Example sentences of "[vb infin] what [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This T'ang might doubt what they had done , but not what he was . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , ’ said the courier , ‘ you and your confederates must accomplish what you came to do . |
| 3 | She could see that he was searching for the right words , the very thing that would describe what he had felt , what he had experienced at that moment . |
| 4 | If we were naughty or disobedient the nursemaid would threaten us with this man who , she said , hid at night in the high bushes by the gate , and would know what we had done and come and get us . |
| 5 | ‘ He did once say to me that we did n't know what we 'd got a hold of . |
| 6 | She did n't even know what they had ordered . |
| 7 | Oddly enough , she was n't in pain when she came round , and she said she did n't know what they 'd shot into her , but she felt great and wished she could score some . |
| 8 | Well tha no that was n't padded that was for do n't quite know what they wanted to do with that erm but there was erm a face that was built up with three different sizes of felt , small , next size , next size up , not not much bigger each time , then you had a piece of calico a little bit bigger , you did a running thread all round the outside and pulled it so that it , lapped over the felt which you had stitched down first . |
| 9 | Only then did it emerge that the settlers did not really know what they intended to do . |
| 10 | Er , summat had ran into back of bus , I do n't know what it 'd done to , whatever behind us but it did n't hurt bus . |
| 11 | She did not even know what it meant to adapt oneself to another person 's requirements for the sake of self-interest . |
| 12 | Erm cos I I , well I did n't know what you had planned for tomorrow afternoon though . |
| 13 | Or at least having the decency and good manners to at least let me know what you 'd done ! |
| 14 | Well , we did n't know what you 'd planned for tomorrow ! |
| 15 | You 'd know you 'd know what you 'd had to go through if you . |
| 16 | I did n't know what you wanted to do . ’ |
| 17 | I do n't know what I expected to see , but as always when you have a tooth out or get kicked half to death the change in appearance is nowhere like commensurate with the pain . |
| 18 | How the hell did he know what I 'd said to Colonel Stok ? |
| 19 | I do n't know what I 'd expected to find . |
| 20 | Like that and he started laughing He said yeah , cos he said he 'd got , I , I do n't know what I said do n't say shut up like that and I do n't tell me to shut up like that ! |
| 21 | I did what I had to do in Dublin — you 'll never know what I had to do to survive . |
| 22 | It was strange really because I did n't know what I wanted to do . |
| 23 | I did not really know what I wanted to do with my life most of the time . |
| 24 | So anyway I eventually decided I still did n't know what I wanted to do , but I was aware that the beginnings and ends of lessons were a bit of a mess , so the idea was to film that . |
| 25 | I did n't know what I wanted to do , what direction I wanted to go in . |
| 26 | I do n't know what I envisaged happening once I 'd parted you and Peter . |
| 27 | I do n't know what I did to disturb things , but it was soon obvious I had a blue-green algae problem . |
| 28 | ‘ I do n't know what I did to deserve it . |
| 29 | I do n't quite know what I did to deserve this radical revision in status . |
| 30 | His job now was to let the allied headquarters know what he had seen : that the French had crossed the frontier and that the campaign had therefore begun . |