Example sentences of "and what [pers pn] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well , we put the flag up at dinner , and what we got was Jim Charlton , a nineteen-year-old student from Liverpool . |
| 2 | ( Perhaps this was where the first shock to people in the field arose 0 as one said , ‘ we were expecting an all-singing Branson man and what we got was , although he could be very charming , a quiet , distinctly unvibrant and very determined person ’ . ) |
| 3 | ‘ We were frantically busy , ’ said Lois Brown , manager of Waterstones in Royal Avenue , Belfast , ‘ and what we noticed was the rise in the number of people that were making purchases with credit cards . |
| 4 | Dead Poets Society was quite a surprise film treat when we got back to the Farm , but as we watched , I noticed a certain relationship with the storyline and what we had been talking about . |
| 5 | So we re we revamped Neighbourhood Watch , and what we did was er is er instead of going to everyone 's house we have this meeting at the beginning just to discuss crime prevention and er tell people what Neighbourhood Watch is about . |
| 6 | GRANT took Tottenham in 1987 with a 4,141 majority ; he was already notorious for his comments made after the Broadwater Farm riots in 1985 — ‘ the youths around here believe the police were to blame for what happened on Sunday and what they got was a bloody good hiding ’ . |
| 7 | Officers employed in northern Europe , where much of the navy was inevitably disposed , had little patronage at their disposal , and what they got was obtained only after a battle with the Board of Admiralty . |
| 8 | But they knew too little about him and what they knew was bewildering . |
| 9 | What what we must n't do with Honey and Munnford is just take things at face value because what Honey and Munnford did is they actually carried out interviews with a thousand people and what they decided that I mean they carried out interviews with er lots of people thousand and they had a general study where they carried out interviews with a thousand people and what they said was that in particular with the reflector a l some , some scores are naturally higher than others and that what we ca n't do is just sort of look at these and say well this is the highest score , therefore I 'm much more of a , of a reflector than I have of , I am of the other three , all we actually need to do is compare our scores against the general norms . |
| 10 | Coopers ' determination was a brief letter referring to the sale agreement and what they had been asked to determine , and stating the answer : " We determine that the sales amount to £2,527,135 " . |
| 11 | What they pleaded for was further experimentation and what they hoped was that the new techniques and acting styles could be extended to other types of films . |
| 12 | Wives were given a say for the first time , and what they wanted was romantic practicality . |
| 13 | and what they wanted was the easiest ones and they came up with the answer economics Gerald simply , we Ge Gerry and I put our heads together and went bib bib bib bib bib , you know as good parents do and we both presented him with a fait accompli you either take an engineering degree , we do n't care what sort or you go out to work in a bank because economics you will not get a first because you are not reader and t to get a first in economics , which is what you 'll need if you 're gon na make any money out of it |
| 14 | It took months — and the best financial brains in New York — to unravel his dealings and what they found was a web of debt — and worse . |
| 15 | Just before we leave it , er to come back to the nature it 's quite interesting , what these people found was they studied adders in I think Denmark and what they found was adders adders copulate , but females can store semen for months . |
| 16 | And what they did were mostly bills of the unpaid variety . |
| 17 | And what they did was they put a tube from here into the next bit of the stomach , that comes round from underneath there , put a tube across there |
| 18 | Well that 's interesting the Kipsigies are er traditional people who live in Kenya and if they have , in other words er men have to pay a certain amount to the erm you know , woman if they 're gon na marry her and what they did was they study the and related it to the , to the girl that was actually getting married and what they found of course was that it fits the predictions of our theory er just as you 'd expect , given that the cultural things you have to allow for like , like for example in that most traditional cultures they like er women to be plump as we 'll see in the , in the actually fat is critical to female fertility and er so they might not have been plump , so what they did was they simply weighed the girls and they compared their , their , their weights with , with the , with the and sure enough strong correlation the fatter the girl , the bigger the . |
| 19 | So it is a hostile atmosphere and so hostile was it in the United Nations that the Americans decided to cripple it , and what they did was to invoke erm an article which called for the removal of votes from those states who were in , who were in arrears in the payment of their dues , of their , their funds and there were several countries in that category , two of them the Soviet Union and France , and the reason why they had not pal paid their dues was because they objected to the use of the , these funds for peacekeeping forces which had not been authorized by the Security Council , in their argument the Security Council was the , the supreme authority and the General Assembly had in fact not the right to authorize er peacekeeping activities and indeed , if you read the charter , this is the case although legal advice is conflicting on that point as it usually is . |
| 20 | So it is a hostile atmosphere and so hostile was it in the United Nations that the Americans decided to cripple it , and what they did was to invoke erm an article which called for the removal of votes from those states who were in , who were in arrears in the payment of their dues , of their , their funds and there were several countries in that category , two of them the Soviet Union and France , and the reason why they had not pal paid their dues was because they objected to the use of the , these funds for peacekeeping forces which had not been authorized by the Security Council , in their argument the Security Council was the , the supreme authority and the General Assembly had in fact not the right to authorize er peacekeeping activities and indeed , if you read the charter , this is the case although legal advice is conflicting on that point as it usually is . |
| 21 | The body 's centre line and she equated that and what she said was in terms of the hands that people who were open and positive communicators used on average more symmetrical open palm gestures than individual or closed palm gestures non-symmetrical . |
| 22 | She instructed them on what had happened and what she had done , and what she recommended be done next . |
| 23 | I lived in Switzerland for fifteen years and I knew many many people who after having had their children would have breasts implants and , they just felt that they 'd got back the figure that they had before the children and particularly one of my friends she had twins and her stomach was so stretched and after her pregnancy she 'd got all this sort of sagging skin and what she regretted was that she waited fifteen years before she decided to go and have something done and she just felt so much better about it . |
| 24 | Carrie lifted her head and looked at him , and what she saw was a young boy , the same young boy she had known when she lived in the cottage . |
| 25 | And what she saw was a set of strong forceful lines — curved nose , high cheekbones , wide mobile mouth , a strong jutting chin and an implacable jawline . |
| 26 | And what she saw was a handsome dark-haired young man who sat laughing with a girl in a bright green dress . |
| 27 | And what she felt was an instant answering rush in her blood . |
| 28 | I certainly felt more empathy for my mother and what she had been through . |
| 29 | After two years without having felt a man 's arms around her , she was vulnerable , and what she wanted was any suitably attractive and virile male . |
| 30 | While Zen waited for his driver to arrive , his hosts tried politely to find out who he was and what he 'd been doing , but he remained deliberately vague . |