Example sentences of "what i [verb] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suspect from what I heard in conversation from others in other presbyteries is that many of them were in favour of change , but simply did not feel that what was proposed was an improvement to what we have already . |
| 2 | ‘ But I began this without any hope whatsoever of winning the one thing I wanted above all others because I thought it was already given , and what I took in compensation merely made me want it more and resent its absence , because I kept loving you more and more . |
| 3 | what I what I 've in fact done |
| 4 | No , what I 've in mind is an imaginary universe . ’ |
| 5 | When I look back at what I learnt in college I 'm disappointed to think that they did n't teach me more . |
| 6 | In a sense this may be thought to contradict what I said in chapter 1 , where the emphasis was on the evident synchroneity of particular deposits , particularly carbonates . |
| 7 | I suppose what I was asked and what I said in reply will be subject to the ‘ 30 year rule ’ — and heaven knows what any archivist will make of it all in the year 2012 ! |
| 8 | If you did get one , you 'd be permanently broke , which is n't quite what I had in mind . |
| 9 | ‘ It was n't exactly what I had in mind when I asked the council if I could donate some money for a seat in the park ’ |
| 10 | She asked what I had in mind , and I said an informal conversation about the principal events of her life from her girlhood at Glamis Castle to the present day . |
| 11 | ‘ Helping him hire an assassin is n't what I had in mind . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ What I had in mind has nothing to do with sentimentality . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ That was not at all what I had in mind for you , ’ he said , pouring the three of them glasses of champagne . |
| 14 | It was going to help me , with what I had in mind , the fact that I 'd been able to wise him up on that . |
| 15 | ‘ That 's exactly what I had in mind . |
| 16 | ‘ That 's not what I had in mind . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ No , that is not what I had in mind ! ’ he told her wryly , a wealth of sensual persuasion in his deep voice . |
| 18 | I was n't sure there were enough drinks in the City for what I had in mind , but , as the man said , a man 's reach should exceed his grasp , or what 's a heaven for ? |
| 19 | ‘ An exchange is more what I had in mind . |
| 20 | What I had in mind was more along the lines of evolution than revolution . ’ |
| 21 | What I had in mind all along , however , and possibly Eliot did too , was the eventual production of a book . |
| 22 | ‘ This look is what I had in mind . ’ |
| 23 | That 's exactly what I had in mind . |
| 24 | Yes but you tend not to get recycling of housing land of housing , you tend to get recycling of housing land , new housing land from outworn industries , nonconforming use , that type of erm recycling is just what I had in mind . |
| 25 | So our having the tape-recorder is affecting the quality of Mrs Padmore 's life — which , however , has an indirect effect on the quality of our life , given the I think not unreasonable premise that an improvement in the quality of someone else 's life offers us some kind of pleasure or satisfaction , or at any rate spares us discomfort or guilt ; though whether this is what I had in mind when I borrowed the tape-recorder this morning I think unlikely . |
| 26 | ‘ That was n't quite what I had in mind . ’ |
| 27 | And I 'm just trying to think what I had in mind . |
| 28 | Yes , quite , quite , it 's , it 's intriguing because it 's so un so different to what I had in mind . |
| 29 | and she cottoned on what I had in mind Michelle said to her well how will this sort of erm what are you looking for ? |
| 30 | Oh , well air is about a bird I suppose but not what I had in mind . |