Example sentences of "what [adv] [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wycliffe was not usually so curt with the press , but he was at a stage in the case when he wanted to be left alone to mull over what he knew and to decide what more he needed to know . |
| 2 | And at once they had to acknowledge what probably they had known but not wished to push before the other — that physical flutter had been their bond , certainly at first , though by now there were other more convenient linkages ; for they found each other very beautiful , very desirable . |
| 3 | There 's an old saying do n't get mad , get even , and the only way we 're gon na get even with this government and we have to learn a lesson from history , is to do to this government what unfortunately we had to do in nineteen seventy nine and if any government deserve to be taken on , then it 's this Tory government . |
| 4 | Waiting outside the room , Seb could hear the occasional moan of distress from his mother and he wondered what else they had discovered . |
| 5 | ‘ Needless to say , ’ said Fonda , ‘ they would n't touch it , but Bert Schneider asked what else we 'd got . |
| 6 | W And then at a later date she she would er reassess it and see what else you 'd done . |
| 7 | It was the first time that Rostov had noticed the mutation and he wondered what else he had missed . |
| 8 | ‘ I wanted to hear what else he had to say , ’ complained Tom . |
| 9 | What else he had failed to tell her was that there was a fortune at stake — and that the custodian of it was this Bluebeard , this marauding monster … who , even now , while she was going through the motions of hating him , was turning her body to liquid honey . |
| 10 | His throat went dry after that ; he did n't recall what else he 'd said . |
| 11 | and tennis coaching and do n't know what else he did do . |
| 12 | The effect of this inner sweetness was that I began to sing what previously I had spoken ; only I sang inwardly , and that for my Creator . |
| 13 | I began to sing what previously I had spoken " ( 15.93 ) . |
| 14 | What however he did seek to do , starting from about nineteen-hundred erm and ten , or nineteen-twelve , was to apply the same methodological procedures which he 'd applied in mathematics , to a range of philosophical problems . |