Example sentences of "what [vb past] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the unpublished manuscript — a cluster of unorganised memories about Christmas ( and , incidentally , like most of his private jottings , more vivid than anything he published ) — he describes what became more and more the norm . |
| 2 | He was just the bloke in the crowd what came over when I drew up . ’ |
| 3 | That was what came through and that 's what we all deplore . |
| 4 | He was not a fool and he recognized that what came out when Therese opened her mouth was a unique sound that could , if she had continued in her youthful career , have taken her right up to the top , to the international opera houses of the world . |
| 5 | Erm so quite apart from fro from that , this approach to the whole question concentrating on parental investment and female choice would not only make us sensitive to female choice in the sense of either submitting to a male or not but secondly it would make us er wonder what happened even after a female had mated and we could predict could n't we that females ought to be discriminating abou about the subsequent fate of any fertilized erm zygote and indeed there 's plenty of evidence to show that human females highly discriminated and far from passive even after they 've been fertilized . |
| 6 | ‘ People never remember what happened immediately before they got hit on the head , ’ Wexford said cheerfully , ‘ especially when their skulls are fractured . |
| 7 | See what happened overleaf when we went north to practise our own floral wizardry on a few of those bright young Mancunians … |
| 8 | Ad what happened then when somebody died did you hear |
| 9 | Yeah whether or not you whether or not you think it 's been induced by the fact that , that they 've heard what happened in and they think that they can start doing that as opposed to ch as opposed to just saying we 're going to exist by creating |
| 10 | What happened in when you came in with the har what was the |
| 11 | But he was determined to learn from what happened there and put it behind him . |
| 12 | I have far fewer friends and I am partially sighted , which makes me a lot more vulnerable ; but whatever happens physically , I have always said that it was what happened mentally that mattered . |
| 13 | I have far few friends and I am partially sighted , which makes me a lot more vulnerable ; but whatever happens physically , I have always said that it was what happened mentally that mattered . |
| 14 | To my consternation it included the name of Mr Kagan , with whom I was not anxious to resume an acquaintance , not because of what happened afterwards but because of what had happened in my office . |
| 15 | We would have only McGurk 's word for what happened subsequently if I had not positioned my ear by the keyhole of his office . |
| 16 | ‘ What went on while we were hooded , boss ? ’ the Squat asked . |
| 17 | As for what went on after I left the studio at night , I invariably drove out of the car park in a cloud of dust . |
| 18 | As usual , stuff I read on the list tells me more about what went on and what it all felt like than the polished drivel in the papers . |
| 19 | But I 've been surprised over the last erm few years of all these young men erm who have restored this museum who , although were not even born in those years , have taken a tremendous interest in what went on and erm well their results , some of their results you can see here today . |
| 20 | And er er I I could never understand why people that obviously could hear what went on and pretended they never . |
| 21 | and this that and the other but people must have heard what went on and and you know the next morning they 'd see a black eye and just carry out a normal conversation as though |
| 22 | So y y you would n't know about the ins and outs of what went on when they ? |
| 23 | The answers you seek are all buried in your past — if you could only remember precisely what went on when you were younger and you 'd have no problems . |
| 24 | List what went well and what could have gone better . |
| 25 | The program can also improve your performance at interviews by allowing you to record what went well and what did n't . |
| 26 | THEIR opinions are sought as to what went well and , perhaps could be improved ; what went wrong , and should be changed . |
| 27 | But what proved conclusively that too many of the little grey cells had finally dissolved to mush was the fact that I still stayed there after I heard the shooting . |
| 28 | but it just goes on and on and on , over what did so and so said , oh no |