Example sentences of "what [pron] [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE predicted overspend on the new British Library would have paid for a £1 million public library for every UK local authority , leaving over £100 million for an extension to the British Museum Reading Room with a new underground storage area — which was what everyone wanted in the first place . |
| 2 | Oh that 's what I got in the shop . |
| 3 | Yeah but she 's got more hair than what I got in the front . |
| 4 | What I got in my hand ? |
| 5 | I am sick , sick in my head like you see me yesterday , for what I hear in the night . |
| 6 | ‘ Maybe what I perceived in 1981 was the common sense of a man who was 13 years older — Diana was 19 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He took it up and read : ‘ Many readers will probably have learned by now that I am being sued by Miss Hilary Robarts , the Acting Administrative Officer at Larksoken Power Station , for alleged libel arising from what I wrote in the May issue of the news-sheet . |
| 9 | Here 's what I wrote in the obituary I did for him in The Guardian : |
| 10 | But I 've been in the wood for many years and there is a lot more to read than what I keep in the shaman 's lodge . |
| 11 | ‘ I have decided that what I believed in most of my life was wrong , ’ says the famous Mr Winmill . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | All the police knew of that — was what I put in my book — not a word of praise . |
| 14 | Ca n't remember what I put in the box , another picture I think . |
| 15 | But now this week , from what I put in the paper it 's obvious that we 're traders |
| 16 | I value their silences and self-expression , but what I miss in their faith is the glorious Anglican tradition of choral services . ’ |
| 17 | A silly man , I ca n't understand , cos you used to get in a car now what I went in the car Sunday , well it the |
| 18 | As far as I can tell , we have some sort of unspoken agreement that I keep quiet about not officially existing in return for being able to do more or less as I like on the island and buy more or less what I like in the town . |
| 19 | What I noticed in your picture of the Prince was not his clothes , but the Poppy on his lapel . |
| 20 | He says : ‘ I simply tried to do what I observed in my career in the straight theatre with some of the finest directors , particularly Peter Brook . |
| 21 | I may well know how I would react if I could remain consistently aware of what I know in the abstract , yet yield to the opposite reaction , so that ‘ I see , and approve , the better : I follow the worse ’ ( Ovid 's Video meliora proboque , deteriora sequor ) . |
| 22 | No , what I 've in mind is an imaginary universe . ’ |
| 23 | what I what I 've in fact done |
| 24 | Erm I have one other criteria which I would suggest you 'd need to take into account when considering the general location of the new settlement around York and that is to the need to what I term in my er planning submission , to plan for success . |
| 25 | When I look back at what I learnt in college I 'm disappointed to think that they did n't teach me more . |
| 26 | This chart could then be used as the basis for an essay or a piece of revision and — although the words used might be different — you would , in fact , end up by saying just what I said in that portion of text above . |
| 27 | 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 ! |
| 28 | If there were nothing more to it than this , I would only be repeating what I said in the previous chapter about the persistence of facies . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | If you think you 're going to persuade me to retract what I said in that article , you 're a bigger — ’ |