Example sentences of "but what [verb] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what gets me most is when somebody dies who has n't really lived . |
| 2 | but what gets me down is not the royal bit , it 's the family bit ! |
| 3 | In Leeds … but what had I to do with Leeds now ? |
| 4 | But what had he done ? |
| 5 | But what had he been ? |
| 6 | He was released with a warning but what had he been up to ? ( 1 point ) . |
| 7 | But what had she said about badminton ? |
| 8 | But what had she got ? |
| 9 | Her mother said it was all nerves , but what had she to be nervy about ? |
| 10 | But what had she wanted ? |
| 11 | ‘ Money is my motivation , but what keeps me at the top is that I 'm petrified of losing . |
| 12 | As we have seen the Prague School were also interested in the content of texts as well as their language , but what concerned them was the structure of the content as a self-contained system of signs to be separated out into its different levels , not the overall impression that it conveys . |
| 13 | But what concerned her even more was that the Notice had shown the meeting would include two members of the Secret Intelligence Service . |
| 14 | But what fills me with fury is not only the massive betrayal of the women he raped who will probably be traumatised for the rest of their lives . |
| 15 | Stanley can see through Blanche 's lies and deception but what annoys him is the pretence that Blanche puts on pretending to be better than him and taunting him by calling him a ‘ Polak ’ . |
| 16 | He was not so simple as to believe that the danger would be over when Aldhelm went home frustrated , but what followed he would have to encounter and parry when it came . |
| 17 | But what irked him most were bishops ' meetings . |
| 18 | But what upset her particularly was the last sentence : ‘ I should go and work for a week in one of my shops but — though I could even sleep on the factory floor — I ca n't understand people working in shops . ’ |
| 19 | But what attracted her attention most was the fact that several single flowers — a red tulip , a yellow one , a carnation — had been laid at the statue . |
| 20 | But what attracted him above all else to the magazine illustrators was their subject matter . |
| 21 | But what irritated him above all was the jumble of loose ends he would be obliged to leave behind , just at the moment when he was beginning to see how to unravel them . |
| 22 | But what enabled him to put it through was a high romantic imagination . |
| 23 | But what made him choose to devote himself to mathematics was his finding in 1795 of the criterion for a regular n-gon to be constructible using only compass and straightedge . |
| 24 | She knew he was in a position to do what he wished , but what made him think she would enjoy it ? |
| 25 | But what made him decide to do something about it ? |
| 26 | For a long time I never realised how badly paid and overworked I was , but what made me feel bad in those days was the rudeness and lack of respect with which I and other Asian women were treated by the supervisors . |
| 27 | That was how I wanted it to be , but what made me ache was the knowledge that Jo could n't have all she wanted : to he the writer of stories , whose stories were her children , but heart-breakingly not to have Laurie . |
| 28 | But what made me decide I 'd had enough was when one night about 11pm I was about to climb into bed when the bell rang from the drawing room so I had to slip some clothes on and go and answer it . |
| 29 | But what made her feel even guiltier was the simple fact that , somehow , no matter how hard she tried , she could n't imagine Arnie lying with her in the big blue bed . |
| 30 | But what made it so was the school , and the way the courses were taught . |