Example sentences of "what [pron] [vb past] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But I wanted to try to put it right in the eyes of every football follower in the country , and rectify the idea that I was a 100 per cent failure , which is what everyone thought I was . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ These youngsters were doing what everyone told them to do and that was not to drink and drive . |
| 3 | When the evidence was in , the seven members of the board of education did what everyone knew they would . |
| 4 | Well that 's really what I got him so |
| 5 | If it 's money you want , I do n't have much with me , but what I got you 're welcome to . |
| 6 | I do n't know what I married you for , you 've always been frigid — even when Uncle Joe sent that powdered rhino horn from Saudi Arabia . ’ |
| 7 | I will always maintain that I had a good time in service , and from what I heard there were n't many bad places in the Teesdale area — just the odd one here and there . |
| 8 | ‘ From what I heard you say a few minutes ago , you 're not feeling quite so grateful for the job now . ’ |
| 9 | I , too , had seen what I believed I saw and heard ; what I wanted to hear . |
| 10 | ‘ I 've seen him myself , or else hearing about it has put me in a special state of mind , and all the other factors have come up right , atmospheric conditions , combinations of light and dark , what you like , and made me create what I believed I was seeing . |
| 11 | Andrew Jackson got a bit nearer what I thought we were asking for with his ‘ Crazy For You ’ from Madonna in support of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party . |
| 12 | What I thought we might do is to explore this phenomenon a little further , just the two of us together , but making sure we take things very carefully all the time . ’ |
| 13 | That 's what I thought we 'd agreed |
| 14 | That 's what , that 's what I thought we agreed |
| 15 | I hope we were n't discussing what I thought we were discussing on that |
| 16 | The Smiths have this superstar aura about them now which is certainly not what I thought they would grow into . |
| 17 | ‘ Friends , enemies , Englishmen , ’ I began , ‘ hear now the claims of Scotland ! ’ , and for four minutes I spelled out what I thought they were . |
| 18 | Well that 's what I thought myself after you 'd been there ring him then . |
| 19 | Going down the second fairway he told me he 'd lost his yardage book and asked me what I thought his second shot was . |
| 20 | I do n't know what I thought I was doing . |
| 21 | with Mr but what I thought I 'd do today is see how much you 've remembered of one or two of the basic topics . |
| 22 | Maybe what I thought I saw happen to them both did n't really happen at all . ’ |
| 23 | I went to do what I thought I could do the best . |
| 24 | Okay , now erm , today as you realize with feelings of immense relief is the last lecture of the term , so , so what I 'm gon na do , is to start talking about the er , so called black books of Freud , the set texts in this , in this course and I 'm gon na start talking today about the first , and in some ways , one of the most important of these , Totem and Taboo , and since it 's the last lecture of term , and you probably all forget what I said over the Christmas holiday , and wo n't be able to recall it afterwards , through the alcoholic haze , er what I thought I 'd do today , was talk about Totem and Taboo in the way in which it looked backwards rather than forwards . |
| 25 | Well that 's what I thought I was going for this morning as well as that one . |
| 26 | But what I thought I 'd do is like for Ellie and Linda for Christmas presents say , I mean you know it wo n't be a a lot but that 'll be it |
| 27 | No that 's what I thought I was |
| 28 | That 's what I thought I should think dad 'll come home now that he 's gone . |
| 29 | I ca n't remember now , I know I 've had a go to have a look at them to see how , to see exactly how , cos what I thought , what I thought I was gon na do was , I did n't like the furniture of the , of the speakers and when I was keeping that system I was gon na remount the speakers in the box a bit more you know decorative |
| 30 | An O S one to fifty thousand and that 's what I thought I 'd picked up this morning to take with me but when I looked it was Chester and Wrexham so it did n't do me much good . |