Example sentences of "exactly what [pers pn] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He stood at the bottom of the steps and looked up at her so fiercely that she stopped halfway down and felt quite uneasy , wondering exactly what she had done wrong . |
| 32 | It seemed very important just then to remember exactly what she had felt for Anthony at the beginning . |
| 33 | She told him exactly what she had told the police . |
| 34 | That was exactly what she had thought . |
| 35 | That was exactly what she had thought . |
| 36 | ‘ It 's not too late to inform the police , ’ put in Charlotte , pausing to study the other two's reactions and finding them to be exactly what she had expected . |
| 37 | At some unconscious level that was exactly what she had expected six months earlier — to step off the plane and see the man of her dreams waiting for her on the tarmac . |
| 38 | Polly laid her palms against the strong hard face she loved so much , knowing exactly what she wanted to do with the rest of her life . |
| 39 | She knew exactly what she wanted to happen now ; she wanted him to hold her , tell her it was all right . |
| 40 | She knew exactly what she wanted to say but the words would n't come . |
| 41 | ‘ I would tell your mother exactly what she wanted to hear . |
| 42 | Oh , if only she knew exactly what she did want ! |
| 43 | Denice has already decided she wants chicken , but is n't sure exactly what she wants done to it before it 's put on her plate . |
| 44 | You will realise that words of comfort like this can solve no problems for her ; they can do no more than bathe the wound she has sustained , but she will be badly in need of something to cling on to and because they are spoken by someone who loves her they may be exactly what she wants to hear when she is trying to reassemble herself and face the future . |
| 45 | Very early on he knew exactly what he meant to do in art . |
| 46 | Angy had been stabbed in the throat and that 's exactly what he 'd done to her portrait … he was afraid that would all come out and everyone would think he 'd done it . ’ |
| 47 | ‘ I do not live with you , ’ she snapped , which was , of course , exactly what he 'd wanted her to do , because he began to grin the second the angry disclaimer left her mouth . |
| 48 | She would n't tell me exactly what he 'd said . |
| 49 | At that time I did n't pause to wonder if he 'd realized exactly what he 'd taken on when he first became involved with Nigel 's funeral arrangements ; I did later , and often , with deep and loving gratitude . |
| 50 | Until then he 'd been expecting Blagg , and he might know exactly what he 'd left . ’ |
| 51 | He swallowed deeply as Michael Ryan took his hand and shook it , the animal strength of the handshake reminding him acutely of exactly what he had done . |
| 52 | The issue of censorship arose again in connection with a license to print , which he was fortunate to obtain since he knew exactly what he had done . |
| 53 | ‘ You 'll sort it out , ’ he assured her callously as they entered the building , and she suppressed an urge to hit out at him and tell him exactly what he had done and was doing to her . |
| 54 | Unless your doctor were to go to the additional trouble of writing on the prescription that he meant exactly what he had written , and was forbidding the chemist to substitute , you would get the cheapest product . |
| 55 | He knew exactly what he had to do . |
| 56 | And now , to set the seal on this disastrous year , the member of parliament for Frizingley , old Charlie Bowen , who had been John-William 's man and Ben Braithwaite 's man and knew exactly what he had to do to earn the money they paid him , had fallen off his horse — the damned fool — and broken his neck . |
| 57 | His sermon on the primacy of Peter ( which mirrored exactly what he had said on the subject in a tract written before he became pope , " De primatu Romani pontificis " ) explored the authority by which the pope governed , the Petrine commission . |
| 58 | What an irony — the republican ideas they had accused him of propagating were exactly what he had left unsaid , and should have said . |
| 59 | From sketching the outfits she made to inventing designs of his own was but a short step and by the time he left High School he knew exactly what he wanted to do . |
| 60 | To find the information , the pupil had to : define exactly what he wanted to know decide how far he was able to travel to get to a sports centre find out the opening hours , which sports he was interested in and the cost of using the facilities |