Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] what the " in BNC.
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| 31 | and after about ten minutes I thought what the devil is she doing in there ! |
| 32 | and all that ruddy stuff , , I knew she 'd come along and put all , use to be a , he was the R S A man for the Signals and old Reggie , he was another R S A , he was headquarters company and old was in the cable laid section for people you know , came loose , I was walking through the shed and these two , I saw these two put them down , and I thought what the hell are you doing here ? |
| 33 | Was it Monday , no it was yesterday , I was in the loo and I could hear this paper being ripped and I thought oh they 've got one of my club catalogues , I did n't think any more of it and then I could hear Joseph going weee , I thought what the devil 's he got , so went out , Joseph has got the flying circus bus that was meant for Charlotte and him and , Brenda and Charlotte was sharing the , the , garage thing that I 've brought so I thought well now it 's out , well they 're not going to keep all that till I said to him whatever is Father Christmas going to say , I said he 's supposed to be taking these away to bring I said er , what 's Father Christmas gon na say ? , no Ben forget , so I thought while they 're out I could see Joseph 's playing a lot , way with this bus thing , he was having a whale of a time , he thought that was great , so I said to Charlotte I said do you like that bus ? |
| 34 | I thought what the bloody hell 's all this |
| 35 | And I I said , he said ooh yes , the two girls come the alley on their own this is the their birthday cake ma , and I really jumped I said , cos we were right in the front , I thought what the hell 's he doing ! but what they were dressed in and she said , so I said , oh yeah well I did n't like it that I do n't know what 's wrong cos all the time they did . |
| 36 | I thought what th , I thought what the fuck is he doing ! |
| 37 | He said yes Mrs well then he followed me in the kitchen , stood behind me and I thought what the hell 's he hanging about for , I 'm gon na take it to him and the , his son- in-law was there |
| 38 | I thought what the bloody hell 's he doing this for ? |
| 39 | ‘ ’ Then I remembered what the Lord had said : ‘ John baptised with water , but you will be baptised with the Holy Spirit . ’ |
| 40 | Plus I learned that you know from from our group reading of my play the other week , I learned what the function of a director was because you know obviously I should n't have given you all your parts to read for a week to sort of work out what the inflection should have been . |
| 41 | well it 's the next door neighbour and they said it 's alive and I asked Jayne cos I said what the , hospital , yeah cos like it , it 's that neighbour , well it 's a neighbour |
| 42 | I said what the does your old man . |
| 43 | I wondered what the Guardian headlines would be on the day of the Second Coming . |
| 44 | For years I wondered what the hell all the fuss was about . |
| 45 | I wondered what the place with towers and searchlights had been that we passed in the night . |
| 46 | ‘ I wondered what the belly button was for , ’ I said . |
| 47 | I wondered what the reaction would be , if any . |
| 48 | I wondered what the hell was going on and I suddenly felt absolutely terrified . |
| 49 | They both looked thoughtful , heads side by side at the open oven door , while I wondered what the chances were of both heads fitting — and jamming — inside and the door safety-catch somehow short-circuiting . |
| 50 | I wondered what the chances were of bedding the girl . |
| 51 | As we walked out arm in arm , under the high timber roof , I wondered what the future held in store |
| 52 | Erm number of projects meetings er was n't er was n't completed , and the boxes at the bottom er but er planning permission was erm ticked as a constraint er I wondered what the basis was behind that , for ticking it ? |
| 53 | I wondered what the hell he meant , and I 'm still not sure . |
| 54 | I wondered what the bloody hell was going on , I really did . |
| 55 | I wondered what the hell she wanted . |
| 56 | Fuck it I wondered what the bloody hell that was ! |
| 57 | Yes , in one five , erm they 're practising notes from Eynsham it does happen to be in Cherwell ward and not North ward , erm there is a booklet out about health and housing in Cutteslowe , and I wondered what the connection between , you know , not being on this committee , but these health action areas , and what in fact is happening in housing , because the director did assure me that other wards were going to be treated to the same erm treatment . |
| 58 | Its 1,900-page report covered ( i ) the months after the September 1973 military coup against the left-wing Allende government ; ( ii ) the mass terror of 1974-77 carried out through the National Intelligence Directorate ( DINA ) secret police , which provided what the report called " central co-ordination revealing a will to exterminate a category of people … [ to whom the regime ] attributed a high degree of political dangerousness " ; and ( ii ) the post-1977 period of institutionalized repression . |
| 59 | We came at last to his office which was basically a roomette like my own : that is to say , it was a seven-by-four-foot space on one side of a central corridor , containing a washbasin , a folding table and two seats , one of which concealed what the timetable coyly called ‘ facilities ’ . |
| 60 | ‘ Under the shadow of the very great crisis ’ , Lyle argued at the North West Ham Conservative Club , ‘ nobody knew what the result might have been ’ : |