Example sentences of "[vb infin] [Wh det] [vb past] " in BNC.

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1 The fields were spread thick with buttercups and the may blossom which had been particularly plentiful this year was beginning to turn and fall .
2 Forresters first was after a ball dinked over to White on the right hand side of the box ( facing goal ) , he hooked it over his shoulder — square to about the pen spot and forrester did a flying scissor-kick/volley which flew into the net .
3 If I went there I should n't know which bit to aim for .
4 Homoeopathy did not help him either but at his third visit he commented that he did not know which came first , his sinus problem or his depression .
5 I mean she di did did demonstrate which left she meant .
6 He knew he must buy what meant something to her , however ugly .
7 ‘ I would appreciate it , if you would describe what happened , ’ Bragg said earnestly .
8 In summary : ‘ I stimulate you to think about how you are going to achieve agreed objectives ; later we 'll explore what happened and whether you need any help to improve further , or merely some new objectives . ’
9 Still , something was expected and hoped of me there ; I was credited with a future , and I called some fondness into being , even though this was because they did not know what lay under my surface .
10 And though Tutilo did not yet know what lay in store for him , nevertheless he could not be quite sure this apparently joyous return would be the end of it .
11 Do you know what caused that ?
12 ‘ We still do n't know what caused my husband to pass away .
13 ‘ We did n't know what caused it .
14 This was said to me a year after the announcement at the press conference when Fleischmann and Pons still did not know what caused the heat .
15 ‘ We just do n't know what caused the fire and our scenes of crime officers are still investigating . ’
16 They but they do n't know what caused that fire er they reckon it was an electrical fault from the generator that er supplied the it was a s a fifty watt bulb in each room and there was mainly for the radio .
17 I was so incredibly stupid I still do n't know what got into me . ’
18 Do n't know what got into her to bring home such a guttersnipe . ’
19 ‘ I do n't know what got into me .
20 ‘ I do n't know what got into me .
21 ‘ I do n't know what got into John and I do n't know why he attacked me .
22 Is not social work the application of skills picked up in the ‘ University of Life ’ and do we not all know what deprived infants and troublesome adolescents need ?
23 ‘ Do you know what made him steal from his employer all those years ago ? ’
24 It would be disingenuous , even for those of us who take another view , to pretend that we do not know what made an intelligent British traditionalist like Enoch Powell call for a halt to mass immigration some 20 years ago , and what made British governments of both parties follow his lead .
25 Oh , I do n't know what made me do that , rotten thing to do , that was .
26 For several seconds I do n't know what made me wake up .
27 In fact I do n't know what made me think he was that way in the first place — unless it was you , of course , leading me off the trail !
28 She did n't know what made her say it but she felt proud , a lovely , running excitement went through her , like water .
29 I do n't know what made me look in the bag , but it were n't .
30 They led into the forest ; after that she did not know what became of them .
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