Example sentences of "what [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem had arisen because the first plan used had a river running through the property — what no-one had realised was that the course of the river had changed , leaving a piece of land unconveyed . |
| 2 | What everyone thought was the unveiling of an exciting new model , the Chimaera , turned out to mask something much bigger and potentially more significant — the birth of a new V8 engine , the first that TVR could truly call its own . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 4 | But I never wanted it for myself , in spite of what everyone thought . |
| 5 | I proceeded to catch up on the last ten years of what everyone had been doing . |
| 6 | Denis rallied the defeatists with a robust speech : what everyone had said showed how pretentious were some of the demands made by the party for us to interfere here , there and everywhere . |
| 7 | I acted on what everyone had told me I then asked my friend who had a contact in Tesco 's about it she said well there is one . |
| 8 | We knew her and we also knew that she was taking food to a different set of prisoners ; they were beginning to scatter over an increasingly wide area as there was now no hope of an immediate Allied invasion of northern Italy , which was what everyone had hoped for . |
| 9 | After all those years of being told I was fat , I had the evidence in front of me and I suddenly realised what everyone had been going on about . |
| 10 | In the end , he only emphasised what everyone had long suspected that there was not much of a difference between the winner of the championship and those languishing in the back seats . |
| 11 | Mike Atherton the England captain announcing what everyone hoped that Jack Russell is back in the England squad — and back in the team . |
| 12 | Contrary to what everyone expected , urban children suddenly subjected to the apparently healthy environment of fresh air and green fields did not show any marked improvement in health . |
| 13 | ‘ These youngsters were doing what everyone told them to do and that was not to drink and drive . |
| 14 | It was all over in 60 minutes , thus confirming what everyone knew anyway — that Navratilova , at 34 , is still probably the best grass court player in the world . |
| 15 | When the evidence was in , the seven members of the board of education did what everyone knew they would . |
| 16 | Decisions decisions decisions — I 've never made any decisions on my own before , I 've just gone along with what everyone said . |
| 17 | What everyone feared was getting slammed into one of the Pipeline cavities like a golfball into a hole and not being able to get out again . |
| 18 | THE predicted overspend on the new British Library would have paid for a £1 million public library for every UK local authority , leaving over £100 million for an extension to the British Museum Reading Room with a new underground storage area — which was what everyone wanted in the first place . |
| 19 | However , since there had been open and vigorous debate about what everyone wanted , it had been possible for her to exercise considerable discretion on the department 's behalf when ordering , or selecting at book suppliers . |
| 20 | He persuaded [ Charles ] to distribute privileges and public revenues to private individuals for their own use ; and , since he caused to be done what everyone wanted , he reduced the [ resources of ] the state to absolutely nothing " . |
| 21 | This particular comment was too good to be kept secret and so did the rounds of Parisian society , but in general what everyone remembered about these gala occasions was the sheer splendour of it all , to which the guests themselves contributed by the richness of their uniforms or , in the case of civilians , the elegance of the men and the style of the women . |
| 22 | Bigger , better and faster was what everyone strove for , and the latter part of the war saw the early jet fighters enter the fray . |
| 23 | OK , I 'll tell you what I got . |
| 24 | If I end up back there , she might just be interested enough in what I got to say to do some investigating of her own . ’ |
| 25 | I had been told about periods at primary school when I was ten years old , but apart from that , the only information I had was what I got through talking to friends at school , because some had older sisters who had already started . |
| 26 | Well that 's all very nice , very nice indeed , but what I also want is a guaranteed non-stop sex machine and that 's exactly what I got with Jack . |
| 27 | ‘ But what I got out of Jimi is the freedom on the guitar , to show how you feel at the time . |
| 28 | ‘ What I got is an inarck … an inar … culate … |
| 29 | What I got was a group of men who ranged from those with a more developed line on women 's issues than mine to those who were frankly misogynistic , and a woman who went on record as saying that , in her opinion , feminism put women off being lesbians . |
| 30 | THOMPSON : ‘ All I 've just said is that it was not a good enough explanation of what I got and I do n't think anybody has been told , not only to the media out there , myself who is the most important one . |