Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [verb] [adv] what " in BNC.
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| 1 | It became clear from talking to parents that I had to see how what they said actually hooked up with their experience , the fine detail of it , and not to assume that I knew exactly what kind of lived experience lay behind a familiar form of words . |
| 2 | This phrase may appear rather vague so I need to spell out what I mean by it . |
| 3 | So it was , the prophecy was written then by Daniel for our , for our time and it just happened in our , because you know er , when he was er , when he finished the book write written and he said I have seen the , the , the erm visions and I 've heard the voice , but I , and I 've written down what I was told to do , but I do not understand and then the voice said to him well close that down , that book is not for you to understand , the generations that it 's written for , it 's written for the end of the times , they will come to understand it , and you see we actually witnessing what 's happening |
| 4 | You present a highly intriguing challenge , Miss Shannon Lea — and I intend to find out what lurks beneath that icy-cool exterior . ’ |
| 5 | You , David and I need to sort out what we need to do to implement it |
| 6 | ‘ He said if I 'd done exactly what he told me , and there were no tricks , he 'd contact me and hand over his evidence , and he would n't bother me any more . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ If I 'd known then what I learned since I would not have lost the job or my place but I simply had some growing up to do . |
| 8 | If I 'd known then what I knew later , the envelope would have gone in with it . |
| 9 | Dana continually hinted that she would take off for London if I refused to do just what she wanted , or if I said anything to you . |
| 10 | And since he obviously had n't recognised me , I did n't want to connect myself with the house , until I 'd found out what his game was . ’ |
| 11 | She knew me as Matt and I did n't want to alert you to who I was until I 'd found out what was going on . |
| 12 | but I have n't written , erm cos I wanted to check exactly what day you 'd be going before I did . |
| 13 | But I want to know exactly what 's really going on here . |
| 14 | The situation has thrown me a bit and I shall be talking to him again because I want to know exactly what 's going on . |
| 15 | ‘ You 'd better have a good reason for all this , Lizzy , because I want to know exactly what 's going on with you . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ And it was six years for both of us , but you 'll understand if I ca n't sympathise with your waiting when it was all unknowing — ignorance being bliss — whereas I 've known precisely what it was that troubled me through all those six years . ’ |
| 17 | But since I 've realised just what a bastard you are I 'm afraid I 've rather lost interest . |
| 18 | Whilst I did track down what I thought was the best , several of them , in fact quite a number of them , said " no " . |
| 19 | When I tried to discover just what was really meant when it was said of a particular girl that she had been " married " in this sense seven times before she was nineteen , I was told that if a girl was seen to be cooking a meal for a man this was evidence that she was " married " to him . |
| 20 | When I did find out what he was thinking , I must say I was surprised . |
| 21 | When I have built up what I want to say , I can send it to a speech synthesizer . |
| 22 | I got myself invited along as I wanted to find out what drove him to travel all the way from Surrey to South Wales nearly every weekend . |