Example sentences of "[conj] i [verb] [verb] [adv] what " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ 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 . |
| 3 | If I 'd known then what I knew later , the envelope would have gone in with it . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | but I have n't written , erm cos I wanted to check exactly what day you 'd be going before I did . |
| 6 | But I want to know exactly what 's really going on here . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ You 'd better have a good reason for all this , Lizzy , because I want to know exactly what 's going on with you . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 10 | But since I 've realised just what a bastard you are I 'm afraid I 've rather lost interest . |
| 11 | 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 . |