Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] [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 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | If I 'd known then what I knew later , the envelope would have gone in with it . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | but I have n't written , erm cos I wanted to check exactly what day you 'd be going before I did . |
| 9 | Whilst I did track down what I thought was the best , several of them , in fact quite a number of them , said " no " . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | When I did find out what he was thinking , I must say I was surprised . |
| 12 | 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 . |