Example sentences of "what [noun] [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were plate-glass windows on three sides of the office … and what Cardiff saw through those windows brought him to a halt . |
| 2 | In all these ways the place was perfectly suited to what Ramsey needed at that moment . |
| 3 | He had found it and endured it , but it had opened his eyes to what apprenticeship meant under another master than Adam . |
| 4 | What Tolkien took from that passage ( and others ) was , in short , the ideas that elves were like angels ; that they had however been involved in a ‘ Fall ’ ; that their fate at Doomsday is not clear ( for men ‘ shall join in the Second Music of the Ainur ’ , elves perhaps not , S , p. 42 ) , that they are associated with the Earthly Paradise , and can not die till the end of the world . |
| 5 | Lucien was unsure what Mandru meant by these remarks . |
| 6 | I do n't want vast numbers of rare and special tropicals in the tank ( on this occasion ) but do want to indulge my taste for shoals of fish , which is what nature intended in most cases but rarely happens . |
| 7 | What Jesus meant by this answer was : |
| 8 | Towards the end of the novel , the narrator records : " What Antoine needed at that time was to find someone capable of proving to him that his past was worthy of being admired , that it contained elements worthy of gratitude and friendship . " |
| 9 | The Hatherley ball to raise money for a hospice charity had become an important even ; in Gloucestershire because Ayling did what people craved on such occasions : he brought them the rich and famous whom they usually saw only on their television screens or in their newspapers . |
| 10 | What reality lay behind this piece of youthful bombast — written when Joyce was still only sixteen — proved no more than a little amateur gathering of information by a schoolboy in association with other schoolboys . |
| 11 | What Lorentz liked about this dramatization of the notorious Düsseldorf sex murderer was that it had all the feel of a newsreel for ‘ there is no acting in the picture … . |