Example sentences of "[prep] what [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Andrew Jackson got a bit nearer what I thought we were asking for with his ‘ Crazy For You ’ from Madonna in support of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party . |
| 2 | ‘ Not after what ye 've done ! ’ |
| 3 | After what we saw and felt last night , we can not be surprised that Sir Charles died of fright . |
| 4 | After what we 've said about visual support , it might seem perverse to use a video machine without the picture . |
| 5 | Frankly , after what we 've been through together that 's nothing short of childish . |
| 6 | The thing I do n't like about this amendment is it actually moves us nowhere and we can not after what we 've seen over the summer , move nowhere . |
| 7 | After what we 'd been through , it was an absolute pleasure , and many passengers refused to rejoin the plane , preferring new careers mopping up oceans of urine , and scraping generations of dried shit from the walls and little holes in the ground , rather than facing up to any more sticky orange and hostess abuse . |
| 8 | Jan Kern , secretary-general of the DLV , echoed those sentiments when he said : ‘ After what we have heard , there are no more faultless doping tests in the world . ’ |
| 9 | It 's difficult to explain , but a part of me never really believed I should see her again , even after what they told me at the theatre . |
| 10 | But he did n't want to go to the bloody thing , not after what they 'd done to the poor old man . |
| 11 | And the Old Bill came down and found them and nicked us , even after what they 'd said . |
| 12 | Police say the man escaped across fields after what they said was a despicable attack . |
| 13 | ‘ My dad did , ’ was the reply , ‘ but not after what they gone and done to Margaret Thatcher . ’ |
| 14 | The news brought back by Colonel Moore after what they had all supposed was no more than the formal punctuation had almost panicked her . |
| 15 | They walked on , and after what they reckoned to be another mile they paused again and looked back at Dynmouth . |
| 16 | ‘ That half-hearted performance you put on back at the police station wo n't be enough to convince her , not after what she witnessed last night … all your near-hysterical ramblings ! ’ |
| 17 | The police had been convinced it was a genuine accident that took his life ( and that of his mistress ) but after what she 'd been through , after what she had discovered , Donna could not believe that men willing to kill for the possession of a book had not taken the life of the man she 'd loved . |
| 18 | Her head was aching a bit too , but then that was not surprising perhaps after what she 'd been through this evening . |
| 19 | After what she 'd said earlier … ’ |
| 20 | But after what she said |
| 21 | After what she had gone through she knew she could not reconstruct the universe , only recapture her own lost world . |
| 22 | The police had been convinced it was a genuine accident that took his life ( and that of his mistress ) but after what she 'd been through , after what she had discovered , Donna could not believe that men willing to kill for the possession of a book had not taken the life of the man she 'd loved . |
| 23 | Penny left home at 15 and married at 18 , having a baby quickly — and after what she says was a fairly happy period of her life , she began to go downhill fast . |
| 24 | Anne Henderson emerged from Oxford County Court , delighted , after what she described as ’ A week of Hell ’ . |
| 25 | ‘ We do n't want to put her under a great deal of pressure after what she 's been through . |
| 26 | She was obviously shaken , and who could blame her after what she 's been through . |
| 27 | How the hell can I tell her after what she 's just been through , Newman asked himself . |
| 28 | Not after what she 's been through . |
| 29 | Even after what she did ? ’ |
| 30 | After what she did ? ’ |