Example sentences of "[vb past] [that] what [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Wickham had let it become obvious that important parts of his story did not coincide with the version supplied by the only other person on the spot but Tavett maintained that what he said was correct . |
| 2 | He returned to the living-room and found that what he had taken to be a cupboard door , in fact gave access by a flight of stairs to the shop . |
| 3 | Paris , unlike the journey , had its disappointments , though she realized that what she principally disliked was the position from which she was viewing it . |
| 4 | As he was a brilliant classical scholar , it is possible that he realized that what he had discovered was in line with one of Hippocrates ' systems , formulated so many centuries before . |
| 5 | " Not far now , Hlao-roo , not far now , " he kept muttering , until he realized that what he said had become meaningless , a mere refrain . |
| 6 | Finally , he realized that what he really felt was fear : not for her safety , but fear that she might have gone out of his life . |
| 7 | Pascoe realized that what he 'd heard in the voice on the phone had n't been age , but sickness . |
| 8 | He realized that what he was about to attempt was fraught with dangers , for Bernice and for himself . |
| 9 | I think he realized that what he might call the party of reason , that 's to say the party of those who do n't see things in terms of ideological shibboleths , but in terms of the long-run interests of humanity , ca n't become a party of action . |
| 10 | She and I agreed that what we really envied them for was the power of crying when they are bored or , as an extreme measure , being sick . |
| 11 | ‘ IT IS time trade union leaders realised that what they perceive as power merely prolongs their political impotence and deprives their members of a telling voice in the corridor of power . |
| 12 | Now , when he allowed her so much of his time , she realised that what she had felt before was but a poor shade of the real thing . |
| 13 | But by now she realised that what she really wanted to do was act ( she chose drama at high school to get out of English ) . |
| 14 | But once I 'd had a chance to calm down a little I realised that what I wanted was you . |
| 15 | Then you walked into my life , and I suddenly realised that what I had felt for Claire may have been sexual attraction , but it was never love . ’ |
| 16 | She soon realised that what he had said was true : taste and style were inborn . |
| 17 | The plaintiff , in an action under the Factories Act 1961 , s. 14 , was held to have been 100% contributorily negligent after he admitted that what he had done had been extremely foolish . |
| 18 | While recognizing that poor local economic management was partly to blame for the region 's debt crisis , the report argued that what it described as the banks ' irresponsible lending practices meant they should also share responsibility and assume greater losses . |
| 19 | We believed that what we were doing did n't infringe on the characters of any group of people , and therefore we had a clear mind . |
| 20 | They each believed that what they were doing was vital for the betterment of the world as each saw it and neither would give way to the other , or defer in any way to the other 's claimed priority in attention , preference or responsibility . |
| 21 | Mrs Abigail , similarly affected , believed that what she 'd been dreading all day had now come about : the parents of some child had arrived at the bungalow . |
| 22 | The jury , however , does not ask whether the accused believed he was acting with the relevant state of mind , but under the Theft Acts as well as offences of fraud the jury must acquit if the accused believed that what he did was not dishonest by the standards of ordinary decent people . |
| 23 | And though Douglas on the surface was more generous , more giving than his sometimes taciturn elder son , Shiona recognised that what they shared in common was that fierce individuality and sense of purpose that had brought Douglas , through his own efforts , from rags to great riches . |
| 24 | Five years later , in Watch Out Kids the future It staffer Mick Farren noted that what he had seen there , that night , was more than a new rock ‘ n ’ roll show , it was ‘ the germ of a new way of life ’ . |
| 25 | It seemed that what they wanted most was facilities . |
| 26 | However , on Jan. 7 Russian Federation President Boris Yeltsin declared that what he called the " budget war " was not over , and that although his republic had agreed effectively to increase its contribution to Rbs78,000 million by funding specific all-union programmes , the central government was still demanding an additional Rbs27,000 million . |
| 27 | The defendants claimed that what they were doing was in furtherance of their dispute with the provincial newspapers . |
| 28 | Although , she reasoned realistically , if he had been fooling around behind her back it indicated that what he felt for her fell very far short of love , in which case he would probably have cancelled the wedding if she had n't . |
| 29 | She had not tried , as yet , to see beyond today ; she sensed that what she saw when she did lift her eyes might well be a void , and as bleak as winter ice . |
| 30 | I consulted the programme and discovered that what I was regarding was the rose garden of an English country house , circa 1922 . |