Example sentences of "what [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could n't believe the mild , interested responses — before long I was actually having what amounted to a conversation . |
| 2 | In certain respects , what Hawkes calls the ‘ New ’ New Criticism ’ had what looked like connections with the older version . |
| 3 | I remembered the overweight , middle-aged American couple when they boarded the train ; both carried green backpacks on their chests and had what looked like an assortment of small army hold-alls on a belt around their waists . |
| 4 | It did not have the spines of a bristleworm , having what looked like feathery gills on each segment instead . |
| 5 | But Livermore insisted : ‘ We had no luck at all , particularly when Neil Ruddock had what looked like a perfectly good header disallowed after half-an-hour . |
| 6 | He put the home side on their way with an excellent goal in the first half , had what looked like a perfectly good effort ruled out in the second and caused the Latvians all sorts of problems with his well timed runs from deep . |
| 7 | That 's what done for him . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ Have what done ? ’ asked the child who 'd been listening . |
| 9 | Hairdressers and make-up artists know who 's had what done and where , who 's had whom , when and how , and with what , where and how many times , and in the thirteen years I 've known Lynette , I have never known her betray a confidence , so I tell her what the lump is . |
| 10 | ‘ I hit her with me bag , that 's what done it . ’ |
| 11 | These two coppers takes me ter the office an' the geezer who I whacked told 'em it was me what done it . |
| 12 | Cor , there was boxes of brand new tools come down there , spanners , and they used to be the , like these , like a big chopper , well they used to have couple of all with erm breezed up with erm like greaseproof paper over 'em , bag 'em up into the holds , guns , there was guns , what done with the guns they hit the er , just near the barrel or the trigger , th they used to flatten them out so they could n't use 'em but they all went in the ships bombs , or little shells they used to find in there , all scrap iron . |
| 13 | And I can tell you , it was n't the butler what done it . ’ |
| 14 | I thought she 'd dried it , and she said , oh , I 'm just gon na put this washing on radiators , and then it , it were then that er it made me think , well , what done with her dryer . |
| 15 | and then that was it and then a bit later on , that was all they said about me haircut and then during the break somebody else said , there 's something else gone as well and they could n't make out what it what done mine in , my musical director he come , he says you know what will look nice now with that haircut do n't you ? |
| 16 | Else he did n't know what done , until Davey went and told her . |
| 17 | Have I got all the what done ? |
| 18 | Piers had set up the garden table and two benches , and they had what turned out to be a very edible meal under the fading sun , with a magnificent view overlooking the still blue sea , with all the night noises playing a symphony around them . |
| 19 | Just a bit the men and what shown through them . |
| 20 | It might reasonably be argued that the single most inflammatory portrayal of Jesus anywhere is in D. H. Lawrence 's The Man Who Dies , published more than fifty years ago , a miniature masterpiece in which Jesus is depicted as having what used to be called ‘ sexual congress ’ with a priestess of Isis in an Egyptian temple . |
| 21 | Has what got money in ? |
| 22 | What got ta cut it to thin it love . |
| 23 | As a feminist I wanted these women to stop having what seemed to me to be silly attitudes … |
| 24 | She had had what seemed to be flu , but it had left her breathless , he said . |
| 25 | He had what seemed to me a great genius for — how can I put it ? — drawing the orchestra together and controlling it as a single expressive instrument . |
| 26 | I was emotionally prepared because I had just had what seemed to me then an incredibly traumatic experience . |
| 27 | I had what seemed reliable information that Place had both a gun and explosive . ’ |
| 28 | It was all very well to have what appeared on the X-ray cut out , but no one had yet looked inside me . |
| 29 | Tank had what appeared at first sight to be good credentials , having designed the Focke Wulf 190 aircraft which had given Germany air superiority for eighteen months during the Second World War . |
| 30 | He may have had what appeared to be dreadlocks at the back of his head . |