Example sentences of "[conj] i [vb past] what [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although I did what I could to try to conceive a girl , I could n't be sure that I had . |
| 2 | ‘ Not , of course , that I realised what he 'd done then . |
| 3 | ‘ It was only when the doorbell rang and two more couples joined us that I realised what he had in mind . ’ |
| 4 | John , of Pontypridd , Mid Glamorgan , said yesterday : ‘ It was n't until I came to pay for a car at the auction that I realised what I 'd done . |
| 5 | It was n't until later that I realised what it was . |
| 6 | Let me tell the hon. Member for Bolsover ( Mr. Skinner ) that I heard what he said about this matter on Thursday , and I agree with him . |
| 7 | ‘ The truth is that I fought what I felt for you for as long as I could , and even after we made love I told myself that I wanted you , desperately , but that you meant nothing more to me than an object of desire . ’ |
| 8 | I fancied that I knew what he was thinking ; much like what Jack would have thought . |
| 9 | With things like art nouveau and Edwardian furniture , when David started buying them , I went and got books to get my act together in order that I knew what he was into , but with drugs , I did n't know , added to which David was very secretive and for a long time I was n't aware that he was having a problem , not necessarily from cocaine addiction , which everybody loves to tell you is not addictive , but it is in terms of the fact that you rely on feeling up to cope — you just become more and more paranoid . |
| 10 | He must have seen from my face that I knew what he was talking about . |
| 11 | The Guv'nor told me to ride Ile de Bourbon in the big race telling me that I knew what he could do and that win was the biggest of my career so far but I 'll always remember Lester who had finished nearly last padding disconsolately into the weighing room and asking me ‘ Did you know your horse had improved so much ’ . |
| 12 | The difference is that I knew what I wanted and he did not . |
| 13 | Also , I believe I made it clear that I knew what I wanted from a partnership with a sponsor and was precise and convincing in my presentation . |
| 14 | Well , everyone seemed to think that I knew what I was doing with a computer , so the shifts , the picket shifts were left up to me , any facts and figures needed , databases , addresses were left up to me . |
| 15 | It may seem stupid , but it was n't until years later , when we were in Morocco , that I understood what he was trying to tell me then . |
| 16 | Her voice was very earnest , as though it was desperately important that I understood what she said . |
| 17 | He still listened , but now I do n't think he was hearing me , not believing that I meant what I said . |
| 18 | This is particularly noticeable in Between ; indeed she herself says ‘ it 's really with Between that I discovered what I could do with language ’ ( 1989e:83 ) . |
| 19 | It was not until the middle of May that I discovered what it was that had so stimulated my friend . |
| 20 | It was down at Riverside that I had what you might call my first ‘ exotic ’ sexual experience . |
| 21 | I thought when I first came here that I hated what she was trying to do to me and then I came to see that the clothes , the manners , the society , all those things were part of a process , a process to give me enough confidence to do what I liked , not to live in eternal dread of insignificance and error . |
| 22 | But at the time I was so excited by my good luck that I forgot what I owed to Joe . |
| 23 | Immediately I regretted what I had said . |
| 24 | I 'd used dikes , DFs and things like that before , so I knew what I was getting into . |
| 25 | ‘ I had worked in recruitment so I knew what I was in for : it can be a nightmare . ’ |
| 26 | An unusual bird flew past , so I asked what it was — and an inner voice told me . |
| 27 | I remember once we were going to have a lot more crocuses on the way up the drive , and he said , ‘ Look , you decide what you want and I 'll order them , ’ so I decided what I thought would be good , because I knew I had to put them in . |
| 28 | He was angry about the comments , denied making them and I accepted what he said . |
| 29 | The doors were padlocked anyway and I got what I wanted for my purpose from looking at the outside . ’ |
| 30 | Last night you got what you wanted and I got what I deserved . |