Example sentences of "[vb past] what [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then I provided what I hoped to be the optimum conditions for healthy growth — perfect drainage . |
| 2 | The playwright St John Ervine was standing nearby and described what he saw to the Daily Mail : |
| 3 | Bunny buried his face in his beer and I only just caught what he said over the noise from the band . |
| 4 | This technique not only combated the problem of contrast , which autochrome plates did not handle very well , but it also created what he described as a wonderful three dimensional effect when projected . |
| 5 | This technique not only combated the problem of contrast , which autochrome plates did not handle very well , but it also created what he described as a wonderful three dimensional effect when projected . |
| 6 | This was to be his most important contribution towards the new Foreign Office , but throughout the whole campaign , he unswervingly pursued what he considered to be the ideal solution to the problem . |
| 7 | Jaq noted how wistfully Grimm regarded what he rated as gourmet ambrosia disappearing into the monster 's maw remorselessly . |
| 8 | Theodora reviewed what she knew about the Society of St Sylvester . |
| 9 | American dowsers Terry Ross and Sig Lonegren found what they described as ‘ energy leys ’ : these were also dead straight , could be dowsed , and might or might not correspond to an actual physical ley on the ground . |
| 10 | I found what I took to be high water mark with my feet rather than my eyes . |
| 11 | I also found what I took to be a sporting pistol , with a beautifully engraved silver stock . |
| 12 | In 1625 , after a considerable search , he found what he wanted in the depopulated — indeed almost uninhabited — village of Little Gidding in Huntingdonshire , about three miles from the Great North Road . |
| 13 | Oh , ’ she added , ‘ except that somehow I never mentioned what I got from Dad . |
| 14 | ‘ There is apparently some great defect in our system , ’ concluded Khrushchev from his pensioner 's park bench as he compared what he saw of the capitalist West with the shoddy goods , poor food and massive waste of the supposed workers ' paradise . |
| 15 | Do you know , I have never yet found anything which closely resembled what we discovered in his mouth . |
| 16 | They protested that the labelling of SM as fascist trivialized the real fight against fascism , and condemned what they saw as the policing of sexual identity by LASM . |
| 17 | Indeed , Eleanor Rathbone condemned what she viewed as the selfishness of middle class women who , having got ‘ all they wanted for themselves out of the women 's movement when it gave them the vote , the right to stand for Parliament and the local authorities , and to enter the learned professions ’ , then sat back . |
| 18 | In a letter to The Scotsman , James Hood , the MP for Clydesdale , condemned what he described as the media 's continued barrage of attacks on Mr Clarke . |
| 19 | The Supreme Court rejected what it characterised as the ‘ extreme position ’ that the Convention was exclusive and mandatory . |
| 20 | Conditioned to observe , she noticed what it did to her ; the feeling of vigour , the brisker step , the tendency to be nice to others , to talk to those whom one usually avoided . |
| 21 | Many people believed what they read to be the literal truth : it was even dangerous to use humour at times , because the underlying point was often missed and the joke taken seriously instead . |
| 22 | This annoyed me ( I still believed what I read in the papers ! ) . |
| 23 | DAVID FEHERTY played what he considered to be the best golf of his life in the BMW tournament in Munich yesterday , thanks largely to a tip from a friend . |
| 24 | The five of us ate Jonjoli ( which tasted like seaweed with onion ) and chips and drank lots of Russian Manavi wine and chatted to several rowdy locals , who gave us bunches of flowers and told what they thought about living in Georgia . |
| 25 | The judge was satisfied he told what he believed to be the truth about his fear for his own safety and his shock and horror at the suffering and death of many men , some of them friends . |
| 26 | ‘ I adopted what I conceived to be a classless accent , ’ he said , ‘ as that is what I thought Byron ought to be and that is what I am . |
| 27 | The problems began when Mr Major and Northern Ireland Secretary of State Tom King , negotiated what they believed to be the best deal for the taxpayers and Shorts . |
| 28 | When Beveridge addressed the different primary causes of need he distinguished what he saw as the ‘ problem ’ of age from the needs created by disability : the former being concerned with retirement from work as a result of age and the latter concerning the inability of a person of working age to work as a result of illness or accident . |
| 29 | Others opposed what they considered to be the " insultingly low " compensation package offered by the USA . |
| 30 | He recalled what he knew about them , that their father earned a precarious living as a painter whose innocuous , prettified watercolours were sold in cafés and tourist shops along the coast and that their mother had been desperately ill with cancer . |