Example sentences of "that [pron] [vb past] [adv] what " in BNC.
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| 1 | The wind was high when I knocked at her door , and I heard a voice from within that I knew not what to make of , though it sounded like the lullaby of a Mother to her Baby . |
| 2 | It became clear from talking to parents that I had to see how what they said actually hooked up with their experience , the fine detail of it , and not to assume that I knew exactly what kind of lived experience lay behind a familiar form of words . |
| 3 | It was n't until The Byrds ’ ‘ Untitled ’ double album came out with the liner notes explaining all about the string-bender that I found out what a fool I 'd been … |
| 4 | But I decided fairly quickly that once the reins were in somebody else 's hands , and that somebody knew exactly what they were doing , there was no point in coming back . ’ |
| 5 | But now as she stood looking at herself in a full length looking glass , she could see that she had indeed what the magazines described as the perfect figure , firm round breasts , a narrow flat waist , good hips , a small posterior , and long slender legs which were greatly enhanced by the silk stockings the assistant had carefully rolled on to them . |
| 6 | He grinned down at her and it was only then that she realised just what she had said . |
| 7 | He sounded so fiercely protective that she wondered sadly what it would be like to have a man care for her as much as Roman cared for Berenice . |
| 8 | Incredibly , it was not until she pushed open the kitchen door that she remembered just what day it was and what they were all supposed to be doing . |
| 9 | The third reading , for instance , was slower than the first , despite the fact that you knew exactly what you were looking for . |
| 10 | Then , when we actually visit that place for the first time , a subconscious memory is triggered and we are convinced that we knew instinctively what it would look like . |
| 11 | It may well be the case — as some commentators have observed , perhaps unduly cynically — that the economic and political situation in 1979 was such that it mattered little what the government tried to control as long as they showed determination and resolve to control something ; the money supply happened to be both a convenient and a relevant variable at that time . |
| 12 | Unless your doctor were to go to the additional trouble of writing on the prescription that he meant exactly what he had written , and was forbidding the chemist to substitute , you would get the cheapest product . |
| 13 | He was sprawled in an armchair opposite and the expression on his face clearly told her that he knew exactly what she and Jennifer had been discussing . |
| 14 | He was diffident , seemingly vague , declaring a lack of knowledge and ignorance of education and of teaching , and that he knew only what he had learned through his own work as a painter . |
| 15 | It was important to him , important enough to see that members of his family met her and that he found out what they thought of her as a possible wife for him . |