Example sentences of "'s what [pron] [vb past] [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's what they told me , ’ said Scarlet . |
| 2 | ‘ That 's what they told me , anyway . ’ |
| 3 | At least that 's what they told me , it could be sheer bull . |
| 4 | Well that 's what they told me anyway . |
| 5 | That 's what they told us to do at school — ask a policeman if we 're lost . |
| 6 | That 's what they told us ! |
| 7 | Well that 's what they told us , |
| 8 | No , I think that 's what they told you to take Oh , how often you expect me to write to you . |
| 9 | Yeah that 's that 's what they asked me . |
| 10 | It 's what they baptized her at the Foundling Hospital . ’ |
| 11 | That 's what they led us to believe anyway , even if they were the ones who had most of the food and clothes . |
| 12 | Yeah well that 's what they said we could do that . |
| 13 | That 's what they said it is . |
| 14 | Well , that 's what they gave me . |
| 15 | That 's what they bought it for ! |
| 16 | ‘ Well , I was brought up in that orphanage in Dalston , and that 's what they called me there . |
| 17 | The police think that the prowler — that 's what they called him , not me — was disturbed and made off across the car park . ’ |
| 18 | Fair Isle , that 's what they called it . ’ |
| 19 | That 's what they called it , the nurse , the woman doctor , the technician : the real world . |
| 20 | And we had people coming back after they 'd actually done their run out there saying , Do you want any help with I mean that 's what we asked them for |
| 21 | In the garage , yeah that 's what we did we |
| 22 | so she said I , I went in and I said to Geraldine I 'm going I owe you any bloody money take the bugger out me wages , she says I ai n't having people that I like being stabbed like that by people like that , she said she ai n't worth the salt of the earth , she 's the salt of the earth she said with people like that pointing to Jenny and Jane , no way , she said and I 'm going with my mates , I turned round and the next thing Janet and Janet and Barbara in there , when we got up the pub at twelve o'clock , course we were all having sandwiches me and Pam got the , me and er Barb got there , then Pam come in then a few more come and erm then the plumber and all that come in with them and I said oh girls we never clocked out , so I said oh well I 'm gon na have to take my key back to Steve , burst out laughing , so I said oh no I said why do n't we have a key cracking competition so of course that 's what we did we all took our keys out of our bag and we went ready for she 's a jolly good ready , steady , fellow , for she 's go and we cracked these ruddy keys and shoved them up in the air |
| 23 | That 's what we rang you to tell you , we 've got a new dog . |
| 24 | Get rid of all the clutter , but that 's what we found it most difficult |
| 25 | But how I know , that 's what somebody told me . |
| 26 | ‘ When I beat Nick for the Barcelona Open it gave me a three-year exemption on the tour but it turned out to be a £90,000 exemption — that 's what it cost me to keep playing until I lost it in 1991 . ’ |
| 27 | It 's what it cost me to help you out . |
| 28 | In the meantime , he was busy talking to Stefan on the radio , at least that 's what he thought he was doing . |
| 29 | I expect that 's what he thought he was going to when you grabbed him at the end of the war . |
| 30 | Anyway , that 's what he thought it was , which was all that mattered . |