Example sentences of "what i [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 Look what I got for mother .
2 Daddy guess what I got for us ?
3 This is what I got at erm in Exeter .
4 I had been told about periods at primary school when I was ten years old , but apart from that , the only information I had was what I got through talking to friends at school , because some had older sisters who had already started .
5 Well that 's all very nice , very nice indeed , but what I also want is a guaranteed non-stop sex machine and that 's exactly what I got with Jack .
6 Er that and those are what I got that 's what I got with those and they 're with the parcels di in that envelope so That was to send the catalogue back er the other one
7 I 'll go in with them and see what I got ta get and just strap it on the roof .
8 Oh , ’ she added , ‘ except that somehow I never mentioned what I got from Dad .
9 Yeah which is what I got from my doctors actually .
10 That 's what I got from mine .
11 some celery what I got fresh , I cooked some of that cos that 's what I got from that bloke
12 I do n't know what I got from them .
13 Oh that 's what I got in the shop .
14 Yeah but she 's got more hair than what I got in the front .
15 What I got in my hand ?
16 I got up the anchor , rowed what I estimated to be about five yards , and then let go the anchor again , and peered ahead .
17 Sometimes I get sick when I see what I fought for , ’ Moran said .
18 ‘ He still made tremendous efforts , but he could never get up the courage to criticise what I was doing , which was what I longed for , ’ says Richard .
19 What I deconstructed as distant birds dotted into a sullen sky by a brief wrist declining detail turned out to be — fly-shit .
20 This is not what I bargained for .
21 At least , that 's what I studied at Oxford .
22 ‘ I am a poorer man by some 200 £ than when I came to the Province ’ , he told Gould , apologising for his inability to pay his subscription to Birds of Australia , ‘ and my salary has been reduced to the lowest figure and is far below what I enjoyed as a private Gentleman . ’
23 The development of the HyperCard was motivated by what I perceived to be missing from the literature of the subject : a framework for the study of electronic publishing .
24 ‘ Maybe what I perceived in 1981 was the common sense of a man who was 13 years older — Diana was 19 .
25 There were no school sports and no athletics , just football , and that is what I played for the rest of the time I was there .
26 That 's how it happens , all those improvisational sections coming out — me forgetting what I played on albums and not going back and re-learning it . ’
27 I never met him and , after what I heard about him , I never had any ambition so to do .
28 ‘ Well , that does n't tie in with what I heard about him . ’
29 But what I heard at the same time was the most fantastic application of expression .
30 I could not deny what I heard with my inner ear .
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