Example sentences of "what [pers pn] [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got up the anchor , rowed what I estimated to be about five yards , and then let go the anchor again , and peered ahead . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Wealth , rank , life itself then seemed cheap to me , compared with the interests of ( what I believed to be ) the truth , and the will of my maker . |
| 4 | I saw it as a choice of what I believed to be my obligations , how I see motherhood . |
| 5 | ‘ Despite what I thought to be a clear understanding on the part of their coaching staff , the Republic 's squad that played against us in the St Patrick 's Day match in Enniskillen , was too old and too experienced . |
| 6 | In a speech at Leicester last Friday I stated what I took to be a constitutional axiom : ‘ All the public utterances of the sovereign , ’ I said , ‘ are covered by the advice of ministers . ’ |
| 7 | Shiny new BMWs were lined up for sale on the forecourt of what I took to be a condemned block of woefully austere flats , with a dilapidated factory next door . |
| 8 | What I took to be failures were not my failures but simply where I failed to fit in with what others expected of me . |
| 9 | He gave orders in what I took to be the local dialect . |
| 10 | In particular , whereas I had fairly strong evidence that one particular set of rules , the bureaucratic format as I called it , was standard in NHS consultations and common in the American consultations on which I had data , what I took to be a further distinct mode , the ‘ charity ’ format , was used by only one of the American doctors in the study . |
| 11 | I was glad to find the original material in what I took to be splendid condition , still clearly bearing the marks of the sculptor 's chisel . |
| 12 | But nothing can take away the pleasure that I derived from looking at what I took to be a photograph . |
| 13 | I found what I took to be high water mark with my feet rather than my eyes . |
| 14 | I sat with a cup of coffee on my lap , still half-asphyxiated by what I took to be Neapolitan warmth . |
| 15 | At one point , Paul Fox the managing director of BBC TV threw forth into the welter of conversation what I took to be the following line : ‘ Well , what do we all think of yesterday 's historic meeting , eh ? |
| 16 | Almost immediately , the birds in the angsana responded by flying out in a flock , showing what I took to be anxiety by sinking to the ground and then rapidly rising again . |
| 17 | She looked at me with what I took to be concern . |
| 18 | I also found what I took to be a sporting pistol , with a beautifully engraved silver stock . |
| 19 | She was grotesquely dressed in what I took to be nothing more than the two sheets that had covered her on the bench , clumsily knotted about her vast frame ; perhaps because of that , there was something poignant in those androgynous movements parodying grace . |
| 20 | But at the time I was so excited by my good luck that I forgot what I owed to Joe . |
| 21 | I had achieved what I came to Peru to do and , more than I could realise , this was to be the end of something . |
| 22 | I 've made a complete fool of myself and I do n't think I can bring myself to ask what I came to . " |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been playing Jimi 's stuff live for about fifteen years , now , ’ says Hansen , ‘ but The Ventures was what I listened to first , then it was The Stones and The Beatles . |
| 24 | It had a title which was not the most inspiring one I had heard in what I presumed to be my life , but told of the one man who had a great impression on me . |
| 25 | Early in 1975 , when the condition of her health — she had had a recurrence of cancer — was obviously very serious , Elizabeth wrote to me about the letters , requesting the destruction of her own after her death , and asking what I wished to be done with mine . |
| 26 | Then I provided what I hoped to be the optimum conditions for healthy growth — perfect drainage . |
| 27 | ‘ That 's what I said to your Dad but he would n't hear of it . ’ |
| 28 | What I said to you was nothing but the truth . |
| 29 | ‘ It was exactly what I said to Kathleen when she was so worried about you in hospital . ’ |
| 30 | Let me repeat what I said to Marketing Week ; that no woman needs a special washing substance for her vulva . |