Example sentences of "[vb past] what [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its 1,900-page report covered ( i ) the months after the September 1973 military coup against the left-wing Allende government ; ( ii ) the mass terror of 1974-77 carried out through the National Intelligence Directorate ( DINA ) secret police , which provided what the report called " central co-ordination revealing a will to exterminate a category of people … [ to whom the regime ] attributed a high degree of political dangerousness " ; and ( ii ) the post-1977 period of institutionalized repression . |
| 2 | You erm , very accurately analysed what the problems where with Barbara , who did n't know her job , did n't know who her customers were etcetera , Bernard and Tony . |
| 3 | Lucy Jackson underlined what the NDO had said about using local press photographs and materials being ready before the event to ensure possible publication . |
| 4 | I never twigged what the gold rush was . |
| 5 | Both volumes of the Dictionary passed the censorship ( in 1845 and 1846 respectively ) , but Volume Two was proscribed a month after publication when the authorities grasped what the circle was up to . |
| 6 | I mean he grasped what the word , he grasped the way she taught him and he soon learnt to read and he could retain those words |
| 7 | At Cabinet on the Wednesday morning the Chancellor reported what the Foreign Secretary ( still confined to his house ) proposed to say . |
| 8 | One delegate recounted what an Oxford ticket collector told her . |
| 9 | The report also found what a lot of sexual incompatibility and discontent existed . |
| 10 | So I looked through this device and er found what the reading it gave , so I went to my map and I found that that 's where Mars should have been . |
| 11 | Though deeply Anglo-Catholic he rejected what the world thought of as Anglo-Catholic fuss , a mistaking of the right vestment for the right religion . |
| 12 | She was so busy talking to another woman , who was weighing onions , that she never noticed what the wee fellow was doing . |
| 13 | We can imagine that , if we believed what the Calvinists believed , we would have behaved in the same way . |
| 14 | In the first place developing countries accepted the loans that were thrust at them because they believed what the West was telling them — that it would be possible for them to industrialize , to develop their economies to the point where paying back the loan later on would be an easy matter . |
| 15 | I suspect that he is doing so because he believed what the Home Secretary said when he intervened . |
| 16 | At once they broke off , and in her honour played What a skin , what a bloom … |
| 17 | And er oh she says to m She could n't did n't speak Welsh but she told what the old man told her in that shop there . |
| 18 | I also said that erm my I expressed that the fears that I expressed at this meeting last time about er the fact that Paul and I now supervise civilian staff , er which I 've never been sat down and told what the civilians term of contract are and what I can or can not say or whatever , so erm I feel it will be quite valuable , and brought it for me to see if anybody think it 's worthwhile pursuing . |
| 19 | They told what an excellent trip it had been and how they had sat on a platform in the sunshine halfway across to eat their sandwiches with not another boat in sight . |
| 20 | She estimated what the size of the labour force in the United States would have been in 1960 by making two assumptions : ( a ) if death rates had not declined since 1900 , the labour force would have been over 13 million less in 1960 ; ( b ) if death rates had declined from 1900–1920 but remained the same level after that , the labour force would have been 6 million smaller in 1960 . |
| 21 | ‘ Yet at the same time I imagined what the celebrations would be like at Molineux . |
| 22 | For the first time Clare learnt what a passionate woman 's kisses were like , on the lips of one she loved with all her heart and soul , as Tess loved him . |
| 23 | I jolly soon learnt what a crome was , I did n't ask I waited to find out . |
| 24 | I noted what the hon. Gentleman said in his biblical reference ; it occurred to me that he should be a little more careful when talking about St. Paul . |
| 25 | Thus the BBC 's proposals for Broadcasting in the Seventies , for example , published in July 1969 as a kind of White Paper , provoked what the BBC called ‘ vehement debate ’ and the Annan Committee ‘ a public row of splendid proportions ’ ( Annan , 1977 , p. 12 ) , including debates in both houses of Parliament . |
| 26 | Organized Cadiz radicalism favoured the liberals throughout : from the public galleries the great liberal speeches received what an English observer called the ‘ loud approbation of the public ’ . |
| 27 | Yet in being forced to come to the Commons to tidy up the mess — though splattering egg on the faces of the Foreign Office lawyers and his colleague Tristan Garel-Jones in the process — Hurd confirmed what a few MPs have known for months . |
| 28 | The committee carried out a range of fascinating research and confirmed what the public knew already , namely that the ham sandwiches available in motorway cafeterias had a tendency to be ‘ thin , tasteless ham in soggy bread ’ . |
| 29 | One glance confirmed what the noise had already told him . |
| 30 | Muller helped Natal beat Transvaal 14–13 in the Currie Cup final , and his display confirmed what the Springbok selectors suspected — they have a star on their hands . |