Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [verb] what [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | I 'd forgotten what a thin face Dad had got — how old he was . |
2 | I 'd forgotten what a delicious meal tea could be ; and sitting there I felt invaded by the envy of the man who lives in an institution , and has to put up with institution meals and institution everything else , for the rich private life of the established . |
3 | ‘ I had forgotten what a silly little girl you still are . ’ |
4 | Since talking to Anita , my neighbour , about my weight loss and panic about putting it back on , I 've discovered what a low opinion I have of myself . |
5 | Yea , drinking 's always got me into trouble in the past , I mean now I 've thought about it , I 've thought what a stupid idiot I 'd be , so you know if it was n't for the course , then I probably would have gone and done it again , you know , without a second thought . |
6 | ‘ Now I have to know what the latest styles are it 's part of my job . ’ |
7 | This was to be her special torture then : just when she had discovered what a selfish , callous , calculating person Mark was , everybody was going to try and sell him to her . |
8 | For months , back home in Melbourne , she had wondered what The Big City on the other side of the world would look like . |
9 | Once you have decided what the extra staffing and other requirements are in respect of the two conferences , you can work out how much it is going to cost to accommodate them . |
10 | Now you have to have what a European style . |
11 | All this is programmatic until we have shown what the crucial sceptical argument is . |
12 | After Fox 's most successful three-day launch , the best ever non-summer debut , Mr Sherak said : ‘ We have doubled what the first movie earned two years ago . |
13 | In reply , we would point out that , before we can even raise the question of correlation between linguistic expressions and extra-linguistic phenomena , we have to know what the linguistic expressions are , and for speakers and hearers ( even if not for strict behaviourists ) this means understanding them . |
14 | But they have done what no American administration has dared do in living memory — set the scene for a proper debate . |
15 | It does not have to be that he has conceived what the French are calling the coup de force for Miss Jonathan . ’ |
16 | I am sure that he has recorded what the hon. Gentleman said . |
17 | Mr Heseltine can reasonably say that he has done what the political reality required of him . |
18 | He has read what the care-worn pebbles say , and he does n't like it . |
19 | Gradually he and Cora-Beth had grown close again until suddenly , at Christmas , he had realized what an indispensable friend and companion she was . |
20 | He had shown what a little flair might do for the army as a whole . |