Example sentences of "[vb past] what [pron] [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She twigged what I was driving at … that I suspected Alain had been murdered … and decided to get in first to throw me off the scent . |
| 2 | Captain Astorre , surveying them all , turned back and caught what they were talking about . |
| 3 | It was not long before Fiver found what they were looking for . |
| 4 | These users were asked whether they had used the catalogue before , whether they found what they were looking for and whether they had any particular problems or would like to make any suggestions for improving the catalogue . |
| 5 | Finally , at one of the smaller institutes , one on the Restoration of Palaces , I found what I was looking for . |
| 6 | Sure enough I found what I was looking for : a concealed pocket inside the quilted jerkin . |
| 7 | You found what you are looking for ? ’ |
| 8 | And as this notion made his mouth curve upward in amusement at his optimism , he found what he was searching for . |
| 9 | Horowitz was not even looking at her : opening his executive case , he lifted the base , sorted through several documents , found what he was looking for and shut the case . |
| 10 | At last he found what he was looking for : horses had stood there . |
| 11 | Kattina was anything but tidy , and she found what she was looking for under a pile of underwear . |
| 12 | There was much more of the same but it was not long before she found what she was looking for . |
| 13 | A quick anxious look behind her and she found what she was looking for . |
| 14 | However , she hid what she was feeling on the subject , and asked the simple question , ‘ How ? ’ |
| 15 | I rather admired what he 's doing for Margaret because , as far as I can see , he 's taking er as she 's not able , as far as I can see , to er exist , to live on her own and he seems to be taking over from elderly parents . |
| 16 | I admired what he was doing with his life from afar and I put the museum on my list of places to experience the next time I was in the Miami area . |
| 17 | finished what we 're saying about them . |
| 18 | At last Hazel heard what he was listening for ; a rabbit — or was it two ? — approaching from the wood . |
| 19 | Perhaps a closer analogy would be with a telescope that misrepresented what we were looking at . |
| 20 | Most importantly , we began to realise that an expert was someone who understood what they were talking about , not someone who had become an expert in regurgitating things that other people had taught them . |
| 21 | I fully understood what she was saying to you the day you visited Kinghorn , which is why I almost burst out laughing . ’ |
| 22 | No one in his class understood what he was talking about . |
| 23 | I could share things with you , I could , you know , the dreams , the ideas , you were one of the people who understood what I was talking about . |
| 24 | The pre-independence newspapers that campaigned for self-government knew what they were aiming for ; their journalists , contributors and backers came from the new , educated élite united by common aspirations and interests . |
| 25 | They knew what they were looking for . |
| 26 | and er he said to himself there 's something I , I , I do n't know what it is necessarily but there is something , go to a specialist and the specialist was very very good you know blah blah blah blah you want some te I want some tests , you know , so I had some tests , you know and the crew that were doing the tests they knew what they were looking for and they either found it or they did n't , do n't know . |
| 27 | They each knew what they were bringing to the project . |
| 28 | They were both young , of course , and neither of them knew what they were talking about . |
| 29 | " Another little Eva " they teased long before the small child knew what they were talking about . |
| 30 | But I think the ingenuity of chemists and scientists and physicists and astronomers is such that , yes , we could do it — if we knew what we were looking for and had the right ideas . |