Example sentences of "what [pron] [vb past] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That night I watched television and did some paperwork , amending the maps to include the newly named Black Destroyer Hill , writing a brief description of what I 'd done to the rabbits and logging both the effects of the bombs that I 'd used and the manufacture of the latest batch . |
| 2 | But at least I 'd taken the first step , and not an easy step , considering what I 'd said to the doctor at our last meeting . |
| 3 | So , I did what I learnt to do as a working-class woman , which was to justify why I did my work by saying , well of course it is a metaphor for all kinds of struggle , and of course it is , but actually the original reason was n't that at all . |
| 4 | The first day I got back to work , my foreman asked me what I had gained in the last twelve weeks . |
| 5 | He listened to what I had to say about the procedure still to be gone through and hoped that they would soon hear whether Balbinder had a place . |
| 6 | I shall not attempt to repeat what I said then , for repetition makes bores of us all in the House ; I am glad , however , that the scepticism that greeted what I had to say about the benefits of a single European currency has since been replaced by understanding and support in several quarters . |
| 7 | ‘ Then , at the end of the reception , Larry came over to me and asked what I had said to the bride 's father . |
| 8 | Some British colleagues thought it was overweight and underpowered , so after trying a right-hand drive 1.8GL version recently , I looked up with some trepidation what I had said about the car on my voting form six months ago . |
| 9 | After a while Lily began to talk , and I realized that she understood nothing of what I had said about the war . |
| 10 | I understood what I had seen in the dream when I learned the words " gaberdine " and " mahogany " ; and I was born in the year of the New Look , understood by 1951 and the birth of my sister , that dresses needing twenty yards for a skirt were items as expensive as children — more expensive really , because after 1948 babies came relatively cheap , on tides of free milk and orange juice , but good cloth in any quantity was hard to find for a very long time . |
| 11 | Indeed , I recalled the Government 's commitment to ‘ work towards ’ the quality that we were studying , and could not understand exactly what I had envisaged by the notion of working towards the condition of being alive rather than dead . |
| 12 | Some of what I had glimpsed on the afternoon when he excised my acne was his own miniature collection of alchemical equipment . |
| 13 | Having perfected each manoeuvre in the flat water , I could then sail down the estuary to the open sea and practise what I had learned on the waves . |
| 14 | All I knew then of the Luton case was what I had read in the papers and seen on television . |
| 15 | I shall write a long poem about what I saw shining from the other side . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ I do n't know what to say , ’ Farmer Bolsover said to Brownie Owl , ‘ except that I am very sorry for what I did say about the Brownies , especially about the Brownie who climbed my apple-tree for her budgie . |
| 17 | Apart from that , I had said more or less what I wanted to say in a way that I thought Belinda could not fail to admire . |
| 18 | ‘ I never knew what I wanted to do for a living . |
| 19 | ‘ There was a picture of exactly what I wanted hanging in the salon , ’ says Susan . |
| 20 | And all she could repeat was what she had said to the ambulance men . |
| 21 | Actually , what she had said on the phone was , ‘ I 'll drop orf and see the little buggers on my way in . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Your employer ? ’ he said gently , not probing , remembering what she had said on the first day . |
| 23 | Clenching his fists , rigid with rage , Angel advanced on her , translating what she had said for the others . |
| 24 | From what she had observed during the afternoon , ‘ casual ’ was the order of the day . |
| 25 | The older woman had n't bothered to hide her dismay at what she had seen as the loss of her precious older son . |
| 26 | Being cradled against her mother 's soft warm body , Dot tried to feel like a baby , to remember what she had seen through the crack in the double doors as Gloria had cradled Baby against her while the nurses gathered round with protective outstretched arms . |
| 27 | Marian explained what she had seen from the Ridgery . |
| 28 | She included in her discontent each miscarriage of her own generosity , but nothing was so bad as what she had seen in the farmyard . |
| 29 | He sighed heavily , and Belinda was about to ask what was wrong — after all , they were still friends , in spite of what she had seen in the garden tonight , and her revelation of feeling should n't dictate this new reticence — when he spoke at last . |
| 30 | All she wanted to do was yield to it , because it was what she had wanted for the whole time she had been with him . |