Example sentences of "what [pron] [vb past] [verb] on the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of what I had glimpsed on the afternoon when he excised my acne was his own miniature collection of alchemical equipment . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Actually , what she had said on the phone was , ‘ I 'll drop orf and see the little buggers on my way in . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Your employer ? ’ he said gently , not probing , remembering what she had said on the first day . |
| 5 | She could have bought each of the boys a pair of trainers for what she had spent on the watercolours . |
| 6 | There were times when the ministry of her Son left her feeling cut out of the action , and she was amazed and perhaps frightened at what she had unleashed on the world . |
| 7 | We were only an hour 's drive from the front and it was quite frightening to watch the TV and see the Croatian coverage of the troubles , considerably more horrific than what we had seen on the BBC . |
| 8 | I was up afford dawn getting all ready , setting the china , both ours and what we 'd borrowed on the trestles in the orchard , helping Gideon to put the casks of beer in the yard , ready for the men to fill their harvest bottles , and fetching water from the well for the tea . |
| 9 | We had a squad and we picked according to what we wanted to do on the day . |
| 10 | No you have to get a bucket of water and flush it with a bucket , what we did have on the sink in the brew house was a a , a about a couple of foot square and on the top of that was an old pump handle , well that water used to drain all the rainwater from the roof all rainwater from the roof used to drain into that well that was sunk in the brewers , so that we could pump water out of the little well , so that we could have soft water for doing the washing , rainwater , otherwise it meant going to the standpipe in the , out in the yard to get your water for washing . |
| 11 | This book , therefore , is not only about how men and women in the nineteenth century faced the hour of death ; it is also about what they expected to encounter on the further shore . |
| 12 | However , the lady in question corrected this error , explaining that what they had seen on the X-ray was actually her ‘ pessaire anti-conceptionnel ’ . |
| 13 | She was telling them what they had watched on the breakfast news . |
| 14 | His sermon on the primacy of Peter ( which mirrored exactly what he had said on the subject in a tract written before he became pope , " De primatu Romani pontificis " ) explored the authority by which the pope governed , the Petrine commission . |
| 15 | Fairley was said to be ‘ merely carrying out repetitive actions , trying to imitate what he had seen on the video screen ’ . |
| 16 | He had arrived in Europe knowing nothing about the European motor industry or the Continent 's political and economic environment , except from what he had read on the subject at Harvard Business School and in Detroit Central Office reports . |
| 17 | as if he were telling the story to someone else , Culley gave him a full account of what he 'd heard on the tape . |
| 18 | He was too tired to go to the window again , and did not know now what he wanted to see on the other side of the glass . |
| 19 | That 's what it had said on the door . |