Example sentences of "what [pron] [vb past] [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first day I got back to work , my foreman asked me what I had gained in the last twelve weeks . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | All I knew then of the Luton case was what I had read in the papers and seen on television . |
| 4 | ‘ There was a picture of exactly what I wanted hanging in the salon , ’ says Susan . |
| 5 | She included in her discontent each miscarriage of her own generosity , but nothing was so bad as what she had seen in the farmyard . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | From what she had read in the diary , it seemed any boy with a pleasing face and the latest clothes was in for a good time . |
| 8 | And if she tried to tell her father what she had experienced in the Lodge , what then ? |
| 9 | When she married she had to live in the country and , instead of bemoaning what she 'd lost in the way of concerts and the theatre , she enjoyed what was on offer . |
| 10 | Look at what she 'd faced in the past twelve hours . |
| 11 | Donna told her sister what had happened in Ireland , the information she 'd accumulated about The Hell Fire Club and also what she 'd found in the library in Edinburgh . |
| 12 | You used to have a little book and er the grocer would write it down what you 'd had in the book you see and then you had to pay for it on th at the weekend . |
| 13 | That was really seen as the crowning achievement , keeping your garden clear of weeds — not what you managed to grow in the space . |
| 14 | We would spend the afternoon re-enacting in the parking lot behind the apartment what we had seen in the morning on the screen . |
| 15 | Benjamin replied , and gave a short description of what we had found in the stables and in Southgate 's chamber . |
| 16 | Er we showed him one or two examples of similar sorts of presentations that we 'd had from other railway and outside organizations , er explained what we 'd done in the past , said that we were looking to get something more up-market and more erm professional , which was why we were looking to er er seek er quotes from er g graphics designers , linked in with printers . |
| 17 | If you feel comfortable going in second one of these and these alone , that 's fine by him do what we did come in the first place , you can go in , take your briefcase pop it down there , this says to them , this is where I 'm gon na work from , is that okay with you ? |
| 18 | Show what we loved dissolving in the skies . ’ |
| 19 | But the real the real glorious irony I think that cheers up erm psephologists like me , political analysists , is that in those May elections the Conservatives did dramatically well compared to what they 'd done in the general election . |
| 20 | By the fifth week , La Croix was linking names of bishops with the general gist of what they had said in the debates : its editor had the good fortune himself to be a peritus . |
| 21 | What they had heard in the yard and what they had seen upon investigating — spilled crates they attributed to rutting cats — would not be revealed until morning . |
| 22 | They wanted to present a collage of what they had discovered in the format of a modern day local radio programme . |
| 23 | A spokesman for the regional prosecutor in the central city of Lodz said all officials there knew about the law was what they had read in the papers . |
| 24 | They did n't know much but they told you what they did know in the most cryptic way possible to whet your appetite and make you speculate . |
| 25 | The undergraduates of Magdalene used to say about their Master that he spent the morning doing nothing and spent the afternoon writing about what he had done in the morning . |
| 26 | She frowned ; she might be prepared to forget the past to help the work situation , but she had no intention of letting this man think she had forgiven what he had done in the past . |
| 27 | Now , contrary to what he had said in The Economics , he acknowledged that this exchange could only be effected via market relations , i.e. ‘ petty-bourgeois economy ’ . |
| 28 | Saad 's family rushed to try and have their revenge on the witness who had announced the news like someone possessed , and who cared less about Saad 's death than about convincing the whole community of what he had seen in the hut that burning noonday . |
| 29 | He could hardly believe that she was letting him go , that he was not to be punished for what he had witnessed in the best room in the middle of the night . |
| 30 | On impulse , Charlotte stopped to look at what he had added in the ‘ Remarks ’ column , and laughed . |