Example sentences of "what [pers pn] [vb past] at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ That 's what I thought at the time , anyway , ’ said William , ‘ but I think now it must have been Barry Moxton . |
| 2 | Mr Clarke said last night : ‘ What I said after the meeting was exactly what I said at the meeting and exactly the same as I have been saying since the White Paper was published . |
| 3 | I suppose looking back on what I said at the time it was true and I did really love you and I still do but now it 's not sexual or romantic , it was n't sexual then because my mind was too pure and partly because you were such a huge chunk of my life , one seventh , and I think I always will do n't know what that 's su oh it 's love you I suppose for you it must have been such a small thing and at fifteen stroke sixteen you can probably only just remember me I was fourteen actually I was the middle son who was n't properly blond unlike the brothers and hung around near you far too much . |
| 4 | I would still want to be able to see and buy items of equipment , not to do so would be an opportunity wasted , but I can to my machinery stocklist to see most of what I saw at the show . |
| 5 | He wrote a few letters on my behalf and I just did n't think he was for me because of what I saw at the time . |
| 6 | It had come out and I 'd said it 's what I felt at the minute . |
| 7 | ‘ That 's what I suspected at the time , but your damned gratitude is the last thing I want , Maria . ’ |
| 8 | I come back finally to what I mentioned at the beginning of this chapter as the area of ‘ naturalism ’ more broadly conceived : that is to say , the question of founding human ethics on considerations of human nature , in some way which goes beyond merely respecting the limits , biological or other , on what human beings are able to do . |
| 9 | From what I learned at the meeting I ca n't see why he thinks I 'm up to such a task , but maybe la bête a ses raisons que la belle ne connaît pas . |
| 10 | Now write a description of " What I did at the carnival " . |
| 11 | Just what I wanted at the time , to 'elp me keep me figure tidy . |
| 12 | I did n't understand what she meant at the time , I just thought she was mad ! ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Leaving aside what you thought at the time , and looking back , could he have driven the car to Exeter after disposing of his wife ? ’ |
| 14 | Despite what you saw at the club . |
| 15 | I did not know how he would take all this ; but at the end of the interview he rose and said , ‘ I agree entirely with what you said at the beginning . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , assuming he did n't put himself there , which is unlikely since we know what you found at the flat , someone must have carried him there , ’ Tracey replied . |
| 17 | These are what we took at the museum are n't they ? |
| 18 | Er and it was much easier to be living on the premises , that 's what we felt at the time . |
| 19 | ‘ I need to reflect upon what we saw at the Tower . ’ |
| 20 | That 's why we came out with it 'cause it reflected what we liked at the time . ’ |
| 21 | Well I do n't know it 's just what we liked at the time you know , we liked anything that was considered a bit way out then , you know |
| 22 | No , would you tell me what sort of word it is remembering what we did at the beginning of the week |
| 23 | What they saw at the end fundamentally shocked his system . |
| 24 | It is much more difficult to establish precisely when damage occurred , who was responsible and what they intended at the time . |
| 25 | What they did at a branch on our district erm , again it was just like set up , people were given specific tasks , but at the end of the three month cycle , they 'd change some people , er , those people 's tasks so that they , so they would n't get stagnant , and plus , if one person was off , if you happened to be on holiday , you 've got somebody else that can do the job at the standard and not let the standard fall . |
| 26 | I 've no idea about that what they did at the grave ? |
| 27 | Why had n't he told me what he thought at the time ? |
| 28 | He begins with the mind as ‘ white paper ’ ( following Locke ) , describes ‘ external sensible objects ’ , then records — as , for example , in the ‘ sense of unknown modes of being ’ after the boat-stealing incident — what he felt at the time , and then adds a later ‘ reflection ’ or meditation upon the event from the point of view of the author writing in 1798–1805 . |
| 29 | But skipper Dave Watson revealed : ‘ Tony was disappointed at being dropped and he said what he felt at the time . |
| 30 | But I know what he saw at the time — three mere candle-flames and three mere shadows . |