Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] [Wh det] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I only realised what the problem was when I went to Kenya straight after Twin Cities . |
| 2 | Sharpe told Ziegler what he knew , which merely confirmed what the Prussian Captain had already discovered for himself . |
| 3 | I could make no further headway with the landlord so I made enquiries amongst the other customers : a beggar who whined for alms inside the doorway and a greasy-haired knave , but they only repeated what the landlord had said . |
| 4 | God alone knew what the traffic would be like on the freeway , through the mean streets of Edgware , down to the inferno that was the A406 , on through gloomy Tolworth and Chessington , out to the no-man's-land that was Leatherhead . |
| 5 | God alone knew what the girl did after the golden boy had gone off to sell his 57 varieties , heaven only knew why she could n't get herself dressed before ten o'clock . |
| 6 | I no longer took what the English said seriously . |
| 7 | It was too late not to finish the sentence and she already knew what the sentence meant anyway … ‘ not long for this world — on his way out — dying ’ … words which were impossible to say . |
| 8 | A slight break in the older man 's voice suggested he already suspected what the answer might be and was afraid . |
| 9 | I just wondered what the Queen would say , let alone the duchess 's husband . ’ |
| 10 | The other thing I was interested in was the increase of ele of occupational therapists and I just wondered what the realistic expectation was of being able to recruit them because as far as I know they are a scarce resource er and not easy to find . |
| 11 | Yes , erm very , very quickly , erm I notice that the swimming pool and river bathing visits had more than doubled , I just wondered what the cause of that was , and whether in fact it was mainly related to the swimming pools or to the river bathing bit erm places , and the second one is , regarding the noise , I notice that it has shot up , the number of visits to seven twenty one , but in fact , the prosecution 's only gone up to one , and I wondered if Mr Fenn could tell us whether in fact because of the higher profile that had been given to this erm activity , due to its possible cut , whether in fact more people are aware of it and there were more |
| 12 | I was dead against it , but he always did what the family wanted . |
| 13 | The only person who ever explained what the operation was for was the nurse at the hospital , or I would never have known . |
| 14 | In so doing it also crossed what the Swiss recognise as an ancient cultural frontier which in this part of the country runs not as a straight line but in a curve in clockwise direction , through the Brunig Pass , the centre of the highland massif known as the Napf , and the river Reuss which flows out from the Vierwaldstattersee at Luzern . |
| 15 | Professor Miller , for such he has to be called for identification purposes , was first asked to give a definition of what psychology was , though the other Miller probably knew what the answer would be . |
| 16 | The Hungarians , efficient and courteous , probably knew what the Jaguar and its occupants had been put through . |
| 17 | Sally Jones , the sports presenter , clearly knew what the plural of Grand Prix was . |
| 18 | One of the ‘ street toughs ’ , actually a DEA man , later wondered what the point of it all had been . |
| 19 | Although he now realised what the phenomenon was that he had just witnessed , he found it impossible to digest the truth before his very eyes : Firelight had given birth to a baby . |
| 20 | You erm , very accurately analysed what the problems where with Barbara , who did n't know her job , did n't know who her customers were etcetera , Bernard and Tony . |
| 21 | I often thought what the neighbours that and , you know , and Mrs who used to lived here then |
| 22 | Nina now knew what the expression ‘ squealing like a stuck pig ’ really meant . |
| 23 | For years we plodded on : bought a house , had two kids , never really knew what the other was thinking . |
| 24 | If he really disliked what the beastly troika had done to it , he could have resigned — or , perhaps more effectively , threatened to . |
| 25 | I do n't think we even knew what the O stood for ; perhaps he lied about it . |
| 26 | He immediately saw what the ferrymaster had been talking about . |
| 27 | It is extremely important that the trustees consider their discretions otherwise these may simply be set aside as the deeds of appointment were in the case of Turner v Turner [ 1983 ] 2 All ER 745 where the trustees simply did what the settlor stated without independently exercising their discretions ( see also Wilson v Turner ( 1883 ) 22 ChD 521 ) . |
| 28 | Amiss wondered what the average reader would make of the club . |
| 29 | The document then outlined what the Secretaries of State for Education thought should be the curriculum in primary and secondary schools . |
| 30 | Although he evidently knew what the king had planned , he nowhere states it explicitly , and his silence has left the field to Mancini 's version . |