Example sentences of "[pers pn] what [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , Gwyneth , is she what 's happened to her mum ? |
| 2 | I tell you what get going to the Wolverhampton versus Notts County with Jonesy . |
| 3 | Perhaps the worst scourge is the thought that you might have listened and might have understood if I had managed to tell you what had happened . |
| 4 | I came to warn you what had happened in case there was anything you … anything you can do to help yourself . |
| 5 | He said he 'd come to ask me if I would be prepared to explain to you what had happened five years ago . |
| 6 | I 'll tell you what does exist though , piecemeal short-termism . |
| 7 | I tell you what did wake me up though John . |
| 8 | Right : No-one can tell you what fish to buy — that 's a personal choice . |
| 9 | LET Doctor Langley explain to you what 's gone wrong at Liverpool Football Club . |
| 10 | So I suggest the secretary rings up the secretary of Fenners do n't say you 're listed in newspapers cos industrial people do n't like that but have a word with Fenners and they 'll tell you what 's gone on . |
| 11 | Er there were some like look here Tell you what 's made the difference . |
| 12 | I 'll tell you what 's happened . |
| 13 | I would say to you that the history of North Yorkshire County is that the house house builders have built , more or less the building rate of planning policy , whatever that has been , and that is a matter of fact , and if and if and if we are in a situation where the market is being fettered , as is the policy , and it 's not a policy which we are seeking to go away from specifically , and it is inevitable that the house builders will build to whatever the policy building rate is , and comparisons of one building rate with another are simply telling you what 's happened in the past , not what needs to happen in the future er in terms of meeting the housing requirement , and quite clearly in any area where you are introducing a new settlement , if indeed that 's the conclusion we come to , er late later on , erm and I hope we do , but if we are introducing a new settlement you are bound to skew the building rates , and the more and more you reduce the area in which you consider what the building rate effect is the more and more that it actually gets skewed , er and erm you know , quite frankly , when the developers built a new estate at the end of my particular street the building rate went up alarmingly in my area , er and er you know , we can go on forever like that , I just think it 's very misleading to just deal with the judgement of building rates . |
| 14 | I 'll show you what , I tell you what 's happened when things . |
| 15 | Did I tell you what 's happened ? |
| 16 | And she said Oh yes I says Well I 'll tell you what 's happened Oh she says My daughter 's a hussy . |
| 17 | I 'ad to hit him with an ornament , and when his fam'ly got back from church 'is wife asked him what 'ad happened to his face . |
| 18 | I do n't tell him what clothes to wear , why should he tell me what food to eat ? |
| 19 | When I caught up with Pottz later that evening , I asked him what had gone wrong . |
| 20 | Seeing the look of pain on my driver 's face , I asked him what had become of Eileen , ‘ The Girl from County Donegal ’ , possessor of one of the purest ballad voices I know , with a hint of Irish mischief . |
| 21 | And Nicol , knowing that by then Sub-Prior Herluin would be in Worcester , said that he would make his way there and tell him what had befallen us . |
| 22 | Over his post-prandial mug of tea I asked him what had brought him north so early this year . |
| 23 | ‘ But — ’ Jinny frowned , not quite ready yet to tell him what had happened to her . |
| 24 | Masha sketched for him what had happened so far . |
| 25 | Somehow , everyone forgot to tell him what had happened . |
| 26 | It came from a scene set in a bar not unlike ours , and was said just after everyone in the bar had turned pale at the sight of a particular young man , a regular , entering the bar after a week 's absence ; the thing was , they were all wondering how they were going to break the news to him that there 'd been a terrible suicide , they were all wondering who was going to be the one to take this boy to one side and tell him what had happened to his friend , and why . |
| 27 | This was a disaster of some magnitude , and there was nothing for it but to seek the man out and tell him what had happened . |
| 28 | The very next day he went back to the doctor to tell him what had happened . |
| 29 | Quickly , in as few words as possible , Jack told him what had happened with the Glory , how he had seen the gigantic Worm break through the earth , and how both Tina and his mother had denied all knowledge of what they had seen . |
| 30 | Excitedly I told him what had happened and begged him to let me have the harmonium . |