Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] what " in BNC.
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| 1 | Helen asked me to explain what I meant , and listened carefully to the long story of what I had suffered at Gateshead . |
| 2 | Later he called me to a meeting of the Executive Council and asked me to say what I thought the principles of the Department should be and how they could be implemented . |
| 3 | I remember that she asked me to guess what was inside a sort of pasty served to her on Thásos , and that I got it right at the first guess : macaroni . |
| 4 | It kept me awake at nights , it made me forget what I was doing during the day . |
| 5 | ‘ However , there are a lot of good players from around Europe playing on the Swedish Tour and it made me realise what I have to do to make it as a pro . |
| 6 | The bridge was like a symbol which suddenly made me realise what is happening to that country . |
| 7 | It made me realise what a coward I 've been over my own problem . |
| 8 | The first I new was Chris 's sudden , shocked screaming , with an urgency that made me drop what I was doing and run across the room to the open verandah . |
| 9 | ‘ I 've seen him myself , or else hearing about it has put me in a special state of mind , and all the other factors have come up right , atmospheric conditions , combinations of light and dark , what you like , and made me create what I believed I was seeing . |
| 10 | ‘ It really made me appreciate what I have — my job , my family and my home , ’ he said . |
| 11 | This made me remember what had happened before and ever since I have been treating both water and canoes with a good degree of caution and respect . |
| 12 | Mr Brown 's respectful reception of these corkers made me wonder what he looks like . |
| 13 | All this made me wonder what class of people were involved in the production . |
| 14 | That made me wonder what he wanted , so I stood and watched . |
| 15 | It made me wonder what changes had taken place over the years with regards to the field . |
| 16 | ‘ If you must know , it made me wonder what sort of doctor I am , that 's all . ’ |
| 17 | So er she got I mean what ? |
| 18 | As it turned out , the studio ‘ was n't up to much any more and half the equipment was broken ’ , but , according to Mondays ' manager Nathan McGough , ‘ a little light went on as soon as I met Chris and Tina , so I phoned them to ask what they thought of the band and what they had planned for the next couple of months ’ . |
| 19 | At the beginning of Lent , Miss White approached me to see what she should do about the appeal |
| 20 | As the shock receded , Charles found himself wondering what the disagreement had really been about . |
| 21 | In fact , the beauty all around was so breathtaking that , for the first time in his life , he actually caught himself thinking what a shame it would be to put a railway line here , to bring dirt and clamour to this Eden . |
| 22 | England found nobody to do what the Pakistan quickies — Wasim Akram in particular — had done to them . |
| 23 | Structured thought which had as its main attributes three themes of course before you had that you had to have a clear objective which helped you to choose what those three themes were , and why why did we choose three as a based on |
| 24 | Pick out some of the comparisons that really helped you imagine what tyrannosaurus rex was like . |
| 25 | Then as her gaze focused unconsciously on the hyacinth-coloured bedspread , she found herself remembering what Silvia had said : ‘ I thought you ought to have a room with a double bed , for when your boyfriend comes to visit you ’ . |
| 26 | She had spent a sleepless night agonising over what had happened between herself and David and she found herself dreading what the atmosphere would be like between them . |
| 27 | And , without really meaning to , she found herself wondering what Pete McCarthy might be doing . |
| 28 | Ianthe had gone into a kind of day dream and found herself wondering what John did in the evenings . |
| 29 | And then she found herself wondering what had prompted her to utter remarks concerning his private affairs . |
| 30 | It had been a slip on Doreen 's part , Lucy recalled as she found herself wondering what the situation had been with Clive . |