Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] what the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I noted what the hon. Gentleman said in his biblical reference ; it occurred to me that he should be a little more careful when talking about St. Paul . |
| 2 | and the , of course , you went onto to number one the man 's two er , group secretary who draws it out I forgot what the other one was . |
| 3 | Secondly , I heard what the hon. Gentleman said about the Christmas bonus , but many other people would think that if the relevant sums of money were available — and they would be quite substantial — they should be directed to the less well-off pensioners . |
| 4 | I heard what the hon. Member for Beckenham ( Sir P. Goodhart ) said and I share his disappointment and that of my hon. Friend the Member for Bradford , West ( Mr. Madden ) that the amendments relating to the rights of the child have not been selected . |
| 5 | I knew what the next request would be : not to visit him again . |
| 6 | Clearly it was I who should have spoken these words , but already I had a feeling that I knew what the brown paper and the ribbed cardboard concealed , and I was n't going to say a word until time or circumstance compelled me . |
| 7 | I thought what the bloody hell 's she on about . |
| 8 | When I first heard the first noise I thought what the bloody hell 's that and I turned the sound down . |
| 9 | I thought what the bloody hell 's all this |
| 10 | I thought what the bloody hell 's he doing this for ? |
| 11 | I wondered what the bloody hell was going on , I really did . |
| 12 | Fuck it I wondered what the bloody hell that was ! |
| 13 | As this thing got near the end obviously making for her side , away from the door , she realised what the round blob was — ; it was the nub of the umbrella they had bought their daughter . |
| 14 | And er oh she says to m She could n't did n't speak Welsh but she told what the old man told her in that shop there . |
| 15 | ‘ You heard what the pretty lady said . |
| 16 | She knew what the sensible course of action was . |
| 17 | But then she remembered what the wise old turtle had told her about putting herself in the dog 's place , and doing what she would want to have done to her . |
| 18 | She remembered what the fat one had said about Mallachy 's hands . |
| 19 | She considered what the previous night meant to her : two acts of ‘ love ’ in the space of seven hours . |
| 20 | She wondered what the two men were talking about . |
| 21 | It was doubtful , he said , whether the Vietnamese government could succeed without the most generous , if not passionate , French assistance ; and yet how France 's partners within the French Union could evolve had never been defined : indeed no one knew what the French Union meant . |
| 22 | They understood what the black hat meant , and they agreed with the judge . |
| 23 | They knew what the national objectives were ie to improve the wellbeing of people who moved ; not to be too expensive and to work jointly with other agencies — but what were their local objectives ? |
| 24 | It produced what the French defence minister , Charles Hernu , described to the French parliament as a ‘ new radioactive situation . ’ |
| 25 | He admired what the early Methodists did for the miners and how the earliest of the miners ' unions was Methodist in its inspiration . |
| 26 | He knew what the Victorian churchmen of the north had done for the miners and how by the third quarter of the nineteenth century the Church was strong within the mining communities though it never took the place of the Methodists . |
| 27 | Suddenly , without trying , he knew what the real Harriet Shakespeare would say . |
| 28 | The battles in Russia , Africa and Normandy became mere words , to be heard punctually from the loudspeaker at three or four o'clock , from the English news-reader if German security was sufficiently relaxed , or from anybody who thought he knew what the next allotment of words was going to be about . |
| 29 | He did what the established artist ordered , and felt the ignominy of it , of what his instruction had turned into — a succession of orders . |
| 30 | Prebendary Wace of Canterbury praised the pamphlet during the 1899 Church Congress and Charles Gore , from the opposite wing of the Church , called it ‘ an extraordinarily important document , because it defined what the nineteenth century 's latest religion , ‘ undenominational Christianity ’ actually was . |