Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] what [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This kind of treatment caused resentment among the petty-minded officialdom which ran the British professional game , and when Boomer was chosen for the 1927 Ryder Cup team he was picked up at Cherbourg en route to America and made to wear what every Frenchman was supposed to wear — a beret . |
| 2 | You ca n't hear nothing cos the glass is too thick , so you got to guess what the people are saying . |
| 3 | And when they started to shout these people out shopping , cos everybody stopped to see what the fellers screaming about . |
| 4 | He vaguely tried to remember what the friar had told him . |
| 5 | But Yanek , the youngest grandson , tried and tried to remember what the sun-god had told him to do . |
| 6 | He tried to remember what the weather had been like in the last week and realized he had no idea ; like many city-dwellers he had moved from flat to car to office without registering any variation . |
| 7 | Masklin tried to imagine what a sea cow looked like . |
| 8 | He tried to imagine what the inside of the Conference Room would look like now , and found he all too easily could . |
| 9 | Tonight he tried to imagine what the Corsican looked like in a rage . |
| 10 | He tried to imagine what the woman with short hair would look like with it long . |
| 11 | She trembled to think what the Trunchbull would do to her if she did that . |
| 12 | The sleeping patient 's eyes were bandaged , just in case she tried to anticipate what the surgeon would do next . |
| 13 | No , however much she tried to dismiss what the astrologer had said , the words kept ringing in her ears until she thought she would scream . |
| 14 | And then Lisabeth came to see what the noise was and he must have thought she was you for a minute — we had the curtains drawn , you see . |
| 15 | ‘ I came to see what the Romans were doing , ’ I explained . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , I heard your dog scratching at the door , so I came to see what the matter was . |
| 17 | Marcus had n't given me any since I threw up in the hall and he stepped in it when he came to see what the matter was . |
| 18 | Mr Doblin claimed that no-one at the hotel seemed to know what the cost of a telephone call should be . |
| 19 | I followed Ward 's lead as he seemed to know what the dishes were . |
| 20 | No one seemed to know what the situation was or what was going on but the diplomats , at least , had prepared for the worst . |
| 21 | I 'd forgotten what a joy it is to have a girl-friend . |
| 22 | Maybe , just for once , he 'd understood what a science story was all about ? |
| 23 | Well , anyway , thought Julia , she could n't be worse at waiting than she was at typing , so she 'd asked what the rate of pay was . |
| 24 | My canoe had turned side on to the river and against the flow and as I turned to see what the noise was I realised that I had hit a log sticking out of the water . |
| 25 | I hated to imagine what the consequences of breaching this trust might be . |
| 26 | When it appeared that the intent to educate had been overwhelmed by the need to amuse , Cayley became chairman of the Royal Polytechnic Institution at Regent Street , which from 1838 sought to do what the Adelaide Gallery had failed to do . |
| 27 | She craned to see what the man was dragging , it looked like a body . |
| 28 | Nadirpur gradually began to grasp what the Englishman meant . |
| 29 | On the other hand , he needed to know what the man was up to . |
| 30 | — ONE jump ahead as usual , the eldest bairn rang to ask what a frog 's favourite sweet might be . |