Example sentences of "but what [adv] [verb] i " in BNC.
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1 | And it sounds ridiculous saying it now , but what eventually made me decide to move was when John Mayall brought horns into the BB line-up ; I was so dumb that I thought , ‘ If it 's horns , it 's not blues . ’ |
2 | But what most angered me was the last-minute timing of the intervention . |
3 | But what finally convinced me that the emission was real was that the spectrum of the emitted particles was exactly that which would be emitted by a hot body , and that the black hole was emitting particles at exactly the correct rate to prevent violations of the second law . |
4 | Last year was erm , an additional twenty thousand pounds at the last moment , chickenfeed for the big committees , that 's the annoying thing , but what particularly annoys me , and I have to say this , I 'll express it is the knowledge that what can be a phenomenal deprivation to this Committee , goes very , very , very little towards solving the major problems that this county faces , it does n't have a tremendous impact . |
5 | Literature 's OK , but what really grabs me is scuttling , right ? |
6 | Now , while I 'm quite happy to take the credit for Birdman I 'm not sure that Ron Fawcett feels the same way , but what really bugs me is Zero . |
7 | Ken said , ‘ Yeah , I remember that too , but what really got me going was the bit at the end : |
8 | But what really surprised me was that he was holding out both hands to me . |
9 | ‘ But what really annoys me is when I 'm stuck in a traffic jam , and ca n't let my childminder know I 'm going to be late . ’ |
10 | But what really disgusted me was the sight of other people eating . |
11 | But what really concerns me is the area directly relating to my composition . |
12 | But what chiefly concerns me here is simply the amount of time needed for what we know to have happened in the geological past if we can only postulate " normal processes " . |