Example sentences of "what [pron] [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The author of what I later discovered to be a scholarly , if tendentious , account of us foreign policy since Korea , he expressed a fastidious regret for the instruments America had to work through but justified the excesses of the client governments by reference to the worse alternative of Marxist dictatorship . |
| 2 | However , while North Circular-bound a few months back I was flipping through the channels on the radio trying find something decent when I came across what I later learned to be Hey from the recent ‘ Upfront ’ album by David Sanborn . |
| 3 | Look what I already did to your car . ’ |
| 4 | As I thought about it , the notion took its own shape , blossoming , as it were , and escalating into what I finally conceived as my cousin 's nemesis . |
| 5 | Mill says exactly what I just said in response of him that is if the people are prepared to accept these why what 's to stop them consulting and asking for advice about how they should cast their vote and so Mill later on gives a response to his own suggestion about plural voting in effect without realizing that what he 's done . |
| 6 | I saw , and I have had in actual fact , recourse to actually use that service over there , and it 's rather interesting if one can t to say that er in the particular village which I er represent , they actually came up , when I asked a certain question , they gave me a , a , far more than what I actually asked for at the time , but found out who the first village constable was , and I think myself that er , that service over there , it deserves every praise it gets heaped on it . |
| 7 | You want to know what I actually thought of when you asked me to , quote , talk to you about my cock ? |
| 8 | I said at the time that reports are ALWAYS one sided when the score is 3–0 or 4–0 , this coupled with what I actually heard on radio 5 and what Ive seen of the goals is that Leeds had plenty of the ball , just found it hard to break a 6,7,8 man defence , and norwich looked dangerous on the counter attack . |
| 9 | Some of them do it sheepishly , and with reluctance and say , It 's never what I ever had in mind . |
| 10 | What I always found with with lumbar aches was erm putting the knee up sideways across your erm . |
| 11 | What I really learnt about teaching was when I actually started the stuff . |
| 12 | As Lewis tells us in the preface to the published version of this book , his initial reaction was to wish for anonymity , ‘ since if I were to say what I really thought about pain , I should be forced to make statements of such apparent fortitude that they would become ridiculous if anyone knew who made them , . |
| 13 | Downs said : ‘ If I said what I really thought about the ref , they would lock me up and throw away the key . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ But getting back to your question , what I really wanted from this album was for anyone who hears it to say they like it or they do n't like it , but that it 's pure Steve Harley . ’ |
| 15 | But all I wanted was a bit of independence , a chance to find myself and discover what I really wanted from life . ’ |
| 16 | I managed to grab a seat , or a seatette , for what I still regarded as a trip to Bangkok ( that is , a trip to your auntie might take , not Timothy Leary ) . |
| 17 | They say they 'd appreciate knowing what I originally had in mind , so they can see if it still sounds suitable . |
| 18 | It would have been defeat over what I now knew for certain was a perfectly reasonable and legal procedure which I would have found hard to handle . |
| 19 | The houses looked completely different from those in Trieste , most of which were grey and severe , and although I had seen picture postcards of Venice nothing could have prepared me for what I now saw for the first time from the steps of the railway station . |
| 20 | From the little Patrick had told her , and from what she already knew of the woman , she knew Madam Lundy was quite capable of having them killed as a lesson . |
| 21 | She had to struggle to understand what she already knew about in her head , but not in her heart . |
| 22 | But her mind did not dwell long on what she privately felt to be a remote contingency — Lady Merchiston was so changeable ! |
| 23 | ‘ Nonsense , Saul ! ’ said Araminta , smiling in what she evidently felt to be a winning fashion . |
| 24 | It was the start of what she later described as ‘ the most emotionally confusing day of my life . ’ |
| 25 | By contrast she was ‘ positioned ’ by her partner as being incapable of doing much of what she regularly performed at the centre . |
| 26 | Her feelings for him had been a pallid thing beside what she now felt for Fen . |
| 27 | Yet she also knew that if she had succumbed to her longing she would not have been satisfied , knowing what she now knew of the terrible difficulties of love . |
| 28 | Sebastian seemed as cheerful as ever , but what she now saw as the unthinking , meaningless nature of his good nature irritated her almost beyond bearing . |
| 29 | ‘ You must listen to this , ’ said Hugo , and Valerie , out of simple love , stopped writing and listened , though Lover at the Gate was in mid-flow and she did not want her concentration spoiled : what she now put on the page was beginning to have the quality of automatic writing : she feared the cutting-in of her own rationality : doubt would come with it , and hesitation . |
| 30 | Her friend , Miriam , had embarked on what she euphemistically described as ‘ a wonderful adventure ’ — her first act of adultery , after a nine-year marriage rooted in mutual devotion and trust . |