Example sentences of "what [pron] [vb past] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I tell you what I made a printing machine on Friday and it works . |
| 2 | I mean this coal tip is is n't going to be based on what I said a moment or two ago with it 's thirty million tons of coal covering nearly three hundred and fifty acres a bit of a monster . |
| 3 | I tell you what I lost a stone and half in two weeks |
| 4 | Well , what I found a bit erm remarkable really , in the book |
| 5 | What she got a breakfast session over the |
| 6 | What she put a waistcoat on him for ? |
| 7 | And the professional enforcer visibly disapproved of endangering the minds of civilians in what she considered a problem for her department . |
| 8 | She was what she called a conviction politician . |
| 9 | Having lost some of the true Christian Scientist 's sanguinity about money and the faith that good Scientists should be able to demonstrate prosperity , she suggested faintly that Harriet had better take a secretarial course and equip herself to earn what she called a hat allowance , by which she meant a living . |
| 10 | Hepzibah says she knew an old woman once who kept what she called a Death Book . |
| 11 | What you got a microphone for ? |
| 12 | ‘ No ; but … but I guessed something like that had happened from what you said a while back . ’ |
| 13 | right , now there is a precise and an exact way of working your way through it , right so maybe while use my words right , they might not be the same as yours but they will be roughly what you said a minute ago , right , what was your words , some of it ? |
| 14 | What you said a moment ago makes me wonder er about some of these calculations , because it , I take it assumes erm instant productivity , |
| 15 | Always having a calculator to hand ( is n't that what you bought a computer for ? ) and an instantly accessible notepad are probably the two essential elements . |
| 16 | because I thought you had to be in post this is what we had a problem with with Napier 's request for recognition |
| 17 | The clay would n't lea you could n't clear the buckets , so we used to what we had a grafting tool , that was like a spade but that was , er , that was er , narrow at one end , the spade at the bottom end was a bit narrow so you could cut th cut the clay out of , out the buckets and that was a hard job too . |
| 18 | Sippl , who rues the fact the Unix industry ca n't agree on a common desktop interface , reflects that it 's ‘ scary that one vendor [ Novell Inc ] is about to take over what we spent a decade building ’ largely because he offers the customer homogeneity . |
| 19 | Sippl , who rues the fact the Unix industry ca n't agree on a common desktop interface ( UX No 426 ) , reflects that it 's ‘ scary that one vendor is about to take over what we spent a decade building ’ largely because he offers the customer homogeneity . |
| 20 | What we do is prompted by what we believed a minute or a year or a century ago . |
| 21 | That 's what we used a say during the war . |
| 22 | We had a thing what we called a hay-strewer ; and we had an old horse that we put in this hay-strewer . |
| 23 | He was what we called a School Board man as well he was , that was his official capacity , and in those days if you were n't at school they used to erm send a man round to see where you were , you know and why were n't you at school ? |
| 24 | With a horse , I had a horse then , and er there u there used to be er there used to be three or four of us there with horses and we we used to The the the From the coal face there used to be all individual horses bringing odd tubs into a turnout What we called a turner which was a collection of different tubs you see ? |
| 25 | ‘ They 'd have what we called a vandyck back and sleeves — a fancy stitch something like waves — on the shoulders and the cuffs . |
| 26 | And er any bigger kitchen , there was nearly always er what we called a box bed in it , and er it was er That was where the mother and the father lived . |
| 27 | If their new buildings did not look like churches they had a right to say that people should re-examine what they thought a church ought to look like . |
| 28 | Besides , he was what they felt a doctor ought to be : a family man , with authority and good humour . |
| 29 | What they had a railway run down from there ? |
| 30 | The beneficiaries thus regard themselves as having received no more than their due , to which they were entitled anyhow , while those whose benefits are discontinued regard themselves as cheated of what they had a right to and had been encouraged to expect . |