Example sentences of "what [adv] [vb past] [pers pn] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What eventually brought him to reconsider his theory was not the critics ' doubts . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | Of course somebody , Who Shall Be Nameless , would bring up the subject of Burns-And-You-Know-What , and how many of his children were born on The Wrong Side Of The Blanket , What Right Had We to look down on Brown Owl for her shotgun wedding when we were all supposed to look up to Rabbie Burns as Our Big Hero ? |
| 4 | What right had they to intrude into her hard-earned holiday ? |
| 5 | But maybe they should n't have — she must have known a better life before this , and what right had they to claim her as their own without having brought her up ? |
| 6 | What right had they to make a panel discussion out of this ? |
| 7 | What right had I to tarnish the reputation of an acknowledged war hero and needlessly distress his family ? |
| 8 | What right had I to bring him here and to inflict this sort of suffering on him ? |
| 9 | What right had I to think it might be easy ? |
| 10 | After a few days , burning with a sense of injustice , Dexter plucked up courage and asked Blanche about her double standards — what right had she to make him listen to her type of music , when he could not force her to listen to his ? |
| 11 | Patrick smiled ruefully ; he was nineteen going on twenty — what right had he to assign motives to a woman ? |
| 12 | What right had he to spoil everything ? |
| 13 | ‘ What right had he to accept that lift ? ’ cries one lady . |
| 14 | But what right had he to probe into her personal life ? |
| 15 | What right did they have , that lot , getting you to think about how bloody life was , sitting in this poky flat with Ted always so tired he never played with Frieda or talked to herself and fell asleep straight after having it off . |
| 16 | What right did he have to come back into her life like this , trying to shatter it into little pieces that could n't be put back together for a second time ? |
| 17 | Or Sir Alec Guinness ‘ As a well-known Catholic actor , what right did you have to play Fagin ? ’ |
| 18 | What finally decided her to accept was his ready agreement to her one condition , that a shipboard romance was definitely off limits . |
| 19 | What exactly had he meant by that stupid , spiteful threat ? |
| 20 | But with the growth of these other uses , what exactly did it mean by 1990 to say that ‘ TV ’ was a mass medium ? |
| 21 | What exactly did he mean by that ? |
| 22 | Now what exactly did he mean by that remark ? |
| 23 | ‘ What exactly did he do ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ What exactly did he do ? ’ |
| 25 | What exactly did he see in this patronizing little squirt ? |
| 26 | ‘ What exactly did he take ? ’ he asked for the fourth time . |
| 27 | What exactly did he say ? ’ |
| 28 | What exactly did he say ? " |
| 29 | ‘ What exactly did he say ? ’ |
| 30 | What exactly did I do to deserve a so-called friend like you ? ’ |