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Example sentences of "what [pers pn] [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Oh that 's what I got in the shop .
2	Yeah but she 's got more hair than what I got in the front .
3	There were no school sports and no athletics , just football , and that is what I played for the rest of the time I was there .
4	But what I heard at the same time was the most fantastic application of expression .
5	I lay there trying to square what I heard with the new enthusiasm derived from Edward and Laura , for I 'd left the Lodge around two in the morning , ready to set off with them the next day in search of the horizon .
6	Yeah I was sure that 's what our team wrote down cos that 's what I wrote on the sheet
7	He took it up and read : ‘ Many readers will probably have learned by now that I am being sued by Miss Hilary Robarts , the Acting Administrative Officer at Larksoken Power Station , for alleged libel arising from what I wrote in the May issue of the news-sheet .
8	Here 's what I wrote in the obituary I did for him in The Guardian :
9	‘ That 's what I thought at the time , anyway , ’ said William , ‘ but I think now it must have been Barry Moxton .
10	‘ From … from what I gathered from the nurse it was n't as serious as they at first thought .
11	A silly man , I ca n't understand , cos you used to get in a car now what I went in the car Sunday , well it the
12	What I learnt of the Al Fayeds settled one question but raised another .
13	Okay , now erm , today as you realize with feelings of immense relief is the last lecture of the term , so , so what I 'm gon na do , is to start talking about the er , so called black books of Freud , the set texts in this , in this course and I 'm gon na start talking today about the first , and in some ways , one of the most important of these , Totem and Taboo , and since it 's the last lecture of term , and you probably all forget what I said over the Christmas holiday , and wo n't be able to recall it afterwards , through the alcoholic haze , er what I thought I 'd do today , was talk about Totem and Taboo in the way in which it looked backwards rather than forwards .
14	That 's just what I said during the news interview , was n't it ?
15	The second relates to what I said about the evaporation/solar-flares analogy being an external relation .
16	I add a few words of my own only because of the difference of opinion between your Lordships on this question and because what I said about the availability of certiorari in my speech in Thomas v. University of Bradford [ 1987 ] A.C. 795 has been interpreted to include an error of law by the Divisional Court and the Court of Appeal [ 1991 ] 1 W.L.R. 1277 which was not what I had intended .
17	Did you hear what I said about the tall fair man , dear ? "
18	Do you remember what I said about the the er structured thought pattern you 've now got in front of you , let me go to mine which is all blank .
19	‘ Think about what I said about the lessons .
20	‘ All right , I take back what I said about the schoolroom .
21	‘ It 's been such a pleasure meeting you and do n't forget what I said about the spring . ’
22	Erm , and what I said about the erm
23	what I said about the er
24	Occasionally he translated what I said for the benefit of the other two .
25	‘ I do n't remember what I said to the girls , but it was certainly not ‘ Catch a butterfly ’ .
26	What I said to the Prime Minister was that he should answer that part of the question to him that was in order .
27	I shall not repeat what I said to the Government of India , but it is perfectly fair to say that it was well taken .
28	What I said to the other group , partly because they had a , an hour before the lecture is that I 'll use next week with them , as , as an introduction to the poetry of this period .
29	Years abroad had made me wary of what I said on the telephone .
30	Just time for a card — we leave in half an hour — had our last night on the Johnny Walker now it 's local firewater or nothing remember what I said on the phone and do n't have it cut too short .