Example sentences of "what [adv] [verb] i [verb] " 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 | What right had I to tarnish the reputation of an acknowledged war hero and needlessly distress his family ? |
3 | What right had I to bring him here and to inflict this sort of suffering on him ? |
4 | What right had I to think it might be easy ? |
5 | What right have I to criticise so strongly ivory traders in China who are merely making a living , while I am sitting here killing unsuspecting animals for no reason at all ? |
6 | What right have I to patronize and judge her , anyway ? |
7 | What right do I have to take his picture if he feels he 's in a state of revolution against his government and I 'm going to cause him to be arrested . |
8 | What exactly did I do to deserve a so-called friend like you ? ’ |
9 | What more did I want ? |
10 | Musically , what originally attracted me to dance was its shamanist aspects , using natural magic to change people 's neurological states and to psychologically empower them . |
11 | Ken said , ‘ Yeah , I remember that too , but what really got me going was the bit at the end : |
12 | What then did I feel ? |
13 | What then do I do with a capable but unproductive pupil ? |
14 | What then do I need ? |
15 | So what else did I expect ? |
16 | Now , what else did I want to know ? |
17 | Now , what else did I want ? |
18 | What else did I do ? |
19 | Tt and what else did I put , erm yeah when you are writing things down try and maintain some sort of eye contact , the only time , the eye contact was fine but there were |
20 | what else did I get ? |
21 | And what else did I get ? |
22 | one I got , what else did I get ? |
23 | So what else did I say ? ’ |
24 | What else did I say ? |
25 | What else did I have to support my family on in the West ? |
26 | and it takes you back right what else did I take I took nine things |
27 | I agreed but then thought , yes I do , what else have I got going for me ? |
28 | What else have I got here ? |
29 | but er , er as I say while I was round there the new town was , was all built and er I found , we found such a difference cos I used to have to go into Old Harlow shopping , I used to cycle before I was handicapped like this , I used to cycle everywhere , and er I went , you used to have to queue up in Old Harlow for the shops , we had n't got anything here at all , no Stow or anything when I first , I mean when I came here nothing , it was just terrible terrible lane up here it was and all these were all ploughed fields and it was really terrible and I had erm , I used to have to cycle into the doctors Old Harlow , queue up , queue up at the butchers , queue up everywhere you had to queue and er , till they built this er the new , The Stow then we used to go to The Stow shopping you know which made such a difference , but er , during my say during my lifetime I 've so , so pleased when the new town came because I wanted to move back to Nazeing where I came from when I first got here because it was such a terrible place there was nothing doing whatever , you know and then I moved erm , as I say after I got round the front there it was more , better really , you know , with all the er traffic and that you could see people going by and that as otherwise it , it was monotonous really in Common Fields , you did n't see much at all there , but you know it was , I quite enjoyed it really , now what else have I got to tell you ? |
30 | Er , what else have I got there ? |