Example sentences of "what i [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Look what I got for mother . |
| 2 | Oh , ’ she added , ‘ except that somehow I never mentioned what I got from Dad . |
| 3 | I suspect from what I heard in conversation from others in other presbyteries is that many of them were in favour of change , but simply did not feel that what was proposed was an improvement to what we have already . |
| 4 | This afternoon I read what I wrote about G.P. the day before yesterday . |
| 5 | There were sand drifts in the corners , and what I took for lace curtains at the windows turned out to be spider webs . |
| 6 | ‘ But I began this without any hope whatsoever of winning the one thing I wanted above all others because I thought it was already given , and what I took in compensation merely made me want it more and resent its absence , because I kept loving you more and more . |
| 7 | It was , I suppose , what I demanded of Fate — to be gently wafted into the position of a hero of romance , without rough hands at my throat . |
| 8 | What I learnt as Home Secretary , unlike myself as Home , Home Secretary , with a police department , with the inspectorate , you having a backing , the local police authorities do not . |
| 9 | When I look back at what I learnt in college I 'm disappointed to think that they did n't teach me more . |
| 10 | that 's what I said to mum , you know , that 's why I so wanted to pass me , me test , cos I said to mum erm , see I kept it , I only had six hundred quid redundancy , six hundred and twenty eight pounds , that 's all I had , apart , I had me wages what was owed and me holiday pay , but my , me actual redundancy cheque was only six hundred and twenty eight quid |
| 11 | Let me repeat what I said to Marketing Week ; that no woman needs a special washing substance for her vulva . |
| 12 | I say again what I said before business questions , namely , that there is heavy pressure on the next two debates . |
| 13 | In a sense this may be thought to contradict what I said in chapter 1 , where the emphasis was on the evident synchroneity of particular deposits , particularly carbonates . |
| 14 | I suppose what I was asked and what I said in reply will be subject to the ‘ 30 year rule ’ — and heaven knows what any archivist will make of it all in the year 2012 ! |
| 15 | Wine , grapes , bulls and lots and lots of sun , that 's what I had for Christmas , General . ’ |
| 16 | If you did get one , you 'd be permanently broke , which is n't quite what I had in mind . |
| 17 | ‘ It was n't exactly what I had in mind when I asked the council if I could donate some money for a seat in the park ’ |
| 18 | She asked what I had in mind , and I said an informal conversation about the principal events of her life from her girlhood at Glamis Castle to the present day . |
| 19 | ‘ Helping him hire an assassin is n't what I had in mind . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ What I had in mind has nothing to do with sentimentality . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ That was not at all what I had in mind for you , ’ he said , pouring the three of them glasses of champagne . |
| 22 | It was going to help me , with what I had in mind , the fact that I 'd been able to wise him up on that . |
| 23 | ‘ That 's exactly what I had in mind . |
| 24 | ‘ That 's not what I had in mind . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ No , that is not what I had in mind ! ’ he told her wryly , a wealth of sensual persuasion in his deep voice . |
| 26 | I was n't sure there were enough drinks in the City for what I had in mind , but , as the man said , a man 's reach should exceed his grasp , or what 's a heaven for ? |
| 27 | ‘ An exchange is more what I had in mind . |
| 28 | What I had in mind was more along the lines of evolution than revolution . ’ |
| 29 | What I had in mind all along , however , and possibly Eliot did too , was the eventual production of a book . |
| 30 | ‘ This look is what I had in mind . ’ |