Example sentences of "what [verb] i [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What made me laugh was the Conservative broadcast on Wednesday was real propaganda , trying to frighten you to death that if the Labour got in |
| 2 | what made me laugh was this police woman saying , it annoys me , if you have a drink you should n't drive , and I thought to myself and I bet |
| 3 | I mean what used to make me , what made me laugh too , is the same with linens and things |
| 4 | Oh , I do n't know what made me do that , rotten thing to do , that was . |
| 5 | I 'd been wondering what made me think of Schumann . ’ |
| 6 | In fact I do n't know what made me think he was that way in the first place — unless it was you , of course , leading me off the trail ! |
| 7 | what made me think you see it 's right at the top where the morning then |
| 8 | That 's what made me think , you know ? |
| 9 | development er back there , that 's what made me think of it . |
| 10 | What made me go out that night when , normally , I would have stayed in and watched television ? |
| 11 | For several seconds I do n't know what made me wake up . |
| 12 | But what made me decide I 'd had enough was when one night about 11pm I was about to climb into bed when the bell rang from the drawing room so I had to slip some clothes on and go and answer it . |
| 13 | Eh , yeah regular army pay , great that 's really what made me decide to join the army , that was in the T A but I regulars . |
| 14 | For a long time I never realised how badly paid and overworked I was , but what made me feel bad in those days was the rudeness and lack of respect with which I and other Asian women were treated by the supervisors . |
| 15 | But then , when I come to think and ask myself what made me like this , I have n't far to seek the answer . |
| 16 | That was how I wanted it to be , but what made me ache was the knowledge that Jo could n't have all she wanted : to he the writer of stories , whose stories were her children , but heart-breakingly not to have Laurie . |
| 17 | Erm what , well , what made me ask was Lillie , and her . |
| 18 | Er what made me smile when they found out that the salt were going through these er motorway bridges and attacking the steel work in the concrete with all sort of powers that they would of known that would n't ya ? |
| 19 | I do n't know what made me look in the bag , but it were n't . |
| 20 | ‘ I heard a lot of apples fall — that 's what made me come over , ’ said the farmer . |
| 21 | ‘ But your representative completed the transaction yesterday , ’ Mr Palmer assured me , looking as if he would never understand what made me tick . |
| 22 | ‘ What made me develop her along masochistic lines ? |
| 23 | But I know what to do I do n't know what you want me to do . |
| 24 | I I I I I do n't know what to do I have to ask my boss tomorrow again you know ? |
| 25 | What do I want from exercise ? |
| 26 | What do I want out of my working life ? |
| 27 | What do I want to get out of a job ? |
| 28 | Maggie LeMan kept her eyes riveted on the occupants of the stage for a moment , where they were bowing and making the best of the half-hearted appreciation now being shown by clapping punctuated with cat-calls ; then , slowly leaning to the side , she picked up the bird cage as she said , ‘ What do I want with a concert party ? |
| 29 | The first thing to do is to rephrase the question that everyone asks themselves , not ‘ what would I like to grow , what do I want to grow ? ’ but ‘ what do I have space for , and how much time am I prepared to devote to looking after what I plant ? ’ |
| 30 | Ask yourself the question ‘ What do I want out of life ? ’ |