Example sentences of "what [adv] [verb] i " 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 eventually swayed me was the fact that Hibs were a big club with a greater potential support , although at that point I probably had a better squad of players in Paisley .
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 had I to tarnish the reputation of an acknowledged war hero and needlessly distress his family ?
6 What right have I to patronize and judge her , anyway ?
7 Indeed , he even reveals that he has recovered from a bout of depression : ‘ What right have I to be depressed ?
8 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 ?
9 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 .
10 But what most angered me was the last-minute timing of the intervention .
11 What especially pleases me is that we are extraordinarily popular and that Wolfgang is admired here even more than he has been in all the other towns of Italy ; the reason is that Bologna is the centre and dwelling-place of many masters , artists and scholars .
12 Braque , on the other hand , is quoted as saying , ‘ what especially attracted me — and what was the main preoccupation of Cubism — was the materialization of that new space which I sensed . ’
13 What finally convinced me that it was a real physical process was that the outgoing particles have a spectrum that is precisely thermal ; the black hole creates and emits particles just as if it were an ordinary hot body with a temperature that is proportional to the surface gravity and inversely proportional to the mass .
14 But what finally convinced me that the emission was real was that the spectrum of the emitted particles was exactly that which would be emitted by a hot body , and that the black hole was emitting particles at exactly the correct rate to prevent violations of the second law .
15 What exactly did I do to deserve a so-called friend like you ? ’
16 What more did I want ?
17 That 's what always says I really hate that .
18 What always annoys me is the display of sweets at the check-out right where the children can grab them . ’
19 What always amazes me when we play scrabble I mean , things that I consider to be slang you know , on the odd time I thought well I 'll try that
20 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 .
21 Now , while I 'm quite happy to take the credit for Birdman I 'm not sure that Ron Fawcett feels the same way , but what really bugs me is Zero .
22 I said what really bugs me is when I 'm driving and you come from behind somebody and then somebody overtakes you and .
23 Of course ’ — he offered me his ingenuous grin — ‘ what really keeps me fit is all that prime USDA beef . ’
24 What really attracted me to this hat was its shape — it reminded me of the ones American tourists wear . ’
25 What really attracted me to the whole idea was that June said : ‘ Personally I think it is the greatest thing since sliced bread . ’
26 What really concerned me was how to finance a tunnel project of any kind .
27 Literature 's OK , but what really grabs me is scuttling , right ?
28 But during the whole thing David never stuck up for us — that 's what really got me .
29 Ken said , ‘ Yeah , I remember that too , but what really got me going was the bit at the end :
30 What REALLY pissed me off though was Girly Perm Keegan saying he could understand Leeds selling Le Turd because ‘ he had too much class for them to handle ’ .
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