Example sentences of "what [vb past] i [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each time , like , I 've learned not to do this because that 's what got me back into it the last time . |
| 2 | The sound of the collision was what woke me up : a terrible grinding , smashing wrench . |
| 3 | So I did n't do any appropriate sociability there but I think what threw me off is cos I 'd already said Helen to Stephen , I know you and everything and it was as if it was part of the same thing |
| 4 | Not so much the opposition — what shook me up was to see children being used in the front line by protestors . |
| 5 | No I had a Group Manager who actually introduced me to this , I erm , I work out with him , but , he brought a , actually what turned me on to this was the fact that erm , where he is , he 's thirty six now , and erm , he 's got no mortgages , he 's got a , he paid eleven thousand pounds for a , a Kawasaki Z Z eleven hundred R super bike , worth that is |
| 6 | In the middle of this quiet preview of my academic future , Ma does something — only a small thing , but it breaks an unwritten law of the household — and that 's what started me off … |
| 7 | That 's what pissed me off , when you lot got moved down there fucking ridiculous . |
| 8 | But what pissed me off was , right , |
| 9 | What pissed me off is , is he 's hanging about with James and that lot now right , but when you talk about James and that lot to him its , oh they 're a bunch of chiefs . |
| 10 | I think what put me off in th and certainly em embedded was some of the comments as around control of our lives . |
| 11 | knots , very few knots , just lovely yellow pine and er and they make all their furniture out of these pieces , so , he said that 's what set me off on making furniture he said |