Example sentences of "what did [pers pn] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 31 | What did we do on Friday ? |
| 32 | No but what did we do for science ? |
| 33 | What did we watch last night ? |
| 34 | aye I thought we watched on Sunday , what did we watch on Sunday ? |
| 35 | And what did we think we were doing ? |
| 36 | GILLIAN said how could we separate the two , because where did grammar come from if not from grammarians , and almost all grammarians — probably every single one of them for all she knew — were men , so what did we expect ; but mainly she was talking common sense . |
| 37 | What did we expect ? |
| 38 | And what did we want to do select printer looks like a good idea . |
| 39 | ‘ They said what did we want to be . ’ |
| 40 | What did we miss ? |
| 41 | What did we inherit , I say we inherited that , and also we have inherited er an S S A to us , that you would have inherited , the conservative , at some ten million short of what we needed . |
| 42 | ‘ What did we talk about when we were in Three A ? ’ she countered , and all three racked their brains in vain . |
| 43 | What did we talk about last week ? |
| 44 | You put big heading Paul , what did we do first , what did we talk about first ? |
| 45 | What did we talk about first Paul ? |
| 46 | Listen , what did we talk about first ? |
| 47 | I want er , did we , what did we win ? |
| 48 | What did we call Gillis ? ’ |
| 49 | What did we call her now ? |
| 50 | We had to put it in erm oh what did we call it oh dear a little vice and er put a ball , about three inches long and then er put it into the plug and erm put the cap , the little brass cap but also the I 've made a mistake there , before we did that we had to put the natural plug in and in that plug there were five like aluminium coloured er pins , each of a different size and we had to learn to read the key for the various depths you see and we had boxes of pins with the different sizes in and er then put those in the plug and then push the key in and but we 'd got to , we got to file , we had to file the bars and also the little brass caps to get all the edge the , I forget what we used to call it now , off the cap to get it smooth and then get it in our own vice and screw , screw them down and there were thirty two , there were three key keys to each , each lock , and er we had to file them until they were ready and they worked easily push the key in properly , and we also used to put black lead in , you could not put oil because they would have stopped the springs working and we had a little box of ordinary oh like the black lead that we used to black lead the graves , put some on the key and push that then and work it round , and that was the erm that was made it work freely you see and then there was erm a half a gross to each board , and three , three keys to each one and then erm we , we filed the various things ourselves , but then they would take that away from you and bring you more you see and then when eventually the keys had to be polished and it was only a favourite few that were allowed to sit down to sort the keys out to com to complete them you see , but it was very very interesting work and I enjoyed being there but you |
| 51 | An increasing number of directors of sponsoring companies are beginning to ask ‘ What did we get for our money ? ’ when they so often see players to whom considerable appearance fees have been paid , losing limply in their first or second round matches and , even worse , then turning round and implying that the only tournaments they really take seriously are the Grand Slams . |
| 52 | ‘ What did we get for it ? |
| 53 | acid and the metal what did we get ? |
| 54 | And what did we get in return ? |
| 55 | So it 's sometime useful to think of it that way round , Newton 's third law , rather than force is mass times acceleration , you 're interested in the effect , now what did we get for this , what sort of acceleration do we get . |
| 56 | Which reminds me of Bobby Davison … what did we get for him ? ? |
| 57 | What did we get you for your birthday last year , I ca n't remember ? |
| 58 | Oh he had the party at school , what did we get him then ? |
| 59 | After all this time reason and reason 's been knocked down , one after the other and what did we get last time ? |
| 60 | what was on the orig , what did we have on the ori , I 'm not saying the original list is like , is right Paul , I had something in there about homework , whether people wanted |