Example sentences of "what it [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In statistical terms by far the best predictor of what an authority will spend this year is what it spent last year ( Danziger , 1978 ) . |
| 2 | Dot wished she knew what it felt like to be brave , and wondered if she 'd ever get the chance to find out . |
| 3 | On another level , an actor is someone who remembers what it felt like to be spurned , to be proud , to be angry , to be tender — all the manifestations of emotion he experienced as a child , as an adolescent , in early manhood and maturity . |
| 4 | What it felt like to be on the receiving end of such operations and the hammering which the landscape endured in those early years of the nineteenth century are painfully conveyed by another poet whose roots were in the East Midlands . |
| 5 | With the money safe in his pocket , he felt a strange and most unfamiliar feeling of pleased anticipation stirring inside him ; he was really looking forward to his appointment with Nutty , to find out what it felt like to ride a horse . |
| 6 | I would like to tell you about two special friends who were blood brothers ( perhaps you also remember what it felt like to cut your finger and touch another who had done the same ? ) . |
| 7 | Bradbury 's first novel , Eating People is Wrong ( 1959 ) , tells what it felt like to be a first-generation student in a civic university like Leicester in the 1950s , puzzled and intrigued as a humble newcomer by liberal values of knowledge-for-its-own-sake and a wholly unfamiliar style of life . |
| 8 | It is after all quite difficult to remember exactly what it felt like to be a small person when you yourself have n't been one for thirty or forty years . |
| 9 | He lifted his wrist experimentally to see what it felt like without the support . |
| 10 | Of what it felt like to live in such a world we are , and must for ever remain , entirely ignorant . |
| 11 | But I was admiring him and remembering Francis ; how he had been , once ; what it felt like to touch and be touched by him . |
| 12 | She was still terribly young and anyway , I think I was just a boy to her … any boy … and she wanted to know what it felt like to be kissed . ’ |
| 13 | But he remembered very clearly what it felt like to be followed . |
| 14 | What it felt like to be left out . |
| 15 | He was wonderful on things , on everyday smells and sounds , and what it felt like to work with your hands . |
| 16 | Biggins wondered what it felt like to be living in Nuremberg ; to have heavy bombardment every night . |
| 17 | I wondered what it felt like to die . |
| 18 | Do you have any conception of what it felt like to know I was about to lose you ? ’ |
| 19 | This was what it felt like to win a victory and lose the war . |
| 20 | Even though the NSDAP was to achieve its majority in the Danzig Volkstag with a very clear mandate from the electorate to do what it thought necessary , most Danzigers were prepared to reap the benefits of being on the winning side without pondering too deeply the significance or morality of their own personal support for a party they did not entirely trust or like . |
| 21 | Among the nine member countries in 1985 the British pension came second to last in what it enabled older people to buy in their own countries . |
| 22 | This was , this is what it said last night , one of them that lost the weight said , she said it must of been her , yeah |
| 23 | But what it signified neither man knew . |
| 24 | It denied denying what it called groundless accusations about embassy involvement in the attack . |
| 25 | ft was wrong , one Kufran Islamic socialist explained , that a man who owned a drilling machine should keep 80 per cent of what it earned each month while those who worked it should share only 20 per cent . |
| 26 | The Committee was explicit about what it considered these pressures to be , saying that they had ‘ encountered several cases in which young men have been induced by means of gifts or money or hospitality to indulge in homosexual behaviour with older men ’ . |
| 27 | And the benefits of this is that er , as you know , erm , inflation takes over , and we measure our spending power against that , five pounds in your pocket today , wo n't buy what tomorrow , what it bought this year , and next year , what it would have bought this year . |
| 28 | Rolls-Royce , meanwhile , would concentrate on what it did best — building the most luxurious cars in the world . |
| 29 | Formed by Beamish in 1918 as a patriotic organization dedicated to the eradication of what it termed alien influences in British life , the Britons campaigned for the forced expulsion of Jews from England and for the revoking of the Act of Settlement of 1700 , which would ensure that immigrants and their descendents would be ineligible to hold public office . |
| 30 | What it needed next was a period of stable sales . |