Example sentences of "[verb] what it was [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then he let go of my sleeve as if he 'd confessed what it was he had to confess . |
| 2 | No doubt she was wondering what it was he expected to find . |
| 3 | And later I decided what it was I believed about love . |
| 4 | Though he did not know it , and never would , he was looking at the blazing jet-pipe of Colonel Bowers ' F-15 Eagle as both men raced on different missions towards the British capital , neither man knowing what it was he carried . |
| 5 | But the gabble was such that the child could n't distinguish what it was they wanted , until the old woman cried , ‘ No candy rock today ! 'T IS all gone , all gone , ’ at which , one after the other , the children , as if at a signal , stopped gabbling and took up the chant : ‘ Raggie Aggie ! |
| 6 | Now I knew what it was I had then only felt … |
| 7 | To this day I can not recall what it was I said to him . |
| 8 | ‘ Oh , shut up , Bob , ’ said Dyson , peering into the engine and trying to see what it was he had touched . |
| 9 | Dressed in flowing trousers and a tunic of billowing rose — they let her have clothes , now , providing she chose them herself by drawing what it was she wanted — she spent hours sitting at the table in the artificial sun over the balcony , the day 's book-cube dangling forgotten from her fingers . |
| 10 | She was about to turn away , not wishing to disturb the Master of the Inner Chamber , when she realised what it was she had found strange . |
| 11 | While one may reasonably ask what someone shouted , it hardly makes sense to ask what it was they screamed . |
| 12 | But quite often Quigley will keep his audience in such a state of suspense that he forgets what it was he intended to say . |
| 13 | He started to explain what it was he wanted , with sentries shouting along the corridors outside , but was cut short . |
| 14 | When asked to show what it was he offered a bottle opener , but Miss Sherwin said as he did so he dropped a polythene bag containing 12 LSD tabs and a small amount of cannabis resin . |