Example sentences of "[adv] what [pers pn] had [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everywhere there was evidence of abandoned normality as though everyone had put down what they had been doing , and then simply vanished ; half finished cups of coffee , dishevelled beds , games of scrabble and cards laid out , play suspended . |
| 2 | Erm it is always been planned that the this er release of the flight control system will be phased through five steps and the capabilities at first flight are more or less what we had been planning er right from the outset . |
| 3 | Erm it has always been planned that the this er release of the flight control system , will be phased through five steps and the capabilities at first flight are more or less what we had been planning er right from the outset . |
| 4 | And for thirty years I and my fellow teachers , as we went back to our classrooms , have said to ourselves , ‘ Well , back to reality ’ ’ , and had gone on doing just what we had been doing all along , which was to try to bribe , scare or shame children into learning what someone else had decided they ought to know . |
| 5 | Planning is just what she had been doing . |
| 6 | That was just what I had been doing for the past four months innocent of impending restrictions . |
| 7 | Eventually , I found out about the Dog Welfare and Rescue Society in Stokenchurch and spoke to the kennel manager who said just what I had been longing to hear . |
| 8 | It was not what she had been expecting . |
| 9 | His voice was gravelly , deep , sure … and distinctly not what she had been expecting . |
| 10 | of course , that 's exactly what she had been doing . |
| 11 | ‘ We 'll mourn for it when we have time , ’ said Floy , touching her hand , and Fenella looked at him gratefully , because that was exactly what she had been feeling . |
| 12 | He joined the church 's prayer for boldness to do exactly what he had been told by the authorities not to do . |
| 13 | I now looked up what I had been prescribed : |
| 14 | She remembered quite clearly what she had been doing scarce ten minutes ago . |
| 15 | With a small smile that proved he knew very well what she had been thinking , he went out , and she tried to relax her tense muscles . |
| 16 | Oddly the thought still writhed within him — the thought of other men using the body he had loved himself , being given wholesale what he had been offered as an inestimable gift . |
| 17 | Even with them pleine-airsme was not quite what it had been made out to be . |
| 18 | Lindsey sank back into her seat , trying to digest the thought that that was precisely what she had been trying to do from the minute she had met him , and it had n't got her very far . |
| 19 | This is precisely what he had been attempting in " The Dry Salvages " , for example , and it is significant that he used much the same phrase in his demand that contemporary poetry should have such a strong relationship to current speech that " the listener or reader can say " that is how I should talk if I could talk poetry " . |
| 20 | He was so persuasive , and the salary was twice what I had been getting . |