Example sentences of "what [vb past] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know , that 's what I said , that 's what got it |
| 2 | I was longing to get back to it , or perhaps its associations with Toby were what lent it this sudden magnetism . " |
| 3 | What made it more extraordinary was that everything had conspired against them , from the Home Unions committee 's refusal to grant them official Lions status right through to the kick-off . |
| 4 | What made it more significant was that over 7,000 Sheffield fans were following us . ’ |
| 5 | What made it so enchanting was the setting . |
| 6 | It was , as the Duchess said in her speech , an exciting event because Derbyshire had so few smaller manor houses of this type open to the public — and what made it all the more special was the fact that Eyam Hall is still the family home of the Wrights , who built ( or rather rebuilt ) it , a few years after the plague , in 1671 . |
| 7 | ‘ What made it into an island then ? ’ |
| 8 | But what made it so was the school , and the way the courses were taught . |
| 9 | What made it worse , was that the police had the time of the tram-cars and the time it took to get to a certain stop . |
| 10 | It was a dangerous time , and what made it even more dangerous was the arrival of some strange new neighbours . |
| 11 | I could listen to this over and over again , but I guess that 's what made it a hit . |
| 12 | What made it fun on the night was the fact that we knew what we were doing . |
| 13 | ( It was also , of course , disgusting and deplorable : that 's what made it such a success . ) |
| 14 | What made it more difficult for the social workers in Orkney , she said , was the very small size of the department ; they had few colleagues with whom to share the stress . |
| 15 | What made it worth recording several centuries later was that Ella was successful ; for the next fifteen years or so he established his authority in the south by force of arms , firmly ‘ pacifying ’ recalcitrant Britons . |
| 16 | And that 's what made it work . ’ |
| 17 | That 's what made it so hard . |
| 18 | This was not snoring but a kind of clicking , irregular and sporadic — that was what made it irritating — and liable to start when least expected . |
| 19 | His wife was ill , very ill , and what made it even worse was that he felt responsible for her illness . |
| 20 | That 's what made it seem all the more strange when she turned in on herself , so to speak , in the end . ’ |
| 21 | What made it worse was that he had a terrible cold at the time . |
| 22 | Especially on the second night , I had the feeling that he wanted to talk , and what made it the more interesting was the variety of his experiences and the mature way in which he alluded to them . |
| 23 | What made it so difficult for Spaniards during the 1930s to coexist peacefully ? |
| 24 | In a taped interview with Jill Jones , Head of Science in a comprehensive , which I shall quote from several times , I asked her , after she had been talking for a while about the frustrations , what made it all worthwhile . |
| 25 | What made it easy was that earlier charters had been produced by so many different monastic scriptoria in so many house styles that spotting the inauthentic was a task for the dedicated scholar — who in any case was more likely to be employed in propagating fraud than in hunting it out . |
| 26 | What made it worse was that Prince Charles seemed less concerned about her predicament than that of his friend Camilla Parker-Bowles . |
| 27 | That 's what made it happen in a way . |
| 28 | This was my father 's first visit to her since the war ; what made it possible was the free travel concession he now had , working for British Railways as a painter and decorator . |
| 29 | However , what made it special were the theme rooms . |
| 30 | What made it worse was that his face remained so still , as expressionless as it had been earlier when discussing trivia with the Doctor . |