Example sentences of "[was/were] and [Wh det] [pron] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wished to know not simply that he was looking for something , but what it was and what it looked like . |
| 2 | He was a successful president not because he ‘ focused ’ — few men can have done so less — and not because he was the ‘ great communicator ’ , but because he knew who he was and what he believed in . |
| 3 | He knew who he was and what he stood for , and he was not ashamed of it . |
| 4 | Preston , in the idle early hours when he was n't watching fifties horror movies , sometimes speculated on what kind of person he was and what he did for a living . |
| 5 | He looked elegantly at home , quite above this sort of thing , and she could n't help wondering who he actually was and what he did for a living . |
| 6 | She wondered who this Domino was and what she looked like . |