Example sentences of "[Wh det] i [was/were] [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's what I was born to be . |
| 2 | What I was looking at was identical with the " White Cliffs of Dover " in England and the rolling plateau of Picardy in France , the quarries of southern Sweden and the cliffs of eastern Denmark . |
| 3 | ‘ What I was thinking about was Mrs Ramsay . ’ |
| 4 | And what I was going to be getting for myself at some stage cos I 'd like to do the rest of the curtains myself . |
| 5 | As soon as my mother saw the train on its way , we took the renowned Edinburgh cable car to a photographer at Piershill to have my very first picture taken , which was a shouted instruction as my father disappeared into the darkness of a Princes Street tunnel and the acrid smoke of what I was told to be a " Puffing Billy " . |
| 6 | However , I pointed out that what I was asking for was no more than would comprise a normal police station in a provincial town and that there were many economies to be made by giving up our offices in central London . |
| 7 | Well that 's what I was waiting for were n't it ? |
| 8 | I 've just asked Kurt whether the heroin rumours are true — to which he 's laughed , said ‘ No ! ’ and made me feel his arms for any tell-tale scars or holes , though obviously shooting up is n't the only way to take smack and to be honest I 'm not sure I knew what I was meant to be looking for , but still , it 's an impressive gesture at the very least — when Anton walks in with a woman I recognise as Susan Silver , manager of Soundgarden . |
| 9 | What I was talking about are your inclinations and I would suggest that you know nothing about them at all . ’ |
| 10 | Oh no no no oh no that th er I that is not in er what I was talking about was the social values , er not the existence of the welfare state . |