Example sentences of "[det] be what [pron] had [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is what I had willed to execute . |
| 2 | This is what I had set out for last week . ’ |
| 3 | Faces which earlier had seemed a little sombre were now wreathed in ecstatic smiles , and it was clear that this was what they had come to hear . |
| 4 | This was what they had come to hear . |
| 5 | This was what she had achieved , and indeed in the 1950s when she was at work it was an enviable position for a woman . |
| 6 | And then , very deliberately , as if this was what he had decided , O said , very quietly , but very definitely , out loud , baby . |
| 7 | His friends were calling to him , urging him on , and he was thinking that if this was what he had wanted all these years he was afraid of it . |
| 8 | Cobalt nodded , indicating this was what he had suspected . |
| 9 | Well , he had got Phil Jordan talking , and this was what he had got . |
| 10 | This was what he had looked forward to throughout those long hard years of business life in Africa . |
| 11 | But the extension of the tax — for that is what it had become — to inland areas aroused resentment and opposition . |
| 12 | It looked like a small , run-down Victorian railway hotel , which was fine , really , because that is what it had started off as , some time round the middle of the last century in an age of soaring optimism when all things seemed possible , or at least profitable , even the commercial success of a travellers ' rest beside a branch line in the middle of nowhere . |
| 13 | Her mother would have been happier if she had seen her walking or going off swimming , but after all , she was resting and that 's what she had brought her here for , and perhaps she was turning things over in her mind . |
| 14 | He did n't want a job that 's what he had said he wanted to have time out he did n't want a job he could get a job when he wanted to , he ca n't now turn round and blame it on |
| 15 | That 's what he had told Grimm . |
| 16 | There was no hurrying them , that 's what he had learned since he had been in Baghdad . |
| 17 | Look , that 's what I had left . |
| 18 | That 's what it had said on the door . |
| 19 | ‘ We then told the Daily Express that that was what we had done . |
| 20 | Owen realized that was what they had come for . |
| 21 | She should have felt happy , relieved — that was what she had wanted , was n't it ? |
| 22 | On the opening day the congregation , for that was what it had become , listened uneasily to the local Rector whose refusal to wear a clerical collar had not gone unnoticed . |
| 23 | And I 'd certainly never sleepwalked before , if that was what I had done . |
| 24 | At least that was what I had intended to say ; owing to a tonal error I declared to an astonished audience ‘ Excuse me . |
| 25 | That was what I had come to . |
| 26 | Because that was what he had decided to do . |
| 27 | What he had just said , if that was what he had said , was as frightening as anything else that had happened since my dad died . |
| 28 | Someone ought to talk to Lily Bates , yes , that was what he had said and meant , but it might not have been him if he had n't seen her for himself that afternoon between five and six , the period between Hook Road School closing and Rose leaving her office at Belmodes ; the time Steve would have made his own . |
| 29 | After all , that was what he had come for . |
| 30 | He was walking in and out of the bays , studying the bookshelves as though that was what he had come for . |