Example sentences of "what it be [conj] [pers pn] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could you now tell us what it is that you knew about Mr ? |
| 2 | I do n't know exactly what it was but he started really working hard at school . |
| 3 | I could n't see what it was but it made a funny crackling noise . ’ |
| 4 | Well I felt , I just did n't know what it was but it lacked the sort of charm that it had before . |
| 5 | Sometimes we will be going upstairs to get something but , by the time we are there , we have forgotten what it was that we went for . |
| 6 | Friend stood back — or rather , his pattern spun off a little way so that she could see what it was that they had built inside the black of infinity . |
| 7 | Er but nobody could tell me for certain what it was that they intended to use it for , er but it was apparently not guaranteed that it would continue to be used er as a market hall . |
| 8 | In the middle of this , Boy switched to a documentary made by a group of prostitutes which showed married men sitting nervously on the edges of beds in hotel rooms , sitting on neatly flowered bedspreads and having difficulty ( they were embarrassed by the female camera crew ) saying exactly what it was that they wanted to do for their thirty pounds . |
| 9 | This regular weekly contact , together with the organised group visits , meant that the students approached teaching practice knowing that they could organise a lesson in terms of defining in advance what it was that they wanted the children to learn how to do ; and then , by working backwards , sort out their materials , activities and procedures . |
| 10 | Even so … there is reason to say that I saw him , even though I then neither made , nor could have made any judgement at all , either right or wrong , about who or what it was that I saw . |
| 11 | Even now , I 'm not sure what it was that I wanted to say , and talking to my new friend is the only way I am learning . |
| 12 | Though what it was that she knew , she could not at that moment have said . |
| 13 | Do n't you know what it was that you came for ? ’ |
| 14 | Once again she wondered what it was that he had done in the war to make Anthony so angry . |
| 15 | ‘ Perhaps — ’ But he stopped , and Anne was left wondering what it was that he had nearly said . |
| 16 | He closed his eyes and tried with all the concentration of which he was capable to see with his mind exactly what it was that he had wanted to paint . |
| 17 | Even before he was fully awake he felt the oppression of unpleasant memory , the threat of worse to come , although he could n't remember exactly what it was that he remembered . |
| 18 | I have been thinking about my nearly twenty years friendship with him and especially what it was that he gave me in terms of belief and understanding of the job . |
| 19 | Sir Emmanuel asked Uncle Ned what it was and he said it was a young cuckoo . |
| 20 | and she could n't think what it was and she got a as well , she says er have you eaten any fruit or tomatoes or any , oh she said tomatoes she says did you wash them ? |
| 21 | oh , was that what it was and it jerked your head ? |
| 22 | Because this is a hell of a lot damper today than what it was when I had the salt about you . |
| 23 | Yeah well er the shoeing today is completely different to what it was when I started nearly sixty year ago . |
| 24 | I could n't really tell what it was till she told me , but when she did I could see it . |
| 25 | I wondered what it was as we trailed up the dark nave behind Agrippa , Melford , and others of the Queen 's party . |
| 26 | I did n't even know what it was until I got to the studio . ’ |
| 27 | Dimly he saw that she was holding something , but he did not realize what it was until she spoke again . |
| 28 | what it were when I started going . |