Example sentences of "what they [was/were] [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When their reports of what they were thinking about were examined , it was found that these were frequently bizarre , commonly involved complex stories with visual imagery and , so far as the experimenters were concerned , were indistinguishable from dream reports . |
| 2 | But what they were getting at was n't so much that the coverage was favouring one party over another but that it simply did n't relate to them , the actual voters in the constituency . |
| 3 | When made with the addition of stock they Jose all character and cease to be what they were intended to be . |
| 4 | She never did tell people what they were going to be doing . |
| 5 | The format worked well because the interviewees were never told in advance what they were going to be asked . |