Example sentences of "what [pron] [vb past] be [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Well , what I thought was with this one world week thing at least people that , who go might be more receptive to what we have to say to show and sell .
2 did n't mean that , what I meant was on this er exercise were , was it written down for instance that erm P C has Smith er Smith and Weston number thirty two ?
3 Her head was aching a bit too , but then that was not surprising perhaps after what she 'd been through this evening .
4 Three years of horrifying anarchy and nine governments destroyed what there had been of Ukrainian nationalism .
5 But what they produced were at best permanent monuments of erudition on which we still draw , and at worst giant-sized pamphlets which are now read , if at all , only for their interest as literature .
6 This was a soft seduction of her senses , a sensuous reminder of what they had been to each other and what they had lost .
7 After that , the possibilities for the disturbed were very much what they were to remain until the introduction of the major tranquillisers — and indeed what they had been from Roman times .
8 I thought , would n't it be good though if they , if what they did is on that day we went they pick everyone who wanted like the jobs yeah
9 ‘ There is a land , ’ he whispered , so quiet that most of what he said was at first drowned by her rushings , ‘ that lies to the South , beyond a great blue sea .
10 But during the 1980s , subsidies have been progressively removed , and the IMF-sponsored auction of the local currency ( the kwacha ) meant that by 1987 its purchasing power was only one-third what it had been in 1983 .
11 Since the total grain harvest proved to be a mere 52 per cent of what it had been in 1913 , even the least affected areas had barely enough .
12 The level of truck loadings for 1922 was under one-third of what it had been in 1913 , although there was a vast improvement towards the end of the year .
13 In Britain , the Beeching Report on ‘ Reshaping the Railways ’ ( BRB 1963 ) led to a programme of closures and cutbacks that by 1968 had halved the number of stations , closed 8,000 km of route , halved the number of goods wagons and sharply reduced passenger services ; by 1970 , railway employment was less than half what it had been in 1963 .
14 By 1990 cash spending on the NHS was two and a half times what it had been in 1979 , topping £27 billion and making the DOH the second largest spending department ( NAHAT 1990 ) .
15 His income was less than a half of what it had been before 1914 , and lie was losing capital too .
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