Example sentences of "what [pron] [was/were] that [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Though what it was that she knew , she could not at that moment have said . |
| 9 | Do n't you know what it was that you came for ? ’ |
| 10 | Once again she wondered what it was that he had done in the war to make Anthony so angry . |
| 11 | ‘ Perhaps — ’ But he stopped , and Anne was left wondering what it was that he had nearly said . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |