Example sentences of "what [pers pn] [verb] be [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She spoke to the prince , she even looked at the prince , but what she said was addressed to the man who sat withdrawn at the prince 's elbow . |
| 2 | And when she reflected , as she frequently did , upon what she had been bred to , she was profoundly puzzled by her own origins . |
| 3 | Its sign consisted of a portrait of a woman 's head , styled in what she guessed was intended to be Tudor fashion . |
| 4 | It 's just what she 's been used to in n it ? |
| 5 | But this was a great feeling of what we had been used to over the years in watching American movies and , with our tongue in cheek and a bit of a giggle , seeing the adventures of the cavalry arriving , And for the first time in our years of combat I had a glow , a rosy glow , inside me and I knew and was certain for the very first time now we could not be beaten . |
| 6 | In brief , the period of modernism has come to an end and nothing ( for which read nothing like what we 've been used to ) has replaced it . |
| 7 | in the end she took the children home with her , erm it was so different from what they 'd been used to in those erm |
| 8 | The ammunition was soft-nosed , not what he 'd been used to but the only kind that was allowed for hunting . |