Example sentences of "was [Wh det] she have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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1 | She nodded , as if this was what she 'd been expecting , and then she took what was probably her first real look at her surroundings . |
2 | Not easy for us , was what she 'd been warning me , being so near and yet so far , so tantalizingly inaccessible to each other . |
3 | I said that this was what she 'd been proposing , dummkopf , but Stuart was n't having any of it . |
4 | Claudia wanted to laugh out loud — that was what she had been telling him for days , but under the joy she was aware of fear making itself known . |
5 | It was what she had been hoping and longing for but there was no surge of delight , only a strong but strangely detached sense of relief that the worst of his ordeal was over . |
6 | That was what she had been waiting for , that unguarded , unforced , totally natural reaction of a lowly apprentice who sees her work unfold like a fairytale . |
7 | And that , then , was what she had been waiting for . |
8 | This was what she had been waiting for since she had first met him though she had never admitted it to herself until now . |
9 | You could tell her it 's her fault , not mine and next time she 's feeling like a bit of fun — if that was what she had been feeling like — maybe she 'd give a chap a chance to explain that there 's already a woman in his flat , a woman he will kick out with the utmost speed if she 'd just hang on , a woman he never even invited into it in the first place . |
10 | That was what she had been going to say . |