Example sentences of "[noun] [ex0] was what " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mm January there was what they call the Jo what we always call the Joanna Thor Thorden gale . |
| 2 | And I think where where youngsters were away from school that was a greater reason for them to be at home , to look after home , whilst their parents were ill or if probably one of the other kids were off ill or something like that you see , because in most families there was what three and four children . |
| 3 | And in nineteen twenty er strike going at the present day there was what we called the soup kitchens . |
| 4 | I suppose about one and a half yards , perhaps not that , square and in the corner there was what they called , what we had the copper for boiling the clothes , make it with small coal and , and coal and wood and paper and boil the water and , and my mother used to do the washing there and we had a big old mangle with wooden rollers out in the back yard , that was always out in the back yard . |
| 5 | While at the height of the Bank Holiday disturbances there was what was described as a ‘ Midnight Riot ’ in the vicinity of Euston Road when a policeman attempted to deal with a disorderly woman who ‘ began to shriek , and … screamed that she was being choked ’ . |
| 6 | Last time there was what me , geezer , was there , you know . |