Example sentences of "[Wh det] [pers pn] [be] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trouble with being what you were was that although your judgement was impeccable , the rest of the world just did n't always know it . |
| 2 | Brodkey 's relations with his adoptive mother Doris , a Jewish Clytemnestra to his haunted Orestes , involve a bizarre attempt at incestuous symbiosis ( 'The feeling of obliteration or castration or whatever it was was unsettling as hell' ) and a deathbed reconciliation with a nervous breakdown as a postlude . |
| 3 | What it was was a dirty patch of fenced-off sand with a few straggly trees and occasional tufts of scrawny grass . |
| 4 | No I think what it was was a load of bullshit they give me . |
| 5 | What it was was I 'm in charge , no you 're not and if you meet two people give me two people who are both power like |
| 6 | There must be one , but what it was was beyond her . |
| 7 | Oh no what it was was |
| 8 | One trying to get in one side and the other one I think that 's what it was was n't it ? |
| 9 | Well , what it was was , erm , cos my grandmother was very ill , granddad 's sort of |
| 10 | Franz Klammer made a skiing simulator and he had it in his garage , and what it was was a series of rolling logs . |