Example sentences of "[to-vb] what it [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was really curious to know what it was like to have your collar felt . |
| 2 | He figured that the women in those shops were too innocent to know what it was really used for . |
| 3 | They did n't seem to know what it was , so had taken her into hospital for observation — or so I understood . |
| 4 | I wanted to know what it was … what it was … that made everybody like you so much . ’ |
| 5 | It was bulky and badly tied up with paper and string but Sarah did n't need to feel it to know what it was . |
| 6 | And you want to know what it was like being fêted by the Stones and Led Zep , and how in ‘ 61 Bob Dylan got his first Greenwich Village pro gig with John Lee ( and was apparently pissed off because the man from the New York Times was far more interested in rapping with the bluesman ) , but he just says it was nice to be able to put young Bob on the bandstand . |
| 7 | But he had demanded to know what it was , and finally poor Louise had been obliged to explain what had happened . |
| 8 | ‘ If something happened , ’ Ellwood said , ‘ I want to know what it was . |
| 9 | Mazzin was out of there in a flash , laughing with his friends who seemed eager to know what it was like in the box . |
| 10 | It would have been invaluable to know what it was they really wanted from their association with the Ping Tiao . |
| 11 | Did I want to know what it was ? |
| 12 | So I was determined to show them I could take a joke and the next time a big stork went over I pretended not to know what it was called and asked my girl . |
| 13 | I was dying to know what it was like . |
| 14 | ‘ You believe in it , so I wanted to know what it was all about . ’ |
| 15 | He did n't seem to know what it was himself , but she knew that it could n't be love , and if it was n't love then none of the other possibilities mattered . |
| 16 | He could hang around , of course , for the following hour or two , pretending to know what it was that he or anybody else should seek to discover . |
| 17 | Take legal advice if you want to , but I intend to know what it was that your uncle confided to you . ’ |
| 18 | It was never catalogued ; I am the first person outside the Unit ever to know what it was doing … |
| 19 | But he must have been thinking something and I would have given anything to know what it was . |
| 20 | I feel , personally this is a pity now we 're coming into Europe and er trying to be international , but I 'm sure there was a very good reason for it , and I sh , I should like to know what it was . |
| 21 | They claimed the Scottish people had a right to know what it was about . |
| 22 | They claimed the Scottish people had a right to know what it was about . |
| 23 | and I 'd want to know what it was you were going to shed . |
| 24 | And I wanted a particular tape , oh I know it was a tape I 'd heard a coach driver using on the er on a coach trip that I was on so I got to know what it was erm and er I went round the usual shops no joy |
| 25 | And me and him started laughing and had to know what it was . |
| 26 | I just tried to write what it was like for me in Toronto , growing up and hanging out , the suburban adolescent heavy metal North American experience . |
| 27 | I knew you 'd thought of something , and when you asked for extra milk it was n't hard to guess what it was . ’ |
| 28 | Then I try to discover what it was in the vision that charmed and translated me . |
| 29 | I shall totter like a decaying bastion of English culture , right out of Somerset Maugham , rum-soaked and crumpled from bar to bar trying to remember What It Was All About ! ’ |
| 30 | Something was wrong , but it was almost impossible to remember what it was . |