Example sentences of "[is] [adv] what [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The difficulty presented by this use is that , to take ( 11 ) as an example , the seeing already exists at the moment of speech , at the moment of being glad , and , in fact , is apparently what brought about the gladness , hence Jespersen 's term . |
| 2 | That 's exactly what happened to me , three years ago , when the largest company in the United Kingdom , British Petroleum , took me on to run a new venture . |
| 3 | ‘ Well … that 's exactly what happened . |
| 4 | ‘ When the first bell went and I saw the way Lennox was going after him I told the guys watching with me that Ruddock had better watch for that left of Lewis 's or he 'd be counter-punched with the right and get himself knocked out — and that 's exactly what happened . ’ |
| 5 | That 's exactly what happened . ’ |
| 6 | Well , that 's exactly what happened to Woodrow Wilson . |
| 7 | ‘ Before the reign of James the Fifth , a Highland Laird made a trial of his wife for a certain time , and if she did not please him , he was then at liberty to send her away ’ — which is exactly what took place when a Macdonald married a Macleod . |
| 8 | He once said that his ambition was to make of it ‘ the Cathedral Synagogue of Canada , ’ and that is exactly what happened . |
| 9 | That is exactly what happened . |
| 10 | That is exactly what happened : Japan 's net exports of long-term capital soared to $130 billion a year , much larger than the country 's current-account surplus . |
| 11 | This is exactly what happened . |
| 12 | In 1960 , this is exactly what happened when the car was restored and run in the 75th Anniversary parade . |
| 13 | And that is exactly what happened . |
| 14 | That is exactly what happened to her last year but then Ms. Clayton is no ordinary girl . |
| 15 | This is exactly what happened . |
| 16 | This is exactly what happened in Belfast , and the imbalance in the data is probably a fair reflection of the contemporary demographic structure of the city . |
| 17 | That is exactly what happened to her last year but then Ms. Clayton is no ordinary girl . |
| 18 | If that is necessary then that is of course what happened and indeed in many cases that is exactly what happened . |
| 19 | You know , one whiff and it 's clean , and of course with the Nixon pardon this is exactly what happened . |
| 20 | This is exactly what happened . |
| 21 | And working in close relation and discussing things that this is exactly what happened at . |
| 22 | This is exactly what happened in the Australian case of McRae v. Commonwealth Disposals Commission ( 1951 ) . |
| 23 | I can confirm that that is exactly what happened . |
| 24 | However , that is exactly what happened on the 7th of September this year when Christy , 65 , from Kelburne Drive , was reunited not only with his British comrades but also the Germans he bravely fought against . |
| 25 | This is exactly what happened immediately after Live Aid . |
| 26 | As a matter of fact that is exactly what happened on this planet , and we ourselves are among the most recent , if not the strangest and most wonderful , of those consequences . |
| 27 | This is exactly what happened to the London Regional Team when Divisional Managing Director , Peter Kelly , agreed to an evening of Tenpin Bowling at Streatham 's ‘ MEGABOWL ’ . |
| 28 | What I want to know is just what did it take to get him to do that ? |
| 29 | But that is just what happened to fusion research in the United States toward the end of the 1950's . |
| 30 | That is just what happened . |