Example sentences of "[was/were] what they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would stay , here where things were what they seemed to be , where trees were trees , hens were hens . |
| 2 | Like Isobel , they were what they looked , quiet people doing very necessary jobs and a that moment grieving for one of their number who had left them . |
| 3 | ‘ When I was designing Metaltronix gear , I made everything bigger , for product visibility , but I would get letters telling me that the Marshall ‘ standard ’ head dimensions were what they wanted , so that 's what I based these new amp heads on . |
| 4 | Horses and wagon were what they wanted , and what they took , for all we could do to stop them . |
| 5 | Nearly all Cora-Beth 's friends were what they called ‘ dating ’ , although many were even younger than she was . |
| 6 | Champagne Rose was what they drank and , with liqueurs and coffee , the total bill came to £2.4s.6d . |
| 7 | There was what they called gangs you see , you know they had planks did n't they . |
| 8 | The route , at least , was what they 'd said , and so with nothing worse than the altitude to battle against , we reached the summit with ample time to absorb the views . |
| 9 | The point was what they offered valued the company at its market worth . |
| 10 | On the subconscious level it was what they desired to heal their own castration , their own sense of lack . ’ |
| 11 | erm there 'd be a bit of er an anti reaction from the villages towards that and I think that was what they worried about , and that 's why they , they adopted a more careful policy of more , more like suggesting , I E they , they introduced these mutual aid teams and suggested that it would be beneficial for the peasants to join together in these teams . |
| 12 | And while these women were not displeased with the role of housewife they did not like housework , despite the fact that this was what they spent most of their time doing . |
| 13 | Adobe needed to produce Bezier curve outlines of various fonts for use with their PostScript page description language and Illustrator , in a cruder form , was what they developed and used . |
| 14 | I just thought at that time she had died , for that was what they told me . |
| 15 | Not self-pity but exertion was what they told themselves was the first requirement , applying their skills to return to normal , to restore the status quo . |
| 16 | All you had to go on was what they told you . |
| 17 | This was what they told one another , and what they wrote down in The Book of Nome . |
| 18 | Tighter , sweeter , better than a woman any day — that was what they said . |
| 19 | ‘ That was what they said , yes . ’ |
| 20 | Or that was what they said . |
| 21 | That was what they said how to do . |
| 22 | There was a faint murmur of satisfaction , though only a murmur , for it was what they had all expected . |
| 23 | Faces which earlier had seemed a little sombre were now wreathed in ecstatic smiles , and it was clear that this was what they had come to hear . |
| 24 | That , after all , was what they had come for . |
| 25 | What the people wanted on the fen was what they had already : grazing . |
| 26 | They were right to insist that documents should not be released to the court because , he said , that was what they had to do . |
| 27 | This was what they had to do . |
| 28 | It was what they had expected of University , but had not hoped so soon to find . |
| 29 | This was what they had come to hear . |
| 30 | Was what they had taken to be a problem of the stomach something more deadly ? |