Example sentences of "[was/were] what i [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Absolute total recall — it was Portia 's famous ‘ The quality of mercy is not strained ’ from The Merchant of Venice — and mercy was what I was asking for , literally , at that moment . |
| 2 | And that now was what I was travelling to Stuttgart determined to win . |
| 3 | I thought that that was what I was here for , that he was something special , chosen by God . |
| 4 | But I ruined my own life — and more importantly I ruined Ashi 's too — because I refused to admit that I was what I was . ’ |
| 5 | That was what I was really after . |
| 6 | Questions of human dignity and equality are however not matters which one should have to argue ( which was what I was forced to do when I was in the church ) . |
| 7 | But I 'm sure that that was what I was somehow looking for . |
| 8 | I went to a sensitivity-training center and I learned body language , but it did n't help my marriage , because I was a tool of male imperialism and that was what I was really resenting all the time . |
| 9 | That was what I was trying to get at . |
| 10 | So that was what I was doing in Baldersdale — looking for survivors in what has long been known to be a botanically rich area . |
| 11 | It did n't make me drunk , which was what I was confidently expecting it to do . |
| 12 | That was what I was doing , dying . |
| 13 | I thought that was what I was being paid for . |
| 14 | But I was so proud of my beautiful daughter , and I wanted to make up to you for the years we lost before I met your mama again ; I wanted you to have the best of everything , and I thought that that was what I was giving you . |
| 15 | Dolores insisted on accompanying me , and because that was what I was supposed to be doing , escorting her , I did n't raise any objections . |
| 16 | I was told when I was in my regiment I was told my country , it was n't my country that was what I was told . |
| 17 | Timing was what I was talking about . |
| 18 | Oh that was what I was remembering . |
| 19 | Yes after Lucy about , er yes that was what I was getting around to , by that time of course I should be erm |
| 20 | and from what I understood he was already married anyway , never , never was mentioned here , but I did hear it , whether it was true or not I 'm not say it , but I was told that he was already married and divorced to marry her , that was what I was told , no I mean I do n't know , but but I 'm damn sure that I know |