Example sentences of "[adv] what they [vb past] was " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What happened was , the track was very heavy and I guess Michael wanted to go more toward a ballad direction , so what they did was sell the song to Cher and she sang on it . |
| 2 | So what they did was introduce statistical techniques whereby not every bullet was inspected , a sample was inspected and great conclusions were drawn from very careful examination of a small number of , of items . |
| 3 | Well that 's interesting the Kipsigies are er traditional people who live in Kenya and if they have , in other words er men have to pay a certain amount to the erm you know , woman if they 're gon na marry her and what they did was they study the and related it to the , to the girl that was actually getting married and what they found of course was that it fits the predictions of our theory er just as you 'd expect , given that the cultural things you have to allow for like , like for example in that most traditional cultures they like er women to be plump as we 'll see in the , in the actually fat is critical to female fertility and er so they might not have been plump , so what they did was they simply weighed the girls and they compared their , their , their weights with , with the , with the and sure enough strong correlation the fatter the girl , the bigger the . |
| 4 | So what they did was they sent people out to listen to him , you 've got evidence of that as early on as Chapter One and Chapter Two . |
| 5 | Okay , so what they did was they looked at what would be an attractive reinforcer in their work force erm , if if they were to persuade them to wear ear defenders , and they found out , from doing research in the work force , that consumer durables would be appropriate . |
| 6 | So what they did was they went elsewhere . |
| 7 | My first suspicion that these chaps were not what they seemed was aroused as I listened . |
| 8 | And so they they virtually what they said was would we would we again renew our pledge that they came through Edingley . |
| 9 | I 'm glad to say they all finished as friends over a glass of beer … but there were no cheers for the Tredworth rugby team from Gloucester on saturday … they were hoping for a fairy tale in their Provincial Cup Semi-Final … sadly what they got was a horror story |