Example sentences of "[be] what [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 The room looked to be what they had thought ; a store or perhaps a fuelhouse which might be left unattended for most of the time .
2 Would that be what I wanted to do ?
3 There were what we got delivered yesterday was all we had , apart from a few bottles
4 Shops were what she had missed most when she herself had been house-bound .
5 The words were what she had longed to hear , and she stayed silent , savouring the most wonderful moment of her life .
6 ‘ If I had been what you 'd imagined , I 'd look like an assassin , and you 'd say I was too obvious . ’
7 Despite what had happened between them , because it had been what she had wanted at the time and because Rune had been a generous and not over-demanding lover , and because she loved him , her own sense of self-esteem had remained whole .
8 Well that 's what they 'd said to Melody Maker .
9 Yeah that 's what they 'd said to Melody Maker .
10 She let the woman lodger answer since that 's what they seemed to want .
11 We gave them a sheet of paper which said what we were , what we 're doing , and said please , if you want any help in any of those areas , just tick the box , and if you do n't want any help , tick this little box , and that 's what they had to fill in .
12 But there was always them as just wanted to come and do nothing and pick the money up and that 's what they had to sort out the firms .
13 Well you see that 's what they had to do .
14 That 's what they liked to do , and that 's what they celebrated .
15 That 's what they wanted to do .
16 He had that in mind all the time to cut the wages down , that 's what they wanted to do .
17 Yeah but yo , that 's what they did change , you looking for the fault ?
18 And that 's what we got doing it that way .
19 And so we 'll say , well that 's what we planned to achieve , this is what we actually achieved .
20 Well that 's what we did to get this far
21 Stop 'em having any any slate at all , that 's what we wanted to do .
22 That 's what it had said on the door .
23 ‘ I suppose in a way that 's what it did feel like .
24 That 's what he came to do , ’ Albert said .
25 That 's what he came to see .
26 I said bye then see you sometime , bye and I put the phone down , and she said what does she want then and I said oh she wanted to know where , you know she 'd gone and I said oh I have n't seen her all week you know after , while we was hanging , she was hanging pictures , erm , she come through , she said oh they look wonderful she said I 've got pictures she said , I want my mountain put up in my lounge , with that June burst out laughing , Neil went through and he , he put her pictures up and he was gone there , he said , god he said , you know literally it 's a day to hang pictures , I said well do n't worry about it , you know , that 's what he said to do
27 Well that 's what he said did n't he ?
28 He did n't want a job that 's what he had said he wanted to have time out he did n't want a job he could get a job when he wanted to , he ca n't now turn round and blame it on
29 That 's what he had told Grimm .
30 And that 's what he had to pay .
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