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 . |