Example sentences of "[be] what [pers pn] have [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 | It would be normal well it must be what I 've said . |
| 3 | Before discussing the findings in detail , one is worth highlighting : of the 94 applicants , over half , 54% were what we have called migrants . |
| 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 | And those are what we 've thought out for British Rail . |
| 7 | Bold assertions are what we have come to expect from visiting Americans of dubious pedigree but they come to Biggs almost as an afterthought . |
| 8 | These are what I 've got on the disks you see . |
| 9 | But the exclusivity principle does not apply to all such applications : some are what I have called hybrid judicial review actions and such actions need not , but may , be brought under Ord. 53 . |
| 10 | There are what I have called political uses of assessment and there are educational uses . |
| 11 | As one young manager put it : ‘ The only things I know about the army are what I have seen on television ! ’ |
| 12 | ‘ So these are what you 've brought me , ’ he said , as he moved round the four greys admiringly . |
| 13 | Those have you th those are what you 've dropped you say ? |
| 14 | If dumps like this are what she has to put up with , then up with this she 'll put . |
| 15 | ‘ If I had been what you 'd imagined , I 'd look like an assassin , and you 'd say I was too obvious . ’ |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | That 's what they 've made the old Anglesey Road hospital into . |
| 18 | They welcomed John McCarthy and Jill Morrell like heroes and to many that 's what they 've become . |
| 19 | And when you take on the role always hold something in reserve , so it 's what they 've created , but here 's something unexpected about it . |
| 20 | oh , you know , that 's , that 's it because for thirteen years they have dismantled the social system , that 's what they 've done in thirteen years , so they ca n't say overnight , we 'll put it all back because there is n't , there , there is n't the finance there because they 've spent it all to have done what they 've done |
| 21 | and that 's what they 've done , all then that done ripped it |
| 22 | That 's what , that 's what they 've said anyway . |
| 23 | Eat a nome and you die , that 's what they 've learned . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ What I say , constable , is ’ — and now it was Arthur speaking — ‘ there 's such a thing as 'arassment , that 's what they 've told me when I 've been up afore the old bloke . |
| 25 | He 's had about three pints but that 's what they 've told him to take . |
| 26 | If freedom 's what they 've got . |
| 27 | England did n't stipulate ‘ remote ’ — but that 's what they 've got in Santander on the breezy northern coast that 's home to golfing star Seve Ballesteros . |
| 28 | th th they defend that against the Japanese and then in , early in forty seven the come in and take it over so it 's an enormous psychological shock erm and they recognize that erm they , they , they do need to er they recognize that the way is through mass support , they think that 's what they 've got ta get , and they 've got ta get it quickly . |
| 29 | That 's what they 've got . |
| 30 | Aye , aye that 's what they 've got aye . |