Example sentences of "[noun sg] what [pers pn] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet in essence what she said was always the same . |
| 2 | About 8 p.m. that evening Taff and I sat at the side of our slit trench eating what I thought was a rather dubious lump of meat . |
| 3 | Already ahead of him he could see that he would marry , and it might be disastrously , he had that in him , but at the moment what he had was Rose Hilaire and Gabriel and it was 1966 . |
| 4 | The purpose of my question was to extract from the right hon. Gentleman what he thought was meant not by my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Home Department but the new clause . |
| 5 | By then the population of Indians , about a million , was just over a quarter what it had been at the time of the European colonizations of the sixteenth century . |
| 6 | Jesus quickly gave the suit what he hoped were precise instructions , waiting until he was sure of the hole 's period of rotation before whispering , ‘ Activate command sequence … . |
| 7 | Although Douglas was eventually acquitted of any offence , his initial conviction and the methods of the police — which included presenting in court what they claimed was a transcript of their tape of his speech , but which was only one third of the length of another tape-recording which was played to the court — led many Free Presbyterians and sympathizers to believe that the whole force of the state was being directed against them . |
| 8 | I I heard the other day what I thought was one of the best advertisements not to have an animal for Christmas very emotive , er I think it was for the R S P C A , and I I 'm told I do n't think you 've heard it but it b basically it 's it 's er the sound of a er well it 's a human pretending to be a dog really and saying you know , Well this is nice my my er family have taken me to the vet , I did n't think I was ill but never mind . |
| 9 | I do have needs — and last night what I did was satisfy them . ’ |
| 10 | He wanted to stay , and told his father what he thought was needed to capitalize on the enormous potential of the US market . |
| 11 | Her Great-Uncle Isaac , who lived at Low Birk Hatt , used to keep geese and one night just as the light had faded my dad shot what he thought was a duck flying off Hury Reservoir . |
| 12 | She gave Sister what she hoped was a confident smile . |
| 13 | Now he knew that something in her life had caused her great pain and , even though he could n't possibly have any idea what it had been , still she was racked by his knowing even that much about her . |
| 14 | I said at the time what I thought was right , and I stick all through to what I believe to be right . |
| 15 | As he took an eager gulp from his glass , he decided that Hank ought to tell his mother what he had been doing . |
| 16 | we would n't object yes , it was very you know , the emphasis was very different and just as the you know the emphasis on , on the handover erm , he wrote down that we would be happy to stand down and in fact what we said was we |