Example sentences of "[adv] what [vb past] [be] [that] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Pretty much what happened was that I 'd been waiting all this time to be successful , to achieve whatever I was going to achieve , now I had and I was sitting in this flippin' hotel thinking : This is not where it 's at .
2 So what happened is that the literate women arranged their time so that every day they now have an hour set by to sit down with one of the illiterates and that 's how the literacy campaign is operating at the moment .
3 Now the member ship up to nine September nineteen twenty six was between about three and four hundred thousand but usually what happened is that when people would join they , they put their , their name down and it was the whole family joined
4 Now what happened was that these particles had very peculiar K properties .
5 Well what happened was that in nine in the nineteen fifties the late nineteen fifties the Americans designed and , and built six Vanguard rockets to try and catch the Russians up .
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