Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] what i [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you know he really has , I looked in one day , it was very nice , they were n't what I wanted but they nice for anybody |
| 2 | Oh I do n't , I did n't see it you see , I knew it , it was only what I read |
| 3 | In military terms , I was called a runner , and as I had no bicycle at that time , running was literally what I did ! |
| 4 | As before , a guard accompanied me to the barracks ; but this time , on the way back , we met two officers : it was exactly what I had hoped for . |
| 5 | Mr Clarke said last night : ‘ What I said after the meeting was exactly what I said at the meeting and exactly the same as I have been saying since the White Paper was published . |
| 6 | ‘ It was exactly what I said to Kathleen when she was so worried about you in hospital . ’ |
| 7 | But in 1976 , when Jean Darnall gave me this advice , I knew exactly what she meant and I knew that what she recommended was exactly what I wanted to do . |
| 8 | That was exactly what I wanted to happen ! |
| 9 | ‘ That was exactly what I did intend to do . |
| 10 | That was just what I had been doing for the past four months innocent of impending restrictions . |
| 11 | And I said it was just what I wanted . |
| 12 | And when I went into Do-it-all they had a wallpaper and bed linen , and it was just what I wanted ! |
| 13 | ‘ I spent nearly three seasons at Oakwell and it was just what I needed after City had killed my confidence , ’ said Beresford . |
| 14 | It was just what I needed to do the job of calf muscle for Jimbo . |
| 15 | ‘ That hour together was just what I did n't want to happen . ’ |
| 16 | I would n't describe anything that was not what I had gone through and understood myself — in my experience or out of my imagination and other people 's words would n't do . |
| 17 | I add a few words of my own only because of the difference of opinion between your Lordships on this question and because what I said about the availability of certiorari in my speech in Thomas v. University of Bradford [ 1987 ] A.C. 795 has been interpreted to include an error of law by the Divisional Court and the Court of Appeal [ 1991 ] 1 W.L.R. 1277 which was not what I had intended . |
| 18 | This was not what I had planned . |
| 19 | I 'd a lump on my head the size of a goose egg ; I 'd been through some kind of hell in the spaces ; I 'd prayed for … it was not what I 'd prayed for at all . |
| 20 | The point is that I made a mistake — oh , I do have a feeling for him , that helped to confuse the issue , we do like one another — what I have come to see is that my falling for Lewis was not what I took it to be . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ It was not what I expected , but I have not yet had a real chance to find out what went wrong . |
| 22 | I knew with absolute clarity that this was not what I wanted . |
| 23 | This was not what I wanted . |
| 24 | And although I knew by then that I was wretchedly unhappy in comparison with other girls of my age , this was still what I wanted to do , because however joyless and painful the present might be , the future could have been even worse . |
| 25 | It certainly was n't what I planned . ’ |
| 26 | It was n't what I planned . |
| 27 | ‘ St Maarten was too crowded , and was n't what I expected . |
| 28 | ‘ It was n't what I meant . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ That was n't what I meant . ’ |
| 30 | It was n't what I meant to say , but that 's the way it came out . |