Example sentences of "[was/were] what she had [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shops were what she had missed most when she herself had been house-bound . |
| 2 | The words were what she had longed to hear , and she stayed silent , savouring the most wonderful moment of her life . |
| 3 | The office was what she had imagined . |
| 4 | All he had to do now was what she had asked — get to see Steen , give him the photographs and explain that Jacqui was nothing to do with Bill Sweet . |
| 5 | This was what she had achieved , and indeed in the 1950s when she was at work it was an enviable position for a woman . |
| 6 | It was what she had lived by . |
| 7 | And all she could repeat was what she had said to the ambulance men . |
| 8 | All she wanted to do was yield to it , because it was what she had wanted for the whole time she had been with him . |
| 9 | But it was what she had wanted . |
| 10 | She should have felt happy , relieved — that was what she had wanted , was n't it ? |
| 11 | It was what she had wanted to do since she met him — touch him like this , feel his naked body against her . |
| 12 | The kitchen was what she had expected , dominated by an antique cooker and a fridge the size of a Buick . |
| 13 | Claudia shrugged ; it was what she had expected . |
| 14 | Had she added up the facts wrongly , found him guilty more because it was what she had feared than that it was the truth ? |
| 15 | For here , in a sense , was what she had come to see . |
| 16 | He thought it was what she had come for . |
| 17 | It was what she had known all along . |
| 18 | All he had done was what she had told him to do and when he phoned from the motorway to tell her he 'd done it she 'd gone mad ! |
| 19 | It was what she had longed for . |
| 20 | It was what she had thought only minutes before , so why did she feel this strange little ache to hear him repeat the sentiment ? |