Example sentences of "[was/were] what they had [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faces which earlier had seemed a little sombre were now wreathed in ecstatic smiles , and it was clear that this was what they had come to hear . |
| 2 | That , after all , was what they had come for . |
| 3 | This was what they had come to hear . |
| 4 | Owen realized that was what they had come for . |
| 5 | It was what they had expected of University , but had not hoped so soon to find . |
| 6 | A spokesman for the regional prosecutor in the central city of Lodz said all officials there knew about the law was what they had read in the papers . |
| 7 | Was what they had taken to be a problem of the stomach something more deadly ? |