Example sentences of "[was/were] what [pers pn] [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were what we got delivered yesterday was all we had , apart from a few bottles |
| 2 | Shops were what she had missed most when she herself had been house-bound . |
| 3 | The words were what she had longed to hear , and she stayed silent , savouring the most wonderful moment of her life . |
| 4 | The route , at least , was what they 'd said , and so with nothing worse than the altitude to battle against , we reached the summit with ample time to absorb the views . |
| 5 | The point was what they offered valued the company at its market worth . |
| 6 | On the subconscious level it was what they desired to heal their own castration , their own sense of lack . ’ |
| 7 | They were right to insist that documents should not be released to the court because , he said , that was what they had to do . |
| 8 | This was what they had to do . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | That , after all , was what they had come for . |
| 11 | This was what they had come to hear . |
| 12 | Owen realized that was what they had come for . |
| 13 | It was what they had expected of University , but had not hoped so soon to find . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Was what they had taken to be a problem of the stomach something more deadly ? |
| 16 | That was what they seemed to have in common , that and Rufus 's brother and Adam knowing each other already , but after a while Adam got to see things he admired in Rufus , his toughness , the way he 'd got himself organized and in hand , the way he knew where he was going and yet still could be amusing and casual . |
| 17 | Sometimes the bible surprises us a little bit of course , and it puts it finger on things that we perhaps do n't really want to talk about or we do n't even consider as sins and the bible is quite clear that not all sins are what we do often there what we do n't do in parable that Jesus told concerning the traveller , the man who went down to Jericho , we do n't condemn the priest and the levite for what they did , but we do condemn them for what they did n't do , their sin was not what they did , it was what they left undone , going over and looking at the man was very note worthy , as least there was some interest there and we do n't condemn them for that , but we do condemn them for hurrying along and not reaching out and helping the man in the Pistol of James and chapter four and verse seventeen James says there , any one then who knows the good he ought to do and does n't do it , sins so the sins that you and I comment or the sins rather that we are guilty of are not just the things that we do there of times the things that we do n't do and sometimes there more difficult for us to put a finger on , we can justify them so very easily its been said that all it needs for evil to triumph , is for good men to say or to do nothing well lets look at the , that , illu illustration there that we have in the second book of kings . |
| 18 | He knew it was what they wanted to do , what they had planned to do , so why did n't they just do it then ? |
| 19 | er and that is what the peasants wanted I mean th th that was what they thought they were gon na get out of revolution , that was what they wanted to get out of revolution |
| 20 | Why are there grave areas , areas of uncertainty and responsibility erm Rivers Authority er Area Manager I believe , Mr er presented the position from their point of view er in particular circumstances on the night of thirtieth December er the er Southern Water whose responsibility is primarily sewage erm er describes circumstances that they have been contending with and a great deal of criticism erm was what we had to anticipate if you like or do anything er to contend with the unusual circumstances of that night erm the consequence was that a large number of new houses in the very close to the that runs through Barnham and under the railway there erm and er not ordinary surplus water flooding , but sewage flooding and the consequences then for many years er it 's obviously going to give , quite apart from having to live with it , er it will on the properties themselves and adversely affect er the ability of individuals to sell them off . |
| 21 | Well it was what we had to carry you see . |
| 22 | ‘ We then told the Daily Express that that was what we had done . |
| 23 | And this was what we proposed to do , based on the Dutch ship ‘ Plancius ’ , a sturdy forty metre long ex-pilot-boat which was well equipped for Arctic exploration with up to twenty-four passengers . |
| 24 | ‘ I know there may be days when I feel too tired , but you see , I decided … we both decided that this was what we wanted to do . |
| 25 | That was what we liked to hear . |
| 26 | All I needed was 10 pence — which was what you had to pay in those days if you said you came from the previous stop — but I did n't even have that . |
| 27 | If that was what you did to keep control that was what was needed . ’ |
| 28 | That was what you wanted to talk about . ’ |
| 29 | If that was what you decided to do . ’ |
| 30 | Spain was what you tried to wake up from |