Example sentences of "be [Wh det] [pron] [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The room looked to be what they had thought ; a store or perhaps a fuelhouse which might be left unattended for most of the time . |
| 2 | Would that be what I wanted to do ? |
| 3 | There were what we got delivered yesterday was all we had , apart from a few bottles |
| 4 | Shops were what she had missed most when she herself had been house-bound . |
| 5 | The words were what she had longed to hear , and she stayed silent , savouring the most wonderful moment of her life . |
| 6 | ‘ If I had been what you 'd imagined , I 'd look like an assassin , and you 'd say I was too obvious . ’ |
| 7 | Despite what had happened between them , because it had been what she had wanted at the time and because Rune had been a generous and not over-demanding lover , and because she loved him , her own sense of self-esteem had remained whole . |
| 8 | Perhaps his worst betrayal had been nothing to do with unburnt papers , it had been whatever he had conceded , or let slip , or left ambiguous , at the second long examination after arriving in Edinburgh . |
| 9 | This is a topic which has been the focus of some scholarly discussion , partly because Leonardo himself is known to have visited the city in 1500 , but mainly because Vasari , in the second edition of the Lives , stated that Giorgione had been greatly impressed by some unspecified works of Leonardo 's which he had seen . |
| 10 | This he could recite without the book , a poem of Wilfred Owen 's which he had impressed into the minds of every one of his pupils in Battle Creek . |
| 11 | Well that 's what they 'd said to Melody Maker . |
| 12 | Yeah that 's what they 'd said to Melody Maker . |
| 13 | She let the woman lodger answer since that 's what they seemed to want . |
| 14 | We gave them a sheet of paper which said what we were , what we 're doing , and said please , if you want any help in any of those areas , just tick the box , and if you do n't want any help , tick this little box , and that 's what they had to fill in . |
| 15 | But there was always them as just wanted to come and do nothing and pick the money up and that 's what they had to sort out the firms . |
| 16 | Well you see that 's what they had to do . |
| 17 | That 's what they liked to do , and that 's what they celebrated . |
| 18 | That 's what they wanted to do . |
| 19 | He had that in mind all the time to cut the wages down , that 's what they wanted to do . |
| 20 | Yeah but yo , that 's what they did change , you looking for the fault ? |
| 21 | And that 's what we got doing it that way . |
| 22 | And so we 'll say , well that 's what we planned to achieve , this is what we actually achieved . |
| 23 | Well that 's what we did to get this far |
| 24 | Stop 'em having any any slate at all , that 's what we wanted to do . |
| 25 | That 's what it had said on the door . |
| 26 | ‘ I suppose in a way that 's what it did feel like . |
| 27 | That 's what he came to do , ’ Albert said . |
| 28 | That 's what he came to see . |
| 29 | I said bye then see you sometime , bye and I put the phone down , and she said what does she want then and I said oh she wanted to know where , you know she 'd gone and I said oh I have n't seen her all week you know after , while we was hanging , she was hanging pictures , erm , she come through , she said oh they look wonderful she said I 've got pictures she said , I want my mountain put up in my lounge , with that June burst out laughing , Neil went through and he , he put her pictures up and he was gone there , he said , god he said , you know literally it 's a day to hang pictures , I said well do n't worry about it , you know , that 's what he said to do |
| 30 | Well that 's what he said did n't he ? |