Example sentences of "what [vb past] [pers pn] [be] [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What shook Burton was not that he would appear to ‘ the World ’ , i.e. the metropolitan thespians , as someone who had failed in a straight contest with another rising young actor , Scofield — although that made him angry and inflamed his competitive instincts — what shook him was that he had no real idea why it had happened . |
| 2 | What puzzled him was that the beautiful creature could never have arranged itself in that unnatural position . |
| 3 | ‘ What shocked me was that one wall could make such a difference , ’ he said . |
| 4 | ‘ WHAT worried me was that I might discover I could n't write at all . ’ |
| 5 | What worried him was that the man was somehow rejecting the film , announcing that he did n't think life was really like that . |
| 6 | And what struck me was that the costumes were all sort of like you see portraits of Elizabethan dress . |
| 7 | And what struck me was that the costumes were all sort of like you see portraits of Elizabethan dress . |
| 8 | What impressed me was that there was a perceptible interval between the explosion and the time at which Bernal ducked down into our shelter trench . |
| 9 | What infuriated her was that they charged three shillings for afternoon tea , so she decided to forgo it because she knew the men would still be out on the links . ’ |