Example sentences of "at what [pers pn] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | Helicopter gunships fired missiles at what they thought was a command centre of warlord General Adid . |
| 2 | Helicopter gunships fired missiles at what they thought was a command centre of warlord General Adid . |
| 3 | And many of them were angered at what they said was a lack of information from the ferry company on replacement sailings . |
| 4 | Others were furious at what they said were government strong-arm tactics over the vote . |
| 5 | ( In June 1989 the PDS had declared a boycott of the Assembly in protest at what it claimed was insufficient opposition access to the media . ) |
| 6 | The Mauritanian Workers ' Union ( MWU ) called a 48-hour strike for June 19-20 in protest at what it claimed was a deliberately manufactured deadlock in tripartite wage negotiations between the government , employers and the MWU . |
| 7 | I got there at what I thought was a reasonable hour , around midday . |
| 8 | As the minority population became more vociferous in its demands and more openly nationalist and republican , the stature of Paisley in the loyalist camp was proportionately increased because Protestants looked back at what he had been saying in the early days of O'Neill 's reign and saw that ‘ he had been right all along ’ . |
| 9 | Nicholas looked at what he had been doing , which was nothing very much , and laid down the stone and the knife and , clasping his knees , looked at Diniz . |
| 10 | I went to have a look at what he 'd been doing . |
| 11 | He stood up again at what he thought was the sound of a lorry , which also might have been an aeroplane or a dry gust of wind in the trees behind the house . |
| 12 | Colonel David Stirling was so alarmed at what he believed was the dubious ability of the government to cope with a major strike affecting essential services that he turned to the possibility of forming a private force of military and other experts to assist the civil authorities . |
| 13 | She stopped , horrified at what she had been about to say . |
| 14 | His words carried the ring of truth , and Folly felt a flush of shame at what she had been imagining . |
| 15 | And er I got involved on national registration and er , on one occasion , we were working , we 'd got a deadline and we were working through the weekend , and my wife came to pick me up at what she thought was a reasonable time , at one o'clock on Saturday , found she was given a cup of tea and set to work , and we finished , going home about midnight . . |
| 16 | A minute or so earlier she might have burst out laughing again at what she considered was an ‘ over the top ’ compliment but — and she owned that seeing Ven Gajdusek was to blame — she suddenly felt in a laughing mood no longer . |