Example sentences of "what they [was/were] [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know sometimes erm people when they got their benefit , would try and do shopping for two weeks , but even that was unrealistic of how long they were , what they were buying was going to last for two weeks . |
| 2 | Alyssia blew some of the flyaway blonde strands away from her face and followed them to a small table at the back of the café , hoping that she would not have to endure half an hour of French conversation while she sat on the sidelines , wondering whether what they were discussing was really as animated and interesting as it appeared . |
| 3 | Caught up in the performance , few people seemed to wonder whether what they were hearing was an accurate account of the affair . |
| 4 | And if what they were hearing was really true , then this was indeed more important than most of those East Coast press conferences . |
| 5 | Much will depend on how it seeks to solve the long-running debate about merging income tax and the national insurance system ; whether benefits , including pensions , are to be universal or selective ; and , if selective , how the state is to deal with obligations to people who have been contributing for many years to what they were told was national insurance . |
| 6 | What they were told was that erm a number of , a a short , short list would be made up , erm , with the possibility of them having a second interview , and they would be told one way or another whether or not they were getting a second interview , because we were n't in a position to say whether we were or were not appointing . |
| 7 | , What they were asking was impossible , but he would try . |
| 8 | What they were requesting was the co-operation of the Chilean Navy Yard in installing steel bits strong enough to ensure that the hawser did not again tear itself free . |
| 9 | Liberals were left to pretend that what they were saying was the fruit not of compromise but of virtue . |
| 10 | Some of its members , namely Barry , Brodrick , Ashpitel , Jones and Lamb , must have been motivated by pure self-interest , as they themselves produce buildings in what they were saying was the hated Gothic style . |
| 11 | Someone who 's had the courage who knowing that what they were saying was upsetting powerful people , still taking that risk and saying what they felt to be true and just ? |
| 12 | They were both behaving as if what they were saying was what was in their thoughts . |
| 13 | In other words , the managers at the LBO could have achieved similar results without a buy-out ; what they were doing was seizing the gain for themselves . |
| 14 | They each believed that what they were doing was vital for the betterment of the world as each saw it and neither would give way to the other , or defer in any way to the other 's claimed priority in attention , preference or responsibility . |
| 15 | No-one should ever think that what they were doing was too small . |
| 16 | But Suzy said there were all kinds of awards young people could get , particularly if what they were doing was connected with conservation — I was really surprised . |
| 17 | The defendants claimed that what they were doing was in furtherance of their dispute with the provincial newspapers . |
| 18 | Because , what they were doing was their best . |
| 19 | what they were doing was taking turns , one bloke was doing three man 's jobs while the other two was a kip |
| 20 | The problem with many of the parents we interviewed of primary school children was that they did n't really know what their children were doing at school a lot of the time and , because they did n't know what they were doing , they sort of feared that it , they were n't doing anything or that what they were doing was not actual work , what they remembered as work . |