Example sentences of "[vb infin] [was/were] " in BNC.
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| 31 | What she could not know was that by refusing to deal with the Protestant threat until the crown matrimonial had been obtained , she would throw away the strongest card in her anti-Protestant hand before having a chance to play it . |
| 32 | ( Halikarnas , as all classical scholars will know was the ancient name for Bodrum ) . |
| 33 | What they did not know was that their legendary luck was about to run out . |
| 34 | What I did not know was that English soccer was televised in Algeria . |
| 35 | What she did know was that she never wanted to go away again . |
| 36 | What they did not know was that in ten years time , that beautiful picture was to be blighted by Britain 's first commercial nuclear power station . |
| 37 | What startled spectator did not know was that a chiropractor on the Olympic Staff had given him a spinal adjustment immediately after the accident . |
| 38 | What I did know was that Shadwell was involved . |
| 39 | What they did not know was that the examination of the diamonds had finished before midnight to the complete satisfaction of Zack and his accomplices . |
| 40 | What he did n't know was that the local authorities were taking a very different line . |
| 41 | ‘ What he did n't know was there was a 13ft drop on the other side . |
| 42 | What I did know was that I did n't want to grow up , and my diary records that I confessed as much — when pressed to my housemistress . |
| 43 | What she did know was that he lived with his mother and two brothers , and that after the war he would go back to work in an insurance office . |
| 44 | What Arrhenius did not know was that there is a large amount of X-radiation washing about in space , and to this his hypothetical spores would certainly have been vulnerable . |
| 45 | You may find a stream , a cave , a factory , a prison you did not know was there but which insists upon itself as a landmark . |
| 46 | What I did n't know was that a few months before we started to work together she had written a proposal to the Thai government to start a ‘ machine knitting project ’ in one of her districts . |
| 47 | But what I did n't know was he was a member of the local mafia and did n't want to see his chance of making a fortune disappear into thin air . |
| 48 | In fact , barn owls are reckoned to be one of the hardest breeds to hand-rear and train , and they are n't recommended for beginners — though I did n't know that then , What I did know was that I 'd probably lost the battle with this owl before I 'd started : I suspected he would be impossible to train , but I was so hooked on the idea of having my own bird that I could hardly drag myself away when I was looking at him . |
| 49 | But what the rest of the candidates did not know was that Pilger had already earmarked someone for the job — the man who had gatecrashed the capitalization-day party — Keith Sutton of the Wapping Post . |
| 50 | A talent , It is said , hits a target : a genius hits something you did not even know was there . |
| 51 | Empson 's criticism never looked merely talented , and it hit something you did not know was there . |
| 52 | What the ‘ teacher ’ volunteer did not know was that the whole experiment was a set-up and that the ‘ learner ’ was in fact a co-worker of Milgram 's . |
| 53 | What he did n't know was that the secret military satellite launched on the Columbia space shuttle in the summer of 1989 also had the capability of following the Citation . |
| 54 | What he did n't know was that the captives had already been moved over two thousand miles to the east . |
| 55 | What he did n't know was that Myeloski wanted to share his knowledge with the Englishman . |
| 56 | What he did know was that Joe liked to be surrounded by young men . |
| 57 | What she did not know was that Freddie had two children by his other woman . |
| 58 | The one man who did know was the Prince of Wales . |
| 59 | ‘ Finding something you did n't know was there , when you take off overpaint , that 's the best . |
| 60 | You discover what you did n't know was there . |