Example sentences of "[verb] what was " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's another thing you see that that that today you had a a tin ladle and it ever the ladle sort of leaked or developed a hole in ti you did n't discard it and throw it away , you used to go and buy what was called a , which was two little tin washers with a little bit of , I ca n't remember if it was f a fabric or or rubber , two pieces and you put one on one side and one the other and then a little screw and bolt went through , nut and bolt went through it and tightened it up and that stopped your leak , and that ladle then lasted a lot more a lot longer time . |
| 2 | This curious animal has what was probably a gut and a set of tubules arising from it ; below this are curious pointed structures . |
| 3 | Champagne 's prayers had been answered , the only problem was how to legally recognise what was , technically , an illegally oversized crop . |
| 4 | How did one recognise what was extraordinary ? |
| 5 | I was suffering from diphtheria , most of the adult staff were women , and nobody was explaining what was happening to me . |
| 6 | He incurred the wrath of many members of the medical profession when as long ago as 1949 he suggested that patients should be given pamphlets explaining what was wrong with them and what treatment they would be receiving . |
| 7 | An investment analyst was explaining what was needed to turn the economy around . |
| 8 | Question one asked respondents to indicate what was important to them when they received accountancy services , using a seven point scale which ranged form unimportant to essential . |
| 9 | Scottish striker Gary McVie 's feeble header in the opening minute seemed to indicate what was to come . |
| 10 | I poured 70 per cent of it into a glass representing the wages paid to those of us who work in the business , 20 per cent into a glass representing what was ploughed back by way of reinvestment in plant and machinery , 5 per cent into a glass representing dividends and 5 per cent into a glass representing tax . |
| 11 | It was the undertaker , to give him his common nomenclature , who provided what was considered ‘ correct ’ in a given situation , and he alone decided on the trappings . |
| 12 | Pointing to the easy pickings and careless pleasures of newspaper sellers , flower sellers , barrel-organ boys and other youthful street traders , a government report of 1910 provided what was perhaps the most extravagant version of these common Edwardian fears : |
| 13 | Several months into my secondary education , this working provided what was for me the greatest locospotting thrill of the decade . |
| 14 | This provided what was perceived as a very secure milieu : as Chaplin ( 1978 , p. 82 ) describes it : ‘ You were known , you were named , you had your place , you could make your mark in life ’ . |
| 15 | Such an exhortation was meant to encourage adolescents to accept what was in effect an ideological belief , namely , that ‘ any service for which payment is accepted , however humble it may be , is to be regarded as a service to the community and to be conscientiously performed . ’ |
| 16 | But first he analysed what was wrong with the established shops . |
| 17 | One , Levers Water Level , was put in to try what was probably the South Vein , with a branch taken off to try other lodes . |
| 18 | The priority for the O'Neill government was development in the area east of the Bann ; the proposed new town of Craigavon underlined what was seen in Derry as neglect of the north-west . |
| 19 | She gave him a hunted look and began to burrow in its depths to extract what was obviously going to be his present . |
| 20 | In confirming the wealth of the district the subsidy exposed a scale of poverty that more closely approached what was to be found in the rest of Suffolk . |
| 21 | In November 1 172 he had met his father-in-law on the Norman border and it was believed that Louis VII had urged him to demand what was rightfully his . |
| 22 | ‘ You wanted to know what was in Angela 's will — the one we 're going to prove , that is . |
| 23 | Because of the professional 's specialized area of knowledge , the layman was unlikely to know what was best for himself . |
| 24 | Late one night , the concierge knocked on the door of Beatrice 's apartment , alarmed at the commotion , and demanded to know what was going on . |
| 25 | He 'd been hearing things , Denis had said , and he wanted to know what was going on at Rafferty 's . |
| 26 | It would enable staff to know what was expected of them , to have professional support and encouragement and opportunities provided for future improvement . |
| 27 | But in these cases it is necessary to know what was really going on at the time . |
| 28 | It was good to have adults about as we were to find out , also it was nice to know what was going on in SW1 apart from evening classes . |
| 29 | In the Epilogue to his great biography of Adolf Hitler , Alan Bullock comments : ‘ The Germans , however , were not the only people who preferred in the 1930s not to know what was happening ad refused to call evil things by their true names . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ There must have been a reason for it , like not wanting anyone to know what was being carried aboard Titron . ’ |