Example sentences of "[pron] was what " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also had a company pension but I was what , in the pensions trade , is called an ‘ early leaver ’ . |
| 2 | But I ruined my own life — and more importantly I ruined Ashi 's too — because I refused to admit that I was what I was . ’ |
| 3 | I was what I wanted to be : a girl . |
| 4 | I was what I felt unconsciously I had never had a chance to be : a little girl . |
| 5 | They keep questioning me , always asking where I was what I did why I did it , did all of them where I was who I was with who am I trying to kid why do n't I just admit I did it well if I did n't do all these things , who did ? |
| 6 | I was What times daddy coming home ? |
| 7 | why , I was what they call it ? |
| 8 | I mean I was what I 've mentioned it like to someone in my class . |
| 9 | And to be his was what she wanted — which made it such a nonsense that when , as he caressed his hands over her naked behind and then pulled her to him , that as her body came into contact with the pure maleness of him , she experienced a moment of totally unexpected panic . |
| 10 | Boris showered the woman with presents , eventually including the house which was what she ( and her husband ) really wanted . |
| 11 | All I needed was 10 pence — which was what you had to pay in those days if you said you came from the previous stop — but I did n't even have that . |
| 12 | He glanced involuntarily at Jennifer Morgan who said she would make tea , which was what her mother preferred , and bore her off to the kitchen . |
| 13 | Joe invited us out to lunch , which was what I had been hoping for , because we were both more or less on our uppers . |
| 14 | ‘ He still made tremendous efforts , but he could never get up the courage to criticise what I was doing , which was what I longed for , ’ says Richard . |
| 15 | Which was what adults told children , he thought : You 're too young to understand . |
| 16 | ‘ Which was what ? ’ |
| 17 | The Volkswagen Passat was about as glamorous as a visit to the supermarket , which was what it was principally used for . |
| 18 | By contrast Mrs Cowan , s son-in-law said that it was no trouble to him to visit his mother-in-law every day and help take care of her , but that he would ideally prefer her to be in residential care because there she would have constant care and companionship , which was what she really needed . |
| 19 | He might just have been another guitar player who ended up playing back-up for a lot of people , which was what he was doing in America . ’ |
| 20 | It was n't an ideal situation , but it was educational provision of a sort , and local people thought that was better than nothing at all which was what the girl was being offered at the time by the authorities . |
| 21 | But it was her identity , she said , it was all she had , and she went on putting a caste mark which she had no right to on her forehead and wearing all her gold bracelets and cooking sag ghosht and dal instead of the defrosted hamburgers and chips which was what most people ate around there . |
| 22 | THE predicted overspend on the new British Library would have paid for a £1 million public library for every UK local authority , leaving over £100 million for an extension to the British Museum Reading Room with a new underground storage area — which was what everyone wanted in the first place . |
| 23 | Back then it was called ‘ nancy boys ’ which was what my father used to call homosexuals , and he thought that all actors were homosexuals , so I could n't tell him that everyone in the company that I first joined was homosexual — except me . |
| 24 | The bit of marshy ground beyond the playing fields was vole country , which was what attracted the kestrels . |
| 25 | But as time went on they began returning to the box , which was what we wanted them to do . |
| 26 | It should perhaps be added that Stewart was not attempting to enter the service at a higher than normal rank , for fusilier regiments did not employ the rank of ensign , the equivalent rank being that of second lieutenant , which was what was sought . |
| 27 | The Television Act intended competition between ITV companies , not just between ITV and the BBC — which was what effectively developed . |
| 28 | Alice took off the cotton dress which was what young mothers wore in Chelmsford to shop in , put on jeans and a black T-shirt , the kind of clothes she would always wear now , through an indefinitely stretching future . |
| 29 | I now wanted desperately to belong to the Christian church in general ( which to me , from my Free Church background , was what baptism implied ) while not able to belong specifically to the Anglican Church ( which was what confirmation implied ) so long as that church discriminated against women . |
| 30 | Questions of human dignity and equality are however not matters which one should have to argue ( which was what I was forced to do when I was in the church ) . |