Example sentences of "[pers pn] 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 | ‘ She was what men had made her . |
| 11 | She was what she called a conviction politician . |
| 12 | On the face of it , she was what she seemed : a lonely , nervous girl , travelling Europe alone , and , he conceded reluctantly , of very doubtful chastity . |
| 13 | She was what was known as ‘ a bad lot ’ and several times later I saw her standing in alleyways , always with a different man . |
| 14 | She was what her father jokingly called ‘ a good eyeful ’ , with her large breasts and wide hips . |
| 15 | But Clelia , she could see , was secure beyond approval or disapproval : she was what she was , whatever that might be . |
| 16 | The reality of anorexia for you was what , just not eating at all ? |
| 17 | You was what ? |
| 18 | Well I must admit you was what ? |
| 19 | Ahead of him was what those who worked there called the Citadel . |
| 20 | It was probable , I thought , that what I disliked in him was what Nour had disliked in me , and that the whole world was mad . |
| 21 | What he found in her was what he wanted to find : a sickly , faded woman as beautiful in his eyes as a Madonna . |
| 22 | She wondered if that warm glow inside her was what people called happiness . |
| 23 | Another thing that drew her was what was called the ‘ power house ’ . |
| 24 | I have far fewer friends and I am partially sighted , which makes me a lot more vulnerable ; but whatever happens physically , I have always said that it was what happened mentally that mattered . |
| 25 | I have far few friends and I am partially sighted , which makes me a lot more vulnerable ; but whatever happens physically , I have always said that it was what happened mentally that mattered . |
| 26 | It was a love letter , it was what she wanted and would she have the nerve to deliver it ? |
| 27 | Because when Jay had first kissed a woman , she knew she had come home , it was what she was born for . |
| 28 | It was what was said that was important . |
| 29 | Pound saw him doing it , and chuckled indulgently ; it was what he meant by dubbing Eliot ‘ the Possum ’ ( opossum , the creature that escapes danger by shamming dead ) . |
| 30 | It was what Pound found out the hard way , when the recurrent occasions of The Cantes compelled him time and again , not infrequently , to go against the precepts that he had promulgated himself when he was the fugleman for imagism and vorticism — for instance ( and it is only the most obvious instance ) , the prohibition against archaic diction . |