Example sentences of "it [was/were] what " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway er it were what you write down , you 're supposed to write who you 've been talking to , tt what the occupation is er you , how old they are , female , male regional accent and that 's , if you were born in London that 's your accent you 're using int it ? |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It was a love letter , it was what she wanted and would she have the nerve to deliver it ? |
| 5 | Because when Jay had first kissed a woman , she knew she had come home , it was what she was born for . |
| 6 | It was what was said that was important . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | It was what Morley 's reportage implied that aroused such ire , especially the bit about bad choices , and crack perhaps not being the worst of them . |
| 10 | It was what one did with wealth that counted , and in the last 10 years voluntary giving had doubled . |
| 11 | It was what you called a ‘ wet break ’ and you were n't allowed to go outside . |
| 12 | It was what they called parrots . |
| 13 | It was what Nigel wanted in theory , but in practice he could n't bear the whole thing ending acrimoniously , especially with her getting the last word . |
| 14 | It was what got Joe Lampton to the top . |
| 15 | There was a faint murmur of satisfaction , though only a murmur , for it was what they had all expected . |
| 16 | He was aware of the risks involved and that he was embarking on a kind of unnecessary surgery that could threaten his life , but it was what he wanted . |
| 17 | It was what she was . |
| 18 | It was what came before , during and after each day 's ride that was rigorous . |
| 19 | On the subconscious level it was what they desired to heal their own castration , their own sense of lack . ’ |
| 20 | There were three soldiers going house-to-house with fifteen photographers and a couple of TV crews ; it was what we call a ‘ dog and pony show ’ . |
| 21 | It was what happened next that had made such an indelible impression upon Mr Charles . |
| 22 | I understood that it was what The Wedding Present wanted , but explaining it to the head of the sales force was a problem . |
| 23 | To them it was what it seemed to be , a pleasant green meadow . |
| 24 | To that she would reply simply that it was what ‘ I ought to do . ’ |
| 25 | It was what ‘ good ’ children do . |
| 26 | It was what the doctors call a false pregnancy , probably brought on by her husband 's sudden death , feelings of guilt . |
| 27 | It was what you might call a duty fuck . |
| 28 | Everyone knew it was what boys wanted . |
| 29 | It was what he had hoped . |
| 30 | It was what that girl had said . |