Example sentences of "[prep] [noun] that [pron] [verb] [Wh det] " in BNC.

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1 But quite often Quigley will keep his audience in such a state of suspense that he forgets what it was he intended to say .
2 It was not until the middle of May that I discovered what it was that had so stimulated my friend .
3 With this business of embargo , Liz , I 'll agree with that but the , the off the record , one wants to get the local people very well and you do develop this , this trust , and if you can in fact give them a lot of scope that you know what to use .
4 Similarly , it is as a participant in the Hindu way of life that he understands what it means to talk of Religion ; he understands the meaning of the term Religion from its use in his own form of life .
5 People who are in one particular workplace and that workplace makes up the branch , then it 's clear from the sort of jobs that they do which section they should be in .
6 It was in Lucerne that you conducted what were by all accounts electrifying performances of the Honegger Symphonie liturgique , which you later recorded for Deutsche Grammophon .
7 So if you work on the presumption then that that position is the preferable one , bearing in mind that you know what you 're doing but you do n't know what other people are doing .
8 Stone produces initial sketches as ‘ discussion documents , carefully screened in order that they see what I want them to see ’ .
9 With things like art nouveau and Edwardian furniture , when David started buying them , I went and got books to get my act together in order that I knew what he was into , but with drugs , I did n't know , added to which David was very secretive and for a long time I was n't aware that he was having a problem , not necessarily from cocaine addiction , which everybody loves to tell you is not addictive , but it is in terms of the fact that you rely on feeling up to cope — you just become more and more paranoid .
10 The applicant had been granted access to accounts on condition that he paid what was considered to be excessive amounts for rent of room , photocopying , and a union official 's salary .
11 You do as you are told and hope to God that someone knows what they are doing .
12 And it was n't until we started analysing for zinc that we realized what the problem was .
13 It was down at Riverside that I had what you might call my first ‘ exotic ’ sexual experience .
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