Example sentences of "be [Wh det] [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was aware of the fact that there had been what seemed like 20 people working in the office and then it was suddenly dwindling down to a skeleton staff . |
| 2 | In contrast , bidders competed for uncleaned and fresher works such as Lord Leighton 's ‘ The Antique Juggling Girl ’ at Sotheby 's bought by a telephone bidder at £400,000 ( $600,000 ) ( estimate £400–600,000 ) , and Valentine Cameron Prinsep 's evocative ‘ Home from Gleaning , ’ also at Sotheby 's which sold to another telephone bidder for £50,000 ( $75,000 ; also healthily estimated at £50–70,000 ) . |
| 3 | They do n't like to do it what even in under those , I mean the other tooth 's nearly the same size , this is what happened with that tooth of mine there , I was |
| 4 | That is what happened in late March to Vrej Baghoomian , whose gallery , a virtual airplane hangar in SoHo , had been most closely associated with the work of Jean-Michel Basquiat . |
| 5 | This , indeed , is what happened in due course , but the old village was far from disintegrated by such new building unless it was already very small and decaying . |
| 6 | Chaverim kol Yisroel — ‘ All Israel are brothers ’ — was what went through many minds . |
| 7 | History was what happened to dead people . |
| 8 | Maybe this was what happened to most people . |