Example sentences of "[verb] [Wh det] was at " in BNC.
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| 1 | With coughing , he opened his eyes and began groaning which was at least some sign of progress , and I started looking about to see how we were going to get out of what appeared to be uncomfortably like a prison . |
| 2 | Old one old ones just used which was at the bulb in every hen house and it was free range and I think there was nothing better than that . |
| 3 | It was part of the social self-definition of the patronizing household , often deliberately in terms residual from the true courts , to assume what was at once a responsibility and an honour ! |
| 4 | I believe you also fully understood what was at stake . ’ |
| 5 | The Scottish regional organiser of the Amalgamated Engineering and Electrical Union , Harry McLevy , said after yesterday 's meeting that the workers clearly understood what was at stake . |
| 6 | Mr Frohnmayer 's standing at the White House fell rapidly as he began to understand what was at stake , and came to appreciate some of the challenging yet easily misrepresented art the NEA had subsidised . |
| 7 | ‘ I suppose I really understood what was at stake when I got my first glimpse of the castle , ’ she admitted , unable to disguise a rather wry smile . |
| 8 | In November 1952 Karajan made what was at the time a celebrated recording of Bach 's B minor Mass . |