Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] what was " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's inconceivable that Andrew did n't eventually know what was going on . |
| 2 | ‘ They said there was nothing wrong with her , but they were concerned about marks on her hips and would keep her in to see what was the cause , ’ he said . |
| 3 | The pupils standing outside burst in to see what was happening and crowded around the empty cage . |
| 4 | Hearing noises in the little white salon as she passed its door , she poked her head in to see what was going on . |
| 5 | And so condoned what was going on . |
| 6 | Endill suddenly realised what was about to happen . |
| 7 | Endill was about to declare his joy when he suddenly realised what was about to happen . |
| 8 | We put down er obviously a local gendarmerie came along to see what was actually happening and actually bent over backwards to help us . |
| 9 | I saw the drivers holding a conference in a bus in the lower reaches of the car park and decided to mosey down to see what was going on . |
| 10 | I looked down to see what was kind of stinging my finger and the ring had snapped and was pinching where it caught my finger . |
| 11 | Could you be fighting basically to see what was what . |
| 12 | I nodded , suddenly realising what was coming . |
| 13 | As they fall , as in the example given , they merely replace what was lost in an earlier time period . |
| 14 | Sweeting also confirmed that the Miss Johnson story originated from his aunt who , as he wittily put it , ‘ could only know what was told her ! ’ |
| 15 | He would n't necessarily know what was actually in all the crates . |
| 16 | One , Levers Water Level , was put in to try what was probably the South Vein , with a branch taken off to try other lodes . |
| 17 | Malpass had told me a few more bits of the story ; not enough to know what was really going on but just enough to make me feel uncomfortable . |
| 18 | Mr Wopsle went in to discover what was happening , and after a few minutes rushed out , calling , ‘ Something wrong up at the forge , Pip ! |
| 19 | She had only done what was expected of her . |
| 20 | There was a screen of well-tended trees between tower and road , not sufficiently thick to conceal the building entirely , but enough to render what was already an undistinguished building virtually invisible . |
| 21 | A better approach merely underlines what was said above , that the regress shows that if all justification is inferential , no belief is ever more than conditionally justified . |
| 22 | The sound of high-pitched wailing from the woods indicated that the village women were being held there , out of sight but close enough to hear what was going on . |
| 23 | Remarkable as these observations are , they are currently only confirming what was known already about localization within the brain . |
| 24 | I 'm not entirely clear what was said , but erm , they were certainly given no commitment to an an interview |
| 25 | And so began what was , to me , a most moving ceremony . |
| 26 | He obviously anticipated what was coming next . |
| 27 | If the policy regime changes then so will what was thought to be the constant structure . |
| 28 | All mandatory cockpit voice recording systems operate on a continuous loop with a duration of thirty minutes , so the investigator can only hear what was said during the last thirty minutes of flight . |
| 29 | Jimmy was only saying what was right , only all that work just disappeared . |
| 30 | It was true after all , Tommaso was only saying what was obvious to everyone . |