Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] was what " in BNC.
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| 1 | Precisely what she disliked most about them was what interested him ; she knew that he wondered whether they could be persuaded to become sleeping partners in the revolution a phrase which she used and he approved with a dry smile and a nod . |
| 2 | Ahead of him was what those who worked there called the Citadel . |
| 3 | The reality of anorexia for you was what , just not eating at all ? |
| 4 | What he found in her was what he wanted to find : a sickly , faded woman as beautiful in his eyes as a Madonna . |
| 5 | It was probable , I thought , that what I disliked in him was what Nour had disliked in me , and that the whole world was mad . |
| 6 | She wondered if that warm glow inside her was what people called happiness . |
| 7 | The very fact that terms like ‘ dissenter ’ and ‘ nonconformist ’ made no sense in America shows the attraction that she held for English Nonconformists : America to them was what England might become . |
| 8 | The most absorbing topic to me was what was going on in Lebanon and , increasingly , Iran . |
| 9 | Walker said : ‘ What James Hunt was to me was what he was to any Grand Prix enthusiast the world over a chap with enormous experience and gigantic expertise . ’ |