Example sentences of "[Wh det] it was he " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't know what they had been doing to him , but whatever it was he did n't like it , and he was going to let them know it in the only way he knew — by making as loud a noise as he could ! |
| 2 | Did he tell Paul Shacklebury whatever it was he knew ? |
| 3 | " No , I do n't think we should pay too much attention to Regiomontanus or Johann Müller , or whatever it was he called himself , " laughed the priest , " even if he did manage to forecast a comet or two . " |
| 4 | It came back , like a pain , temporarily dulled by drugs , in the terrible early hours in Emily 's bed where he lay , awake and fretful , scourged by his conscience or his sense of preservation , or whatever it was he had so recklessly ignored , tensed for another screaming fit and wondering how he would explain to Brenda that it was n't his fault . |
| 5 | She let him scan her face for whatever it was he sought there and said , ‘ Yes , but beautiful evenings at home , you know . |
| 6 | ‘ But we have to do everything we can to find whatever it was he gave to Tristram before October the eleventh . ’ |
| 7 | Tidy up something which he 'd overlooked ; wipe the mallet clean ; clear up the evidence of whatever it was he was doing here last night ; replace the keys on the body ? |
| 8 | Overriding these fears , however , was her maternal instinct to indulge Bernard with whatever it was he wanted and she urged him to buy a boat . |
| 9 | He seemed almost overcome by her arrival , as if she 'd breezed through his mind and driven out whatever it was he 'd been planning to say . |
| 10 | Yet he seemed to be able to switch off whatever it was he experienced . |
| 11 | And so he went the north end and got whatever it was he was wanting and on the way back he stopped at farm to watch . |
| 12 | Had he done whatever it was he had to do ? |
| 13 | And she had n't got whatever it was he wanted , so it had all been in vain . |
| 14 | Whatever it was he would accept it . |
| 15 | The offence was grievous and innocent , I drove the wrong way round a roundabout , which sounds appalling but there was not a single other car in sight to , in a sense to steer by so to speak , erm but there was one policeman , and he stopped me , and he fined me , and I had to search for my purse , which I had well hidden , this being Italy , erm underneath all the bedding and the tents and the cooking pots , found it in due course , presented him very shakily with these thousand lire or whatever it was he wanted , and , and this is really the point , drove off very shakily too . |
| 16 | She was a scold — whenever she was near him he felt in the wrong and wondered anxiously what it was he ought to have done . |
| 17 | He started to explain what it was he wanted , with sentries shouting along the corridors outside , but was cut short . |
| 18 | He looked at me as if he was now wondering quite what it was he had invited into his home . |
| 19 | There was something definitely wrong , but what it was he had no idea . |
| 20 | Though he did not know it , and never would , he was looking at the blazing jet-pipe of Colonel Bowers ' F-15 Eagle as both men raced on different missions towards the British capital , neither man knowing what it was he carried . |
| 21 | Something was being gained by the roughness of his work ; what it was he could n't explain . |
| 22 | Crouching a little , he risked turning his head to see what it was he 'd hit . |
| 23 | Then he let go of my sleeve as if he 'd confessed what it was he had to confess . |
| 24 | ‘ Oh , shut up , Bob , ’ said Dyson , peering into the engine and trying to see what it was he had touched . |
| 25 | He 'd had an addled idea that he wanted to stand there all night , so that first thing in the morning he could approach the kids and explain to them what it was he was after . |
| 26 | Edwina Currie had rejected his advances ( ‘ What sort of girl do you think I am ? ’ ) while Emma Nicholson had not caught exactly what it was he had proposed . |
| 27 | But quite often Quigley will keep his audience in such a state of suspense that he forgets what it was he intended to say . |
| 28 | No doubt she was wondering what it was he expected to find . |
| 29 | When he looked at you it was like he knew something he was n't telling , or was laughing at you , no matter what it was he said . |
| 30 | I still did n't know what it was he was trying to tell me |