Example sentences of "[was/were] [Wh det] [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She would stay , here where things were what they seemed to be , where trees were trees , hens were hens . |
| 2 | Like Isobel , they were what they looked , quiet people doing very necessary jobs and a that moment grieving for one of their number who had left them . |
| 3 | ‘ When I was designing Metaltronix gear , I made everything bigger , for product visibility , but I would get letters telling me that the Marshall ‘ standard ’ head dimensions were what they wanted , so that 's what I based these new amp heads on . |
| 4 | Horses and wagon were what they wanted , and what they took , for all we could do to stop them . |
| 5 | Nearly all Cora-Beth 's friends were what they called ‘ dating ’ , although many were even younger than she was . |
| 6 | There were what we got delivered yesterday was all we had , apart from a few bottles |
| 7 | Before discussing the findings in detail , one is worth highlighting : of the 94 applicants , over half , 54% were what we have called migrants . |
| 8 | Many of the singers were what we call verpflichtet : they were contracted to do so many performances and they simply turned up and did them . |
| 9 | ‘ He told us to throw away the air strut front suspension — coil springs , telescopic dampers and a lowered roll centre were what we needed . |
| 10 | Set against these were what he took to be the essential strengths and cultural possibilities of the German spirit , which in recent generations — and most clearly in the age of Goethe — had been partially realized and whose full realization was an ever-present dream . |
| 11 | The ones he was proudest of were what he called aberrations ! |
| 12 | Books were what he bought most assiduously . |
| 13 | After much study Hahnemann came to the conclusion that the basic underlying causes of chronic diseases were what he termed the inherited miasms , a term which we might translate into modern parlance as inherited predispositions . |
| 14 | He said it almost with relish , as if dark sides were what he liked best . |
| 15 | Quilts were what you lay on to sunbathe that summer , not for warmth on beds , but slung for lounging comfort as it might be on some Damascus rooftop . |
| 16 | Anyway er it were what you write down , you 're supposed to write who you 've been talking to , tt what the occupation is er you , how old they are , female , male regional accent and that 's , if you were born in London that 's your accent you 're using int it ? |
| 17 | First , there were what I thought of as variations at the ‘ horizontal ’ level . |
| 18 | The questions were what she expected . |
| 19 | That were what she said to her that day and she says to you , if you carry on I 'm gon na have you put in that orphan 's home . |
| 20 | Shops were what she had missed most when she herself had been house-bound . |
| 21 | She had put them on without thinking , because they were what she had always worn for travelling outside London , but she began to wonder what David 's mother would think of them and to wish that she had put on her good black coat and skirt instead with one of her London hats . |
| 22 | ‘ Classy , ’ she muttered , thinking that , while she rebelled against his firm being involved , villas were what she had originally hoped for . |
| 23 | The words were what she had longed to hear , and she stayed silent , savouring the most wonderful moment of her life . |
| 24 | She needed someone to talk to about it all , needed a sharer of secrets , an ear to listen to her plans and , above all , someone to agree that she was on the right course , that both shopping expedition and holiday were what she stood in urgent need of . |
| 25 | Well we saw them , we were outside the chippy one night and they were going out they were whatever you call it ? |
| 26 | I mean , when I think I was with my bags and things and he went , Jo , the message has gone through , everything 's fine I went , your sister , I relayed that little message which I thought was which I thought was rather comical , you see , and I said , oh did you , and he said yeah . |
| 27 | Another funny story , also off the record is that that lay in a drawer for two years because they thought it was controversial , they thought it was which I find hilarious . |
| 28 | If I told you now that we needed another five gangs of floor tilers or whatever it was which you had n't got enough of , it wo n't be floor tilers something you have n't got enough of , everything , could you get them by Monday ? |
| 29 | We knew her and we also knew that she was taking food to a different set of prisoners ; they were beginning to scatter over an increasingly wide area as there was now no hope of an immediate Allied invasion of northern Italy , which was what everyone had hoped for . |
| 30 | THE predicted overspend on the new British Library would have paid for a £1 million public library for every UK local authority , leaving over £100 million for an extension to the British Museum Reading Room with a new underground storage area — which was what everyone wanted in the first place . |