Example sentences of "[was/were] what i [vb mod] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first was what I might call her physical candour . |
| 2 | Castration was what I would have recommended back in England , where there is less space for dogs to wander and where welfare considerations for a dog out on his own are obviously of prime concern . |
| 3 | In fact they do just about everything short of brushing their teeth , but this was what I would call a really good laugh , if you know what I mean . |
| 4 | Jean Jacques Rousseau , famous French philosopher , whose view of human nature , was what I would call optimistic , in the sense that , by contrast to Thomas Hobbes , John Rousseau believed that human beings were basically good . |
| 5 | But Laura was what I could only think . |