Example sentences of "[vb past] [Wh det] [pron] be [that] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not until the middle of May that I discovered what it was that had so stimulated my friend . |
| 2 | And then he knew what it was that had tapped him on the shoulder . |
| 3 | For Friend I would — if I only knew what it was that he wants me to do or be . |
| 4 | He knew what it was that had struck him as odd about Michael Banks 's death . |
| 5 | Harry looked at him then and thought he saw what it was that glimmered beneath the affable surface of his remarks . |
| 6 | In other words , rats with hippocampal lesions have difficulty in refraining from punished responses because they can not remember what happened to them the last time that they did whatever it was that led to the punishment . |
| 7 | Dandelion looked at Pipkin and realized what it was that Hazel was asking him to do . |
| 8 | She stood there , staring , immobile at first , before the riot of flesh and lights and people and advertisements , and she wondered what it was that she was supposed to fear , because she could not truly fear anything , in such well-lit company : and she wondered why she was not afraid , when they had all told her , all of them , the Party Organizer and Janice and her upbringing , that she ought to fear . |
| 9 | Once again she wondered what it was that he had done in the war to make Anthony so angry . |
| 10 | He often wondered what it was that had brought about such a change in their relationship . |