Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] [pers pn] [was/were] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The verdict of the clerk to the select committee of 1824 which reviewed it was that it had been a dead letter so far as " those artisans on whom it was intended to have an effect " , namely printers , tailors , shoe makers and shipbuilders in London who continued " their regular societies and houses of call as though no such act were in existence " . |
| 2 | As the weeks progressed , the only thing which troubled her was that her new friends had seen so much more of the world than she had . |
| 3 | The most serious risk which faced them was that to their involuntarily parasitic women-folk — the unexpected death of the male breadwinner . |
| 4 | What shook Burton was not that he would appear to ‘ the World ’ , i.e. the metropolitan thespians , as someone who had failed in a straight contest with another rising young actor , Scofield — although that made him angry and inflamed his competitive instincts — what shook him was that he had no real idea why it had happened . |
| 5 | What puzzled him was that the beautiful creature could never have arranged itself in that unnatural position . |
| 6 | ‘ What shocked me was that one wall could make such a difference , ’ he said . |
| 7 | ‘ WHAT worried me was that I might discover I could n't write at all . ’ |
| 8 | What worried him was that the man was somehow rejecting the film , announcing that he did n't think life was really like that . |
| 9 | And what struck me was that the costumes were all sort of like you see portraits of Elizabethan dress . |
| 10 | And what struck me was that the costumes were all sort of like you see portraits of Elizabethan dress . |
| 11 | What impressed me was that there was a perceptible interval between the explosion and the time at which Bernal ducked down into our shelter trench . |
| 12 | What infuriated her was that they charged three shillings for afternoon tea , so she decided to forgo it because she knew the men would still be out on the links . ’ |