Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [verb] [was/were] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What DID matter was that Kylie , little sweet innocent Charlene was TOPLESS . |
| 2 | What did happen was that the nursery staff felt themselves to be part of a wider childcare system and took advantage of formal and informal links . |
| 3 | Essentially , what had to happen was that a group of adolescent males without females had to obtain some , without allowing their group to dissolve in internecine strife over who would become the owner of the newly acquired females . |
| 4 | Being quite intuitive , I did notice there was a funny tension between Ken Pitt and David and I thought that probably what had happened was that David had not been satisfied performing ‘ When I Live My Dream ’ with the old backing tracks , as he had been working with Tony Visconti and had all these new tunes and productions and ways of doing things in his head . |
| 5 | What had happened was that O had been at home , not sleeping , thinking about Boy at six in the morning , and he had called up and said , ‘ Are you watching TV , ’ to which Boy had replied , as the man had heard , ‘ Yes , ’ and then O had told Boy to turn over to the boxing ; he 'd just said , ‘ Get up and change to the third channel . |
| 6 | What had happened was that Stirling 's static line had snagged on the tail section as he exited from the door , and two panels were ripped from the parachute , causing him to descend too rapidly . |
| 7 | What had happened was that Mark James , playing with Nicklaus , had missed the green , shanked his chip right across the green , and then taken a train ride to get the putt for a four . |
| 8 | What had happened was that the passage of electrical current created huge magnetic forces which constricted the tube . |
| 9 | What had happened was that the wall had been built much later and from a higher ground level . |
| 10 | What had happened was that Birkenhead , Austen Chamberlain , Worthington Evans , Derby and Joynson Hicks had , together or separately ( and , according to Bridgeman , backed by Beaverbrook and Rothermere ) succeeded in persuading Balfour that Baldwin intended to resign ; that he should , if asked by the King , advise him to choose not MacDonald nor Asquith , but another Conservative- Derby or Austen Chamberlain , because he held Baldwin personally to blame rather than his party ; further , they had so worked on Stamfordham , that if Baldwin had gone to resign at once , the advice tendered to the King by his private secretary would have been the same . |