Example sentences of "be [adv] what [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | That 's exactly what happened to me , three years ago , when the largest company in the United Kingdom , British Petroleum , took me on to run a new venture . |
| 2 | Well , that 's exactly what happened to Woodrow Wilson . |
| 3 | That is exactly what happened to her last year but then Ms. Clayton is no ordinary girl . |
| 4 | That is exactly what happened to her last year but then Ms. Clayton is no ordinary girl . |
| 5 | This is exactly what happened to the London Regional Team when Divisional Managing Director , Peter Kelly , agreed to an evening of Tenpin Bowling at Streatham 's ‘ MEGABOWL ’ . |
| 6 | However , that is exactly what happened on the 7th of September this year when Christy , 65 , from Kelburne Drive , was reunited not only with his British comrades but also the Germans he bravely fought against . |
| 7 | As a matter of fact that is exactly what happened on this planet , and we ourselves are among the most recent , if not the strangest and most wonderful , of those consequences . |
| 8 | And working in close relation and discussing things that this is exactly what happened at . |
| 9 | This is exactly what happened in Belfast , and the imbalance in the data is probably a fair reflection of the contemporary demographic structure of the city . |
| 10 | This is exactly what happened in the Australian case of McRae v. Commonwealth Disposals Commission ( 1951 ) . |
| 11 | But that is just what happened to fusion research in the United States toward the end of the 1950's . |
| 12 | ‘ No , no , ’ I reply , ‘ It 's just what came to hand . ’ |
| 13 | That 's just what happened to Lincoln Turbine Service , when at the eleventh hour Energy Minister Tim Eggar had to cancel his trip to Aberdeen in order to be in London for the publication of the Trade & Industry Select Committee 's Energy Report . |
| 14 | And that 's just what happened to me . |
| 15 | The belief was that to ritually and voluntarily — and I stress the word ‘ voluntarily ’ — shed one 's own blood was to recommend oneself to and establish a link with the Creator of the Universe , and this is precisely what happened with circumcision . |
| 16 | This , as we have seen , is precisely what happened with the exile and in the Levitical legislation regarding ritual pollution . |
| 17 | Wh wh what I remember going through policy is the fact that we wanted to employ us Environment Officer with some clerical support , and I think that that 's actually what went to policy . |
| 18 | Er , it 's certainly what happened to me I must admit in fact it 's certainly been the pattern of my life and er I 'm not surprised what thought , Freud thought was a kind of typical er typical pattern . |
| 19 | The irony of this statement would not have been lost on any Ghanaian journalist working in the period under Nkrumah from 1957 to 1966 , for this was exactly what happened to Ghana 's newspapers : they became sycophantic , uncritical mouthpieces for the president and his view of that country , Africa and the world . |
| 20 | The death of Ecgberht and the emergence of a new king , Ealhmund , subsequently identified by a later Canterbury scribe ( ASC F , s.a. 784 ) as the father of Ecgberht ( ASC A , Preface ; s.a. 855 ) ; ( see Appendix , Fig. 3 ) , king of the West Saxons ( 802–39 ) , was probably what led to this renewed involvement , for nothing more is heard of Ealhmund nor did any successor to him appear in Kent , even as subregulus . |
| 21 | There was also what looked like a very perceptive account of how I decide , when I get up in the morning , whether to wear my new shoes or my old ones . |