Example sentences of "what [pron] [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Knowing what I 'd been through ? |
| 2 | Well , what I thought was with this one world week thing at least people that , who go might be more receptive to what we have to say to show and sell . |
| 3 | did n't mean that , what I meant was on this er exercise were , was it written down for instance that erm P C has Smith er Smith and Weston number thirty two ? |
| 4 | What I intended is of no interest ; what is interesting is the effect the work has on the spectator , on the public who will decide if the work is important enough to survive . |
| 5 | ‘ For what I did was on the King 's instructions . ’ |
| 6 | What she said was of interest to Edouard , but he could see that it was by way of a preamble . |
| 7 | At least , he must have known what she said was in it . |
| 8 | The body 's centre line and she equated that and what she said was in terms of the hands that people who were open and positive communicators used on average more symmetrical open palm gestures than individual or closed palm gestures non-symmetrical . |
| 9 | What she had been after was a specified date and time . |
| 10 | What she wrote is worth repeating here : |
| 11 | Her head was aching a bit too , but then that was not surprising perhaps after what she 'd been through this evening . |
| 12 | But that 's , that 's all the all what we got is in there . |
| 13 | A shadow crossed his face ; evidently , thought Karelius , what there had been between him and Louise Müller was not yet dead , and perhaps never would be . |
| 14 | Three years of horrifying anarchy and nine governments destroyed what there had been of Ukrainian nationalism . |
| 15 | What they 'd been over there to a stallion ? |
| 16 | He used to sort of let the girls know what they 'd been at . |
| 17 | Some of his male colleagues boasted about how they 'd felt with various women , raising an arm to show what they 'd been like . |
| 18 | But what they produced were at best permanent monuments of erudition on which we still draw , and at worst giant-sized pamphlets which are now read , if at all , only for their interest as literature . |
| 19 | She knew very well what they had been at ; she and Patten had been the same , when they were young . |
| 20 | This was a soft seduction of her senses , a sensuous reminder of what they had been to each other and what they had lost . |
| 21 | After that , the possibilities for the disturbed were very much what they were to remain until the introduction of the major tranquillisers — and indeed what they had been from Roman times . |
| 22 | I thought , would n't it be good though if they , if what they did is on that day we went they pick everyone who wanted like the jobs yeah |
| 23 | Knowing what he had been through just added a new dimension to what I saw . |
| 24 | She was able to let him go as he was now because she had clarified and confirmed what he had been to her . |
| 25 | ‘ Sealed envelope with Mme Wyatt , ’ he replied , laying an uncharacteristic finger against his nose as if this was what he 'd been to spy-school for . |
| 26 | He shot her a grin and she thought of what he 'd been to her in the last week and a half . |
| 27 | After that I got us on to less dangerous ground , and I gave him a few tit-bits of intelligence , which was probably what he 'd been after . |
| 28 | ‘ Did she tell you what he 'd been in prison for ? ’ |
| 29 | ‘ There is a land , ’ he whispered , so quiet that most of what he said was at first drowned by her rushings , ‘ that lies to the South , beyond a great blue sea . |
| 30 | What he wanted was to be as dirty as the miners , covered in coal-dust like them . |