Example sentences of "what [vb past] be the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What happened was the first recurrence of an experience she had not had since she was a child . |
| 2 | He was saying what happened was the last three years there 's been no plums about so the supermarkets have sort of found something else . |
| 3 | It proved a fitting finale to what had been the first period of sustained fighting in the war . |
| 4 | They were said to face summary execution if found guilty of complicity in what had been the fifth rumoured coup attempt since the military took power in June 1989 . |
| 5 | I did n't know what had been the last meal eaten before leaving South America but it took me twenty minutes to coathanger my way through it , and consequently I had missed breakfast . |