Example sentences of "what it was [prep] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yeah , yeah , what it , what it was on them ones |
| 2 | I think a lot of people get carried away with the occasion and it 's actually supposed to be a very romantic day , and , you know , that 's what it was for me . |
| 3 | It slipped smoothly through the blackness , a faint throbbing heartbeat announcing its coming to a couple of village dogs , who strained in vain to make out what it was with their inadequate monochrome vision . |
| 4 | For what it was worth I asked her if she knew of a Ewen Mackay who might once have lived at Otters ' Bay , but she shook her head |
| 5 | She did n't really know what it was about him which made her go pale whenever they met and kept her awake at night longing . |
| 6 | Lucy Lane wondered , not for the first time , what it was about him that encouraged people to talk ; sometimes it was almost as though he was n't there . |
| 7 | ‘ The consciousness secretly indwelling in matter , the occult inhabitant , is able to make its way upward from the lower to the higher gradations , taking up what it was into what it is and preparing to take up both into what it will be . |
| 8 | He had moreover made himself disagreeable to many contemporary naturalists , and his posthumous reputation has been well below what it was in his earlier life , when he was seen as the British Cuvier . |