Example sentences of "what [pers pn] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ What I got is an inarck … an inar … culate … |
| 2 | What I got was a group of men who ranged from those with a more developed line on women 's issues than mine to those who were frankly misogynistic , and a woman who went on record as saying that , in her opinion , feminism put women off being lesbians . |
| 3 | ‘ We wo n't ! ’ called Quigley , with what I feared was misplaced optimism . |
| 4 | what I lacked was a foreign accent , almond eyes , straight or springy black hair , a black skin , a muscular physique , a mind full of difficult alphabets , a sense of rhythm , a pitiful history of slavery and oppression , and a massive member — though not necessarily in that order . |
| 5 | I 'd been dreaming , that 's what I 'd been doing . |
| 6 | During that week I felt the Lord speak to me and I knew that this is what I 'd been looking for all my life and I decided to follow Jesus . |
| 7 | ‘ That 's just what I 'd been thinking ! ’ answered Gabriel in surprise . |
| 8 | The actual experience was n't frightening me so much as what I 'd been told . |
| 9 | Cos I 'd lost about half a stone in weight , and I was cut down on chocolate biscuits , and I , what I 'd been doing I was was at my tea , at five o'clock , I was eating another at ten o'clock , I reckon I was overdoing it a bit you know with the I was trying to cut down a lot |
| 10 | so it was totally different work from what I 'd been used to . |
| 11 | I feel that it was actually so quick — not at all what I 'd been led to expect from antenatal classes — that I could n't savour the birth or get used to the idea . |
| 12 | I do n't know what I 'd been expecting . |
| 13 | ‘ No , you came here wanting to know what I 'd been saying to Mr Kronweiser today . ’ |
| 14 | I did n't care if it was raw , if the pangs of birth were ugly ; I wanted to be somewhere I would n't be defined by what I 'd been , where I could fashion a new notion of myself and impose it on others as the truth . |
| 15 | ‘ Knowing what I 'd been through ? |
| 16 | Oh , that 's what I 'd been thinking , fifty percent of what they want . |
| 17 | But this is so different to what I 'd been doing as it is for most people . |
| 18 | What I desired was a grand conception , one which would speak to the mysterious fears of our nature . |
| 19 | What I met was Cleese in full flow , with nothing to sell — no film gale force imminent , no series , no book , nothing but a mind primed after a sabbatical which had been deliberately aimed at reflection . |
| 20 | I started by saying to Harold that I had been told about his Honours List — I did not tell him by whom — and I hoped that what I heard was mistaken . |
| 21 | ‘ You mean , what I heard was the tapes ? ’ |
| 22 | I want to repeat that the line was faint but it was definately Dr Kemp on the phone and that what I wrote was as near as anyone could get to what he said . |
| 23 | What I figured was that EC ai n't playing like EC used to play any more , so I played exactly as if it was a garage band from Seattle ! |
| 24 | While I was then involved with technical assistance to LDCs , I was responding to what I believed was a window of opportunity for our Institute . |
| 25 | From then on idle chit-chat returned and I made no attempt to direct things back to what I believed were more important matters . |
| 26 | ‘ What I thought is , I 'd like to meet you and we could have a chat and so on , ’ she intoned nervously . |
| 27 | About 8 p.m. that evening Taff and I sat at the side of our slit trench eating what I thought was a rather dubious lump of meat . |
| 28 | I got there at what I thought was a reasonable hour , around midday . |
| 29 | ‘ I always tried to do the best or what I thought was best . |
| 30 | I began walking towards what I thought was the town . |