Example sentences of "what [noun prp] had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The one thing he did n't ask , for which I was grateful , was what Salome had been doing with Alec Reynolds at midnight on a Saturday down in darkest Kent . |
| 2 | Foreigners always find that a difficult process — in fact only one of them made a real success of it — and Disraeli possessed what Ezra had been denied — the elasticity and toughness of a good Jew . |
| 3 | Melissa wondered if the police had taken this into account and what Angy had been wearing when her body was found . |
| 4 | Was this what Edward had been waiting for ? |
| 5 | It was not , at present , the eternal verities which were occupying her mind but the simple gnawing question of what Memet had been up to behind her back . |
| 6 | She wished that she could ask David what Anthony had been talking about , but she obviously could not . |
| 7 | Was that what Carol had been trying to tell him ? |
| 8 | She wished she knew what Nahum had been going to say just before he died . |
| 9 | By 1988 West Indies were going through what England had been going through for as long as anyone could remember : a period of transition . |
| 10 | Back on the road , they headed east in silence , Harry 's mind registering with calm intensity every mile and vista of their route , as if this process alone would bring him closer to what Heather had been thinking . |
| 11 | He thought about what Suragai had been saying about the origins of mankind . |
| 12 | I thought that this was a painting I should n't discuss with Lili , but only when I had walked to the end of the gallery to look at an innocuous picture of a group of long-haired sheep did I ask myself what Robert had been doing in Marie Claire 's bedroom . |
| 13 | He had n't been paying much attention to what Throgmorton had been talking about on the way here , but he recalled his ears had caught the unpleasant words ‘ casting vote ’ , and ‘ your important role as president ’ . |
| 14 | The treaty conceded most of what Bruce had been fighting for . |
| 15 | From what Wayne had been able to see of her left eye , it had looked as if it had a couple of drops of blood in it . |
| 16 | Vichy , Spa , Baden-Baden , Aix-les-Bains , but above all the great international spas of the Habsburg monarchy , Gastein , Marienbad , Karlsbad , etc. , were to nineteenth-century Europe what Bath had been to eighteenth-century England , fashionable gatherings justified by the excuse of drinking some form of disagreeable mineral waters or immersing oneself in some form of liquid under the control of a benevolent medical dictator . |
| 17 | It was exactly what Jed had been waiting to hear , but he kept his voice level . |
| 18 | Unfortunately , Fenella takes her duties terribly seriously and would have a minute by minute report of what Springsteen had been up to while I 'd been away . |
| 19 | The answer , we suggest , is that Wagner now represented precisely what Schopenhauer had been before : a lifeline to save himself from drowning in his professional specialization , as he went further and further out into it . |
| 20 | He had a fair idea of what Heydrich had been up to in Aalborg , and he hoped he might get confirmation this way . |
| 21 | Later she wondered what Brian had been doing on the towpath , forgetting that his favourite restaurant commanded a view of the canal . |
| 22 | A few miles later , Rogers asked what Gabriel had been doing in the church . |
| 23 | Laura blinked , realising that she had been so buried in her own thoughts that she 'd missed what Carole had been saying . |
| 24 | Topaz had dreaded the moment since she first realized what Timothy had been working up to . |
| 25 | ‘ They would chat about the day , what Alex had been doing — then Alex would come on the phone . |
| 26 | What Hollywood had been doing was living off its wits and trying to survive as best it could but it now responded to this challenge not necessarily by taking Dr Dale 's ‘ entire world ’ as its range but at least by ensuring that there were values in its films . |
| 27 | Only later did she learn that what Rosemary had been doing back in Hazelbury that Saturday when Sebastian had met her had been to come and tell her parents personally that Derek had moved out from the flat they shared and was now living with someone else . |
| 28 | ‘ Sure it was different than what EMI had been expecting , a lot different , but it was what we 'd always wanted to do . ’ |
| 29 | He discovered from his eunuchs what Roshanara had been up to , and , despite her support for him over many years , he disgraced her . |