Example sentences of "[verb] what [was/were] [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This provided what was perceived as a very secure milieu : as Chaplin ( 1978 , p. 82 ) describes it : ‘ You were known , you were named , you had your place , you could make your mark in life ’ . |
| 2 | They 'd want to be sure the items had been reported stolen and the person who owns this suitcase for example , would need to know what was written on the other side . |
| 3 | Michael Liley , the Association Director , has pointed out that important changes were in the offing , and it was important to know what was to happen as the change were likely to be found unpleasant in the trade . |
| 4 | " Now , I do n't want to know what was discussed at the meeting ; if I did I could find that out easily enough . |
| 5 | I do n't know what was said at the relief office but when Dad came back he just threw the ration card on the table in disgust . |
| 6 | We did n't know what was happening at the time , we thought he was choking . |
| 7 | " The Shah wanted to go to America because he did n't know what Sullivan was reporting and did n't know what was happening in the US . |
| 8 | Even now he did n't fully know what was meant by the line the stars threw down their spears . |
| 9 | to admit him as a member breached what was known as the Bridlington Agreement , which governed the relationships between trades unions . |
| 10 | As they fall , as in the example given , they merely replace what was lost in an earlier time period . |
| 11 | Though never a gourmet , I appreciated also the food at Ika 's home , as I found what was provided at the Cité Universitaire almost inedible , even accustomed as we in Britain were to such unappetising fare as powdered egg and cakes baked with liquid paraffin . |
| 12 | So the moment the shout was heard , one of them would rush and then try to provide what was wanted on the instant . |
| 13 | I 'd forgotten what was happening in the world until Treacher pronounced those ancient incantations from my childhood . |
| 14 | Governments in Britain in the eighteenth century did not do very much ; some of the neglect of the colonies simply paralleled what was happening in the British Isles . |
| 15 | And it was thought that the movement in England and Wales in the late 1960s , towards the extension of teachers ' centres was an attempt to create what was described as a focus for teacher renewal . |
| 16 | To supplement the natural barrier provided by the marshes themselves , ditches were constructed that could be flooded with giant pumps and even electrified , to create what was described by the Guardian 's correspondent as a ‘ giant moat ’ and by the Iraqi corps commander of the area as a ‘ fish trap ’ . |
| 17 | I sit on a flat stone in one — the straw thatched roof would just have cleared my head — imagining what was kept in the neat stone alcoves . |
| 18 | The Community Charge was introduced to replace what was seen as the ‘ unfairness ’ of the old local authority rates system . |
| 19 | Er well we 'd er er distribute the leaflets , we 'd er do what was known as the whitewashing , in other words , er er er whitewash slogans , whitewash times of meetings , whitewash the announcement of er er times of arrival , er and things of this character . |
| 20 | Even more surprising was the Committee 's rejection of the ‘ deprave and corrupt ’ test , since the selling of the idea that sadism can be highly pleasurable , as described above , or the reinforcing of that idea in those already attracted to it , must surely epitomise what was intended by the phrase ‘ deprave and corrupt ’ , at least as that test is interpreted by the BBFC . |
| 21 | She says it 's turning what was presented as a local bypass into a major through-way — motor-way style — 6 lanes — elevated to 35 feet , lit up all night — slap through Oxford 's green-belt . |
| 22 | he sez he saw the plaque and thought he 'd see what was recorded on the air disaster . |
| 23 | he sez he saw the plaque and thought he 'd see what was recorded on the air disaster . |
| 24 | Do you see , do you see what was written on the olive oil bottle and it says it 's got polyunsaturates . |
| 25 | In that you could see what was happening on the floor but it did n't show continuity of work which easily |
| 26 | It was attached to the monitor so the nurses could see what was happening to the baby and every time I had a contraction my stomach went rock hard so the belt dug into me . |
| 27 | The tabloid newspapers decided it was their duty to reveal that Gatting had invited a barmaid to his hotel room during the Test match , and that he and other players had taken part in ‘ sex romps ’ with girls from the hotel ; though how the newshounds , scrabbling around in the bushes outside , could see what was happening in the rooms was not really clear . |
| 28 | When pressed by the defence on how he could see what was happening in the dark the man replied : ‘ I was reared without lights . |
| 29 | Speich was serious — being German but he was also serious because he could see what was coming over the horizon looked like a storm . |
| 30 | I lived in a room off the kitchen , so thin-walled that it was impossible not to hear what was happening in the dining room unless Wu had a gadget going . |