Example sentences of "[conj] what [pron] was [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not question who it had been or what he was looking for . |
| 2 | that bastard , did n't know where he was gon na , he was indicating but I did n't know whether he was gon na just go on or what he was gon na do . |
| 3 | Stephen did n't know who the boy was or what he was doing on Big Allen and he did n't speak to him . |
| 4 | You just knew that what he was saying about Quigley was true . |
| 5 | So it 's going over the same ground but from the different er different emphasis because clearly my mistake last week was to try and cram in too much and to erm assume that what I was saying about modern sex theory was erm self-evident . |
| 6 | Thinking about this now , I know that what I was saying in wanting my periods back was that I wanted to be a woman , that I wanted and liked my female body , that my years of confusion and self-dislike were beginning to be over . |
| 7 | However , I pointed out that what I was asking for was no more than would comprise a normal police station in a provincial town and that there were many economies to be made by giving up our offices in central London . |
| 8 | than what I was paying for it . |
| 9 | In Tunisia , doing nothing , Finch mooched and grumbled and read , and what he was thinking about had room to expand . |
| 10 | He revealed the background of his little failing and what he was doing about it when talking to me about our tele-coaching scheme . |
| 11 | It was n't the day , it was him and what he was doing to her . |
| 12 | Plus within my environmental thing I would like to be able to see if we can get four areas within the school and what I was thinking about , not the big areas outside in the gardens etcetera but do you know as you walk along from our corridor up past the dining hall and there 's that little bit of enclosed space |
| 13 | I wish I 'd been told early on what I looked like and what I was doing to my body . |
| 14 | I remember standing in the dinner queue and all these kids coming up to me , asking me if it was true , where I had got her from and what I was doing with her . |
| 15 | And what I was gon na say Alan was , perhaps like Mr you know we had one of the ones sitting here that did go up to two services . |
| 16 | And what I was going to be getting for myself at some stage cos I 'd like to do the rest of the curtains myself . |
| 17 | I think it 's more to the point cos what I was doing at Christmas was n't really exploring the attitudes as I wanted |
| 18 | Marian was deep in thought but what she was thinking about she hardly knew : only that there was distance and stillness all around her and that the forest seemed to be watching her , and waiting for something to happen . |
| 19 | And it looked like he was of bureaucracy , but what he was trying to perfectly valid point , that he could n't actually make the final decision . |
| 20 | But what I was gon na say if you can might well be Terry |
| 21 | But mind ya , more like a , but what I was gon na say is , |
| 22 | And when you see them you can think , ah that would be same as what I was doing in that one , and you can work it out for yourselves . |
| 23 | Yes I mean even though what I was saying about do n't worry about the , the , the headlines , you know , it it is there you are , and the last one , but you 're actually just giving someone a clue if they wanted to , or if they wanted to find out very briefly what it is about . |
| 24 | She was able to chat to Ana for most of the meal and what with one thing and another she felt some progress had been made , though what she was doing in this situation she did not know . |