Example sentences of "what [verb] it " in BNC.
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| 1 | I know , that 's what I said , that 's what got it |
| 2 | I was longing to get back to it , or perhaps its associations with Toby were what lent it this sudden magnetism . " |
| 3 | small farmers and , what producing it would represent ? |
| 4 | Character , what makes it , what destroys it . |
| 5 | • Is the clock the same in all of us and at all stages of our lives ? • What do we know about the clock itself — where is it , what influences it , and how does it work ? • What is the usefulness of such a clock ? |
| 6 | None of the cases in this court to which Mr. Munby has invited our attention are binding on us because seemingly the court never considered what powers it had to make a suitable order under section 13 of the Act of 1960 . |
| 7 | But I do n't what price it is . |
| 8 | What made it more extraordinary was that everything had conspired against them , from the Home Unions committee 's refusal to grant them official Lions status right through to the kick-off . |
| 9 | What made it more significant was that over 7,000 Sheffield fans were following us . ’ |
| 10 | What made it so enchanting was the setting . |
| 11 | It was , as the Duchess said in her speech , an exciting event because Derbyshire had so few smaller manor houses of this type open to the public — and what made it all the more special was the fact that Eyam Hall is still the family home of the Wrights , who built ( or rather rebuilt ) it , a few years after the plague , in 1671 . |
| 12 | ‘ What made it into an island then ? ’ |
| 13 | But what made it so was the school , and the way the courses were taught . |
| 14 | What made it worse , was that the police had the time of the tram-cars and the time it took to get to a certain stop . |
| 15 | It was a dangerous time , and what made it even more dangerous was the arrival of some strange new neighbours . |
| 16 | I could listen to this over and over again , but I guess that 's what made it a hit . |
| 17 | What made it fun on the night was the fact that we knew what we were doing . |
| 18 | ( It was also , of course , disgusting and deplorable : that 's what made it such a success . ) |
| 19 | What made it more difficult for the social workers in Orkney , she said , was the very small size of the department ; they had few colleagues with whom to share the stress . |
| 20 | What made it worth recording several centuries later was that Ella was successful ; for the next fifteen years or so he established his authority in the south by force of arms , firmly ‘ pacifying ’ recalcitrant Britons . |
| 21 | And that 's what made it work . ’ |
| 22 | That 's what made it so hard . |
| 23 | This was not snoring but a kind of clicking , irregular and sporadic — that was what made it irritating — and liable to start when least expected . |
| 24 | His wife was ill , very ill , and what made it even worse was that he felt responsible for her illness . |
| 25 | That 's what made it seem all the more strange when she turned in on herself , so to speak , in the end . ’ |
| 26 | What made it worse was that he had a terrible cold at the time . |
| 27 | Especially on the second night , I had the feeling that he wanted to talk , and what made it the more interesting was the variety of his experiences and the mature way in which he alluded to them . |
| 28 | What made it so difficult for Spaniards during the 1930s to coexist peacefully ? |
| 29 | In a taped interview with Jill Jones , Head of Science in a comprehensive , which I shall quote from several times , I asked her , after she had been talking for a while about the frustrations , what made it all worthwhile . |
| 30 | What made it easy was that earlier charters had been produced by so many different monastic scriptoria in so many house styles that spotting the inauthentic was a task for the dedicated scholar — who in any case was more likely to be employed in propagating fraud than in hunting it out . |