Example sentences of "[noun sg] what [pron] [was/were] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And wherever there was a suggestion of a space there would be a craftsman bent over his work : a weaver over his loom , a metal-worker crouched over a dish of grey ash fanning a lump of live charcoal in its midst with a blowpipe , a basket-worker holding what he was making with his toes so as to leave his hands free , a turner doing his turning with a little bow which might have been used to shoot arrows , the man making pegs for the ornate wooden windows . |
| 2 | Now bearing in mind what we were saying about exchange rates before the break , if the pound was strong that obviously implied that people wanted to buy sterling , but what goods did they want to buy off us ? |
| 3 | The format worked well because the interviewees were never told in advance what they were going to be asked . |
| 4 | Now 54 , he earns double what he was getting at Narva , and is helping to develop business with east German companies . |
| 5 | So style what you were talking about when they base ideas , just concentrate on what you are doing cos you 're doing some good work you know when they base ideas on the past , that is looking back , yeah , like see this word retro , going back , right . |
| 6 | She met Penry 's favourite sister Kit and her husband , Reid Livesey , ate some supper , laughed and chatted with more of Penry 's friends , and all the time she burned with the need to ask Penry what he was playing at , why he 'd thrown down his unexpected announcement like a gauntlet in front of his voluptuous ex-wife . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'm sorry , ’ she apologised breathlessly , so bemused by that time that she had n't a clue what she was apologising for . |
| 8 | I looked at him puzzled and said I did n't have a clue what he was talking about . |
| 9 | ( At the time I had not a clue what he was talking about but , in hindsight , he was , of course , referring to Boleyn 's ascendancy over Fat Henry and Wolsey falling like a star from the sky of royal preferment . ) |
| 10 | ‘ I do n't , ’ she told him , a shade edgily it was true , but then , for all he understood , and spoke her language , she still did n't have a clue what he was talking about . |
| 11 | Stan , can I just turn round the other way what you were talking about there ? |
| 12 | base , you know the spring unit what you were talking about . |
| 13 | We had no idea what they were looking for . |
| 14 | I had no idea what he was referring to , and remembering his strange behaviour with the piece of paper , I began to fear that he might be going mad . |
| 15 | I nodded , although I had absolutely no idea what he was talking about . |
| 16 | Because , you see , I had no idea what he was talking about . |
| 17 | I had n't any idea what he was talking about but I listened attentively to his description of lands I had never imagined , with their dark green forests , snowy slopes and frozen lakes . |
| 18 | The last few hours had so driven my off-duty life from my mind that , momentarily , I had no idea what she was getting at . |
| 19 | She had no idea what she was looking for . |
| 20 | Mungo nodded , though he had not the faintest idea what she was talking about . |
| 21 | The Sandrat had no idea what she was talking about . |
| 22 | Well that 's probably just what it sounded like when you have n't any idea what she was talking about , but I think that . |
| 23 | I had no idea what I was looking for and certainly no intention of starting on the filing cabinets . |
| 24 | Rock was rebelling against my parents , but jazz was rebelling against my parents as well as all my peers , because they did n't have any idea what I was talking about ! ’ |
| 25 | Joe had n't the faintest idea what I was talking about but he worked away enthusiastically and by the next afternoon we were ready to hang the rope-ladder . |