Example sentences of "what [pers pn] [vb past] be [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Next day she called again , and then the ‘ witch ’ took her into the kitchen and showed her what she had been making all that morning — toffee-apples ! |
| 2 | She had never known any other man but Dan , but after tonight she was more than aware of what she had been missing all these years . |
| 3 | Mrs Abigail , similarly affected , believed that what she 'd been dreading all day had now come about : the parents of some child had arrived at the bungalow . |
| 4 | My father grilled us about what we had been doing all week . |
| 5 | When it was Meehan 's turn and they asked him what he had been doing that night , he said he had driven to Stranraer ( to case the motor taxation office , he admitted later ) with an Englishman called Jim Griffiths ; and they had come back via the outskirts of Ayr in the early hours of the morning . |