Example sentences of "what [pron] [was/were] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | I do n't remember what I was reading that Friday evening . |
2 | what the what the pay is now here is what I was earning three years to four years ago |
3 | That 's what I was quoted last week . |
4 | ‘ He asked me what I was doing last night , and then one or two questions about mother . ’ |
5 | That 's what I was doing last night . |
6 | Carolyn found everything about Bryony so alien that she could not begin to guess what she was doing that Bryony did n't like . |
7 | Couriers are regularly in and out of Felcourt and one guy from DHL , Pete , plucked up the courage to ask Clare what she was doing that weekend . |
8 | She had known what she was doing last night . |
9 | Which is what we were given last year . |
10 | Encouraged , he said : ‘ Well , you remember what we were saying last night , about Scott Fitzgerald … ’ |
11 | Guess what we were doing last night . |
12 | There were all sorts of jokes about National Service and this was going to be one of them — the barracks filled with misfits who no more wanted to wear a khaki uniform than they felt like taking poison ( which some of them thought was what they were given three times a day in the cookhouse ) . |
13 | ‘ We need to check what he was doing those days , anyway — I did n't try too hard when we were last there , because I hoped the autopsy might give us something . |
14 | It was impossible to tell what he was doing this afternoon . |
15 | He knew what he was asking these people to do and he did not like it , but there was no other way . |
16 | What he was saying hurt Shiona more than she could ever have believed possible . |