Example sentences of "what [was/were] [verb] [prep] [pron] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When it stopped bouncing on what were left of its shock absorbers , I tried to get the driver 's door open but it , and the passenger door , were jammed shut . |
| 2 | well my thoughts had cristalized that we would have to change the direction of er , we communicating with them as we 've done in the past , we could n't just use adverts that we might have used regional in a regional press , we had to pick out the point , in the , in the actual article so that four example there were six or seven points that had clearly been made , statements that had been made , I had to devise a scheme then , er , it was only a scheme in my thinking that actually , I had to devise a scheme that would pick up each of these points encounter them , now there was no way I could simply take an advert out and say , they said this , we say that because that would have had no credibility , so what I was thinking at that time is how we might be able to use some other form of being able to counter those six or seven points and I started to come up with an idea perhaps using a third party , because in our business , third party recommendation are very , very powerful and when selling to the elderly because they do not take , I 'm sorry , they take a long time to come to a decision , they mull over it and such like , they take a lot of influence from people , take advise from family , accountants , solicitors , bank managers and such like , so the idea of having a third party in a sense recommend then would have allowed us to get over those particular points , so that 's what was germinating in my mind at the time |
| 3 | René Descartes , who attempted to discover truth by doubting everything he could manage to doubt , described the first principle of his method like this in A Discourse on Method , ‘ The first rule was never to accept anything for true which I did not clearly know to be such ; that is to say … to comprise nothing more in my judgement than what was presented to my mind so clearly and distinctly as to exclude all ground of doubt . ’ |
| 4 | And then , with his face no more than a foot from her own , she saw what was wedged in his mouth . |
| 5 | The man 's trembling want of her made her feel that speck grow into a force ; she began to enjoy denying him , then permitting him again , she used her strength to grip and pin him and squeeze him in parts that made him cry out , to gouge and scratch his pale , thin flesh , she fortified him with tisanes that make men what was called in her language ‘ cross ’ , and gave him leaves to chew to stay his excitement so she could explore the crustacean pinkness of his flesh and turn her curiosity and its tinge of disgust to a form of power over him which gave her pleasure . |
| 6 | She tried not to think about Andrew , but Oswin knew what was passing through her mind . |
| 7 | A good indication of what was passing through his mind in the aftermath of Barricades Week is provided by a letter that he wrote to his son in mid-February : " we had to be done with the impertinent pressure of the European population in Algiers , with the hard core of politicians which was forming in the army , and finally with the myth of " French Algeria " which merely disguises the desire of the " pieds noirs " to maintain their domination over the Muslims … |
| 8 | And I found that he was universally right — by which I mean that I was answerable in my body and in my heart for what was done to my brother . |
| 9 | Any thought of what was to happen to his family home in Belfast had to be shelved until a joint decision could be reached with his brother when he next came home on leave . |
| 10 | What was left of their election reporting consisted of brief clips from the itineraries of the party leaders . |
| 11 | He never lacked for both helpers and escort , but men on starvation diet take time to respond to good feeding , and their willingness far outran what was left of their strength . |
| 12 | The Westons retrieved what was left of their stock and headed for Bristol , where they sold what they could in the markets there . |
| 13 | Further food for thought : Cohen Griffith , the winger Kettering signed for £3,000 from Leicester United last season , has joined Cardiff for 20 times that amount ; the GM Vauxhall Conference leaders Darlington will defend a 10-match unbeaten start , the best in the competition 's 10 years , tomorrow at Enfield ; and Dunstable have withdrawn from the FA Cup following the 38th-minute abandonment of the tie with Staines when what was left of their team walked off after the dismissal of three colleagues . |
| 14 | During November , the Bank took advantage of rising bond prices to sell what was left of its tap stocks and to announce the auction of £1.5 billion of 9% conversion 2011 . |
| 15 | It was only as the girl grew older and she realized that her mother was simply mouthing words and had no intention whatsoever of carrying out her threat that she had begun to be able to relax and enjoy what was left of her childhood . |
| 16 | With a hesitant smile she turned away from him , and sipped what was left of her champagne and gazed out of the window . |
| 17 | France , frightened by the occupation of their country by Hitler , was determined to hold onto what was left of her empire . |
| 18 | Susan says it 's dreadful to stare , and I do try not to , but I ca n't always remember , ’ she said candidly , and drank what was left of her cowslip wine . |
| 19 | Not that you could take what was left of your mind off the sockets and the junction boxes . |
| 20 | Undaunted , his lower leg and ankle in plaster , Hoppy led what was left of his battalion across mountainous jungle terrain teeming with enemy units to Imphal , where the battalion was re-formed at less than half strength . |
| 21 | He narrowed his mouth into an O shape and pushed his eyebrows up into what was left of his hair . |
| 22 | This is what was left of his council house after it was struck by a bolt of lightning for the SECOND time in 2 weeks . |
| 23 | Joshua 's father , Moishe , the community 's Rabbi , cherished his grandson and would have devoted what was left of his life to guiding him through the intricacies ' of Talmud and Gemara to the Rabbinate if Jacob had shown any vocation . |
| 24 | He worked frantically to help the casualties , tearing up what was left of his linen for bandages and soaking them in olive oil and wax to apply to bums . |
| 25 | [ 2 ] He took all his pain and what was left of his strength and his long-gone pride and he put it against the fish 's agony and the fish came over onto his side and swam gently on his side , his bill almost touching the planking of the skiff , and started to pass the boat , long , deep , wide , silver and barred with purple and interminable in the water . |
| 26 | Quigley stretched out both his arms across the table and looked up at what was left of his roof . |
| 27 | Swiftly Nora took her foot off the jar and , while Bryant was busy retrieving what was left of his beer , she darted forward and whisked the bag from under the girl . |
| 28 | From them I learnt where what was left of my battalion were . |
| 29 | She drained what was left in her glass and set it down . |
| 30 | He downed what was left in his glass and thought about pouring himself another . |