Example sentences of "was [verb] [prep] what the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | The first of these reports was given on July 2 by Prime Minister Nikolai Ryzhkov , who was heard in what the Independent of the following day described as an atmosphere of " chilly disdain " . |
2 | It has not happened since the end of the Second World War , but before the 1987 election , when some commentators were predicting a hung parliament , much thought was given to what the Queen would do about forming a government if they turned out to be right . |
3 | S/L Paul Millikin was pressed for what the future held for the aircraft , to one question he replied ‘ I do n't know if there is talk from Whitehall … nobody tells me anything ! ’ |
4 | ‘ I was devastated by what the letter said because I never , never used steroids . |
5 | Nothing more was said about what the scope of review for administrative institutions and inferior courts actually was and no dichotomy was drawn between them . |
6 | Sutton was looking at what the public bought today . |
7 | The comparison that I made in The Independent newspaper was based on what the Secretary of State 's own review had recommended as the number required to run the system . |
8 | But good old butter was replaced by what the label described as ‘ vegetable and animal fat ’ . |
9 | Evidence from Brean Down , Somerset , is not so clear , but there were drastic changes , and evidence of demolition was followed by what the excavator , A. M. ApSimon , depicts as ‘ squatter occupation ’ . |
10 | Her heart was touched by what the duchess had offered her and by what had been asked of herself in return . |
11 | The hon. Gentleman makes a fair point , which is not very different from the point that I was making about what the governor of Brixton prison knew several months before those IRA terrorists broke out . |
12 | Concern was expressed at what the effect would be when attaching a means-tested service to a free one . |