Example sentences of "was [adv] [verb] [prep] what the " in BNC.

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1 The epilogue to this evening 's survival devotions was , strange as it may seem , exactly as I should have expected it to turn out , I do not remember when I missed — or at what stage — my flight engineer , but when I returned to camp and was literally wallowing in what the High Master at Command had to say to me .
2 The whole secret was not to listen to what the other person was saying , Masklin had noticed .
3 He was not looking at what the girl was doing with the match .
4 They drew no distinction between what the industry needed and what it wanted , with the result that government policy was usually determined by what the foreign mining companies asked for ’ .
5 According to salacious press reports he was unfairly implicated in what the tabloids refer to as ‘ a three-in-the-bed ’ scandal .
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