Example sentences of "was [Wh adv] [pers pn] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had fixed his star on the great Shakespearian roles — that , in his professional life , was what he lived by , that was how he tested himself to the limit . |
| 2 | That was how he put it in his theological terms . |
| 3 | Mrs Webster was very understanding about my wanting to team up with Wendy , which was how I put it to her ; and when I left she gave me a Victorian glass inkwell and a brown ironstone plate , because I ‘ liked old things ’ . |
| 4 | That was how I wanted it to be , but what made me ache was the knowledge that Jo could n't have all she wanted : to he the writer of stories , whose stories were her children , but heart-breakingly not to have Laurie . |
| 5 | Buttoned up and locked in was how she described him to herself . |
| 6 | That was how she described it to herself , although what it really meant was that he took her to bed whenever he felt like it and occasionally gave her an absent-minded smile backstage . |
| 7 | And it was n't arbitrary it was where we needed somebody at that time . |
| 8 | The first some of the Tank members knew of their fate was when they read it in The Times . |
| 9 | That was when they used it on him . |
| 10 | The one time I ever cried in school was when he blamed me with a severity that seemed to hurt him … . |
| 11 | Only once did Kinnock appear out of his separate cabin in the leader 's aircraft in order to talk to reporters , and that was when he thanked them for a birthday card . |
| 12 | The most intriguing matter supplied by Gaitskell was when he consulted me about the constant leakage of the party 's National Executive minutes to the Manchester Guardian . |
| 13 | That was when he gave it to you . |
| 14 | A classic example was when he found himself at the centre of media and national attention after taking over the chairmanship of the troubled Westland Group in June 1985 . |
| 15 | ‘ The closest I ever got to any man was when I had him in the sights of the rifle and I never missed . ’ |
| 16 | That was when I met you for the first time , last week , at the consciousness-raising group that we started at the women 's centre a few weeks ago . |
| 17 | I recalled de Sade 's heroine , Justine , and reflected that he too would be alive now , if now was when I believed it to be . |
| 18 | A sentence in the loser 's statement to the effect that ‘ the last time I saw my watch was when I put it in my locker at work ’ or ‘ I placed my purse in my shopping basket ’ shows that he had possession or control of the property , |
| 19 | I realized what a marvellous actor he was when I saw him in this and only wished that he had n't relied so much on the funny voices and hidden behind the easier way out of doing the characters that he could do so easily — and it was easy for him . |
| 20 | ‘ Twenty-four years old he was when I found him in the provost 's prison in Paris , and paid his fine to get him for my own , him and that foster-brother of his whom you know well . ’ |
| 21 | The most beautiful moment was when she asked me for my recipe for Pavlova cake . |
| 22 | Perhaps this was why I turned myself into some happy-snap Diane Arbus , seizing the camera and cavorting mirthfully in search of an angle which would set off Stuart 's embryonically goitrous condition to a satirical T. Displacement activity . |