Example sentences of "[v-ing] what was [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was suffering from diphtheria , most of the adult staff were women , and nobody was explaining what was happening to me . |
| 2 | I sit on a flat stone in one — the straw thatched roof would just have cleared my head — imagining what was kept in the neat stone alcoves . |
| 3 | The most difficult part of the exercise , apart from handling the sheer volume of data that was being produced , was deciding what was meant by ‘ monitor and control ’ for each system element , and then drawing out the related information . |
| 4 | She says it 's turning what was presented to us as a local bypass into a major through-way — motorway style — six lanes , elevated to 35 feet in places , lit all night slap through Oxford 's green belt . |
| 5 | She says it 's turning what was presented as a local bypass into a major through-way — motor-way style — 6 lanes — elevated to 35 feet , lit up all night — slap through Oxford 's green-belt . |
| 6 | All three of the Americans were watching DeVore closely now , ignoring what was happening on the screen . |
| 7 | ‘ I was sitting there staring at four white walls wondering what was happening to me . |
| 8 | There I was , back on a drip , and wondering what was happening to me . |
| 9 | She stood still for several minutes , wondering what was happening to her . |
| 10 | Athelstan stood there dreaming , wondering what was happening in St Erconwald 's . |
| 11 | The second task was to follow through the police response to this demand , noting what was committed to paper , which officers dealt with incidents , the goals they were seeking to achieve , and what actually happened . |
| 12 | Hearings and appeals became part of the pattern of life for the families , their legal advisers , their friends and supporters , and indeed for the press and media corps that were reporting what was happening to the outside world . |
| 13 | Jos said to Mungo , breaking what was left of the ice . |
| 14 | The pupil seems to be giving instructions for others to follow rather than saying what was done in this specific instance . |
| 15 | You see our most recent budget was largely constructed even neglecting what was happening in other industrial countries . |
| 16 | At 30 he had amassed enough knowledge of transcendental experience systems to make him a contender for the job of running what was regarded by many as one of Europe 's best Transcendental Operations Modules . |
| 17 | His fingers were stained with blue-green ink and he constantly kept scratching what was left of his wispy , greasy , grey hair . |
| 18 | Graham commented that in practice budgeting was usually a matter of upgrading finding bared on historical foundations rather than calculating what was required for the services that were needed , and he referred to university funding being ‘ budget-led ’ rather than ‘ product-led ’ . |
| 19 | A Greek oil tanker broke up and spilled 12,000 tonnes of light crude oil off the west coast of Australia on 21 July , creating what was described as the country 's worst such environmental disaster . |
| 20 | Even with the present set-up , their seemed reasonable recruitment figures overall but few stayed the course to reach the upper levels of racing achievement creating what was described as ‘ a meatless sandwich . ’ |
| 21 | On June 14 , 1989 , the largest and most expensive US space booster , the Titan-4 , was launched from Cape Canaveral , Florida , successfully deploying what was thought to be a secret military satellite capable of providing early warning of nuclear attack . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The attempt by Frenchmen to seize a Chinese junk carrying what was considered to be a cargo of contraband fuel , and their ensuing capture by Vietminh militia , was an unlikely incident to trigger a war and falls , no doubt , into Aristotle 's category of trivial occasions . |
| 24 | I remembered seeing pictures of German prisoners carrying what was described as their emergency Red Cross clothing in Tate and Lyle sugar boxes through London . |
| 25 | Er and that was the system and of course the thing was that with the riveters being on piece work , apart from negotiating a wage , you were negotiating what was known as a price list , and er whereas you would get X amounts of shillings or pounds for so many hundred rivets , or whatever it was , then the argument would be that that price should be upped because of the the cost of living going up , or whatever you know . |
| 26 | Take us and Europe now , is n't it odd that , after two world wars , in which our men who died , our nations sacrificed themselves in fighting what was thought to be the great German danger , we now find ourselves at least as much hostile to our allies in both of those wars — the French — as we do to the Germans , and if one could measure this sort of thing it might well be that in the British public at large you would find more sympathy towards the Germans than the French . |
| 27 | In the past , women patients were satisfied with accepting what was offered to them , but now they have started to take control . |
| 28 | To the extent that he went further so as to suggest that in no circumstances could the speeches be looked at other than for the purposes of seeing what was said on a particular date , his remarks have to be understood in the context of the issues which arose in that case . |
| 29 | In the meantime , I kept using what was left of Ted 's Excalibur . |
| 30 | Meal times were silent : everyone at the table in time for grace to be said ; everyone eating what was set before him . |