Example sentences of "[vb past] what [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | E. John Brown started what became a famous shipyard , now called Govan Shipbuilders , at Clydebank , in Glasgow . |
| 2 | Tessa Dahl 's famous father Roald certainly knew what made a good children 's book , and judging by The Same But Different , with illustrations by Arthur Robins ( Puffin , £2.99 ) , she 's got a pretty good idea too . |
| 3 | Mehringer was slumped in the rope when his partner , above , saw what seemed a huge sheet of glass cascading down . |
| 4 | As he turned Hause Point and caught a clear sight of Mary 's Buttermere , the lonely valley , he experienced what seemed a physical soaring of his spirits , a giddy uplift of heart . |
| 5 | He wrote what became a celebrated memorandum to Cordell Hull , the secretary of state , in which he declared that he was " thrilled by the idea of using iran as an example of what we could do by an unselfish American policy . |