Example sentences of "[was/were] [adv] [verb] [Wh det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh yes I appreciate but I were just wondering what branches they were in , you 've explained that , that . |
| 2 | It 's all a far cry from the days when Jason and Howard were on £40 a week YTS schemes , Gary was touring the cabaret circuit , and Robbie and Mark were still wondering what career direction to take . |
| 3 | In one group they were also shown which letters of the alphabet went with which sounds . |
| 4 | Police were n't saying which terrorist group was responsible . |
| 5 | They were then asked what sort of interest rate they would expect to pay there ( Table 49b ) . |
| 6 | We were then told what tension to use . |
| 7 | A boy was duly found whose mother denied sleeping with any man — the child had been conceived with a spirit . |
| 8 | ‘ I was only repeating what George calls him , ’ said Stella . |
| 9 | I was only saying what Dad says ! |
| 10 | ‘ I was just thinking what guts you had to start sailing again after what happened on Brynteg , ’ he said , surprising her . |
| 11 | I was just wondering what sort of future you wanted to see for women in terms of their awareness of their own power ? |
| 12 | er It was just to show what people had to put up with . |
| 13 | He was not told which chick was in which group until we had completed the entire first series of experiments ( this is our normal lab practice — where possible , especially when two of us are involved in the experiment , to run the work ‘ blind ’ until after the data are analysed , to avoid the possibility of unconscious bias ) . |
| 14 | I could n't cope with never knowing what days I was going to be there — you had to wait till the rota was up to see which days you 'd be working … |
| 15 | It was really to see what people thought of the presentation rather than the prize . ’ |
| 16 | Mathematics was my subject , I was simply transferring what talents I had in that direction from one held to another . ’ |
| 17 | I was then to ask what people thought about being smiled at by a perfect stranger . |
| 18 | If he did n't keep his promise there was no knowing what Lee would do . |
| 19 | Now that Travis had got hold of the scent he would be like a bloodhound , and there was no knowing what Lori would inadvertently reveal . |