Example sentences of "[Wh det] [was/were] [verb] he [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She discovered though that it was not the odd-job man 's name which was causing him mild amusement , but her ! |
| 2 | But they sparkled not outwardly but inwardly , for the deity which was causing him such intense satisfaction was inside himself . |
| 3 | He tended to be rather naïve in his dealings with others ; outspokenly critical , to the point of rudeness , of his less gifted fellow-musicians — a trait which was to earn him many enemies ; deceitful on occasion ; and certainly arrogant , in an age when obsequiousness and servile flattery were necessary to ensure success . |
| 4 | It would seem as though The Hobbit , for instance , the story which was to make him famous when it was published in 1937 , had existed in embryonic form as early as about 1930 . |
| 5 | What was worrying him more , he said , was the language barrier which prevented him from linking up with his Japanese teammates . |