Example sentences of "what [vb past] [pers pn] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That was what made me so nervous when we played , knowing they were both watching . |
| 2 | Nor could she have said what made her so positive about this assumption that had become a fixture in her head — unless it was the fact of Silas 's previous near engagement to Doreen . |
| 3 | What made them so unpopular that they are n't even commemorated in a country name . |
| 4 | Asked what made him so positive , he said : ‘ No sooner was the body found than he ran away from home . |
| 5 | His wife was ill , very ill , and what made it even worse was that he felt responsible for her illness . |
| 6 | What made it even worse was that she had to pretend to enjoy it . |
| 7 | This is what made it still possible — though to a rapidly diminishing extent — for workers in the newly industrialising areas to remain half-agricultural . |
| 8 | What made it more extraordinary was that everything had conspired against them , from the Home Unions committee 's refusal to grant them official Lions status right through to the kick-off . |
| 9 | What made it more significant was that over 7,000 Sheffield fans were following us . ’ |
| 10 | What made it more difficult for the social workers in Orkney , she said , was the very small size of the department ; they had few colleagues with whom to share the stress . |
| 11 | What made it so easy for you to make your mind up ? ’ |
| 12 | What made it so enchanting was the setting . |
| 13 | They er well I think constitutionally it 's very difficult and this is why there is now in a similar sense as why I suggested it to you as a subject , because not only it was er a very emotional story of a glamorous young woman saying I ca n't cope with being treated by the media and other people , I 'm going to retreat but what made it so historic and therefore the treatment of it 's so interesting , was that it presented such an extraordinary constitutional position |
| 14 | What made it so difficult for Spaniards during the 1930s to coexist peacefully ? |
| 15 | So 200 people came to an event , organised by the Farming Wildlife and Advisory Group — FWAG — to see for themselves what made it so special . |
| 16 | That 's what made it so obvious , because it was , he would put the records on , and then come out and start dancing , and I thought I 'm not going that No , they played that , sh what 's it , shake , shake , shake the room , |
| 17 | ‘ Then what made you so sure somebody 'd been in ? |
| 18 | ‘ What made you so sure about me ? ’ she queried . |
| 19 | ‘ What made you so scared ? |
| 20 | What pleased me very much was that someone said of my first photographs taken abroad that they looked like they had been taken anywhere . |
| 21 | What pleased me very much was that someone said of my first photographs taken abroad that they looked as if they could have been taken anywhere . |
| 22 | So what maked them so different ? |
| 23 | I had seen only one other porno film before , a miserable five-minute affair in grainy black and white in Tangiers , and what surprised me about two of the three films was the quality of the finished product . |
| 24 | Summerhill — which , by the universal testimony of its ( largely American ) pupils , ‘ sucks ’ — seemed to be turning out children who were not merely unbalanced but pig-ignorant ; and that was what shocked me so much . |
| 25 | What took me so long to take you off the lowest shelf ( were they trying to hide you ? ) in W H Smith , and take you home ? |
| 26 | If there voting on then it 's traditional , point of order during the speech , thank you very much and what took me so long . |
| 27 | Ca n't think what took you so long to get around to it , old chap , ’ Aubrey said . |
| 28 | What worried him far more than the prospect of change , was the fact that he shied away from it , as a man set in his ways , and that was something he had never considered himself to be . |
| 29 | And that was what marked it as different from his previous assignment . |
| 30 | So what impressed us so much ? |