Example sentences of "what [was/were] [adv] [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would n't say what was n't working out , though I guess it was the sexual frustration and not being able to put a date on setting up home together . |
| 2 | Fourthly , as the example of the ‘ Church Struggle ’ showed , Hitler was widely viewed — even by prominent Church leaders with a reputation for hostility to Nazism — as personally sincere , and in matters affecting established traditions and institutions as a ‘ moderate ’ opposed to the radical and extreme elements in the Nazi Movement , but largely kept in the dark about what was actually going on . |
| 3 | A feature of the in-service programme at Codsall Comprehensive School , for instance , was a guided tour of the school , the Director of Resources showing teachers what was actually going on in other departments . |
| 4 | The mismatch between a head 's espoused values and what was actually going on in the classroom could be startling — and indeed is a recurrent theme in several of our interim reports , notably 10 and 11 . |
| 5 | Wh what , what was actually going on at the tenants ' group then ? |
| 6 | Carlson had been wondering for some time what was actually going on . |
| 7 | For the best part of an hour he exposed what was really going on in the international motor industry . |
| 8 | But in these cases it is necessary to know what was really going on at the time . |
| 9 | I wish there was a abetter metaphor , but like Pink Floyd we could have made music about what was really going on in my head and messed around with what being a pop star was all about . ’ |
| 10 | There were yet other critics who were all too aware of what was really going on . |
| 11 | What was really going on inside its mutated mind ? |
| 12 | They could talk all they wanted about incorrectly filled-out forms , wrong addresses and the like ; he knew what was really going on . |
| 13 | Jessamy wished again that she knew what was really going on inside his head . |
| 14 | ‘ When did you ever tell me what was really going on in your head ? |
| 15 | Malpass had told me a few more bits of the story ; not enough to know what was really going on but just enough to make me feel uncomfortable . |
| 16 | This new book shows how good manners held nineteenth century society together … but with all we know about what was really going on , can the Victorians really have got it right … |
| 17 | I think I wanted to convince myself that I was going to be all right because if I did n't and if I stopped to think about what was really going on , I would have been a mess . |
| 18 | You knew what was possibly going on . |