Example sentences of "was [Wh adv] [pron] [was/were] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I was wondering was how you were planning to get even . ’ |
| 2 | That was how it was going to be between them , just as she made him sleep on the floor beside their honeymoon bed in the Ritz . |
| 3 | So this was how it was going to be from now on , Maria accepted as she turned to go and find the keys . |
| 4 | If this was how it was going to end I wanted to know . |
| 5 | Her concern now was how she was going to cover the syllabus since she had used up so much time on these practical activities . |
| 6 | I asked the copper in the back if that was where we were heading but he said , ‘ Just follow , ’ so I did , and it was . |
| 7 | Léonie said that was where they were going . |
| 8 | Fabia arose on Sunday morning , thought of Cara , of Barney , and of the man she had never yet met but , with guilty conscience , hoped to , and then attempted to shed her anxieties by remembering that , with Františkovy Láznë being less than twenty-five miles away , Františkovy Láznë was where she was heading for that day . |
| 9 | Mm That was where I was trying to get the blackbirds |
| 10 | Then he said , " In fairness to the Old Man , all the rest of it 's true ; I mean he did say you could come back to Drummonds later , for you to have fifty out of petty cash — which was where I was going to get it from to pay myself back " |
| 11 | And the Reeve 's Way , that was where I was going to march my army . |
| 12 | Ullapool was where I was heading there being no boats from Gairloch to Stornoway as in JTR 's day . |
| 13 | That was where he was herding them , and it was the last place she felt like going , especially now . |
| 14 | They had no reason to suppose that he had been in pursuit of them , the western ride led in the general direction of the outlaws ' Great Camp and they presumed that was where he was going . |
| 15 | It covered a large area , and I really would n't have minded leaving Nigel there , but the compost heap was what he wanted , and the compost heap was where he was going . |
| 16 | He thought he knew it all , and that was where he was going to come unstuck . |
| 17 | It came out of what we saw going on , the increasing pressure on kids today compared with how it was when we were growing up . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , she did , but it was when we were going to the station to see him off . |
| 19 | It was when they were assembling for dinner that they had noticed her absence . |
| 20 | As Gains ( from Toronto , but now living in Croydon ) told me in an interview in 1980 : ‘ The only time Godfrey had the handcuffs off was when he was fighting another black man . ’ |
| 21 | And that was when he was feeling merciful . |
| 22 | Burton has declared that it was when he was performing that scene on the stage that he felt the hairs on his neck stand on end and knew for the first time the power he could have over an audience . |
| 23 | It was when he was testing the third of those with his stethoscope that Carrington beckoned to Talbot , who came and listened in turn . |
| 24 | Another experience was when he was praying before the crucifix in San Damiano and it seemed to him that it gave him the message , " Build my church " , which he immediately interpreted quite literally as , " Save this church from crumbling into ruins " . |
| 25 | Sometimes they used it on him when he was waiting to be served by a barman , or even when he was just standing waiting to cross a busy street , but mostly it was when he was talking to somebody official . |
| 26 | Judd said half the fun of being with girls was when he was doing the chasing . |
| 27 | It was when I was living in New York , in Greenwich Village , in 1974 , after completing a semester of ‘ creative writing workshops ’ at Ohio University , where I had been very happy . |
| 28 | It was when I was resting my hand on her flank to steady her that I noticed the little swelling under the skin . |
| 29 | It was when I was gazing dully at the finger , the heel of my hand resting in an intercostal space , that I felt the faintest flutter from below . |
| 30 | ‘ My only real previous acting experience was when I was working for Walt Disney Productions and had to visit sick children in hospital dressed up in a Pluto costume . |