Example sentences of "he [was/were] [verb] what [art] " in BNC.
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1 | I remember when he was asked what the principal crop of Thailand was and he answered transistor radios . |
2 | Truman once said he was asked what the job of the presidency involved and Truman once said I sit here all day trying to persuade people to do the things they ought to have the sense to do without my persuading them . |
3 | Hitler no longer seemed to be speaking to convince ; rather , he seemed to feel that he was expressing what the audience , by now transformed into a single mass , expected of him . |
4 | He was realizing what a change Tess 's confession had made to his whole life . |
5 | He was doing what the saint willed . ’ |
6 | He was feeling what the laser would have felt , had it been of flesh and bone . |
7 | Arthur Ibbetson , the English cameraman who worked with him on several occasions , first notes how alarmed he was to discover what a bad skin Richard had and then enthuses without pause about the shape of his face , his professionalism , his patience . |