Example sentences of "what [vb past] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Over the millennia , other wrecks and crippled vessels were welded to the first , in whole or in part , or were crashed into place in what became a vast assembly kilometres across and deep . |
| 2 | Akehurst 's passion for the subject of international law led him to embark on the writing of what became a standard student textbook , A Modern Introduction to International Law . |
| 3 | Inevitably , it had been parodied in the Eye as Men of the Past , awakening in Branson the first stirrings of what became a lasting sensitivity to adverse publicity . |
| 4 | E. John Brown started what became a famous shipyard , now called Govan Shipbuilders , at Clydebank , in Glasgow . |
| 5 | He wrote what became a celebrated memorandum to Cordell Hull , the secretary of state , in which he declared that he was " thrilled by the idea of using iran as an example of what we could do by an unselfish American policy . |
| 6 | The turning-point in what became a distinguished career came on 22 February 1897 , when he started work in the drawing office of the Metropolitan Railway Company at Neasden works , where he pursued both mechanics and architecture , being ultimately appointed as assistant to the chief surveyor and architect . |
| 7 | Tessa Dahl 's famous father Roald certainly knew what made a good children 's book , and judging by The Same But Different , with illustrations by Arthur Robins ( Puffin , £2.99 ) , she 's got a pretty good idea too . |
| 8 | The servility of the old-style caddie may have gone forever , but Sir Henry 's view on what made a good caddie in 1934 , and three years later when he won at Carnoustie , is interesting because it still holds true today in the day and age of the yardage chart : ‘ My caddie Butler was content to jog along all day without speaking unless he was spoken to . |
| 9 | Incautiously taking what seemed a marvellous idea from a friend , the notion of two people who each wished to get rid of someone swapping victims , he discovered when his book was written that this was precisely the plot for a novel by Patricia Highsmith , Stranger on a Train , which neither he nor his friend knew of . |
| 10 | What seemed a daunting quantity of hard male muscle clenched into action as he sat up and swung his long legs to the ground . |
| 11 | I sat for what seemed a long time in the cold darkness , breathing shallowly , not moving at all , just waiting , and eventually there was a lightening of the shadows and a luminosity in the wood , and the moon rose clear and bright in the east . |
| 12 | After what seemed a long time , but was in fact only seconds , an almost inaudible whisper issued into the room . |
| 13 | Ruth waited for what seemed a long time . |
| 14 | He took the instrument and listened to Sandy 's heart for what seemed a long time . |
| 15 | Naturally , the finish judges had to be consulted , and after what seemed a prolonged pow-wow , they came up with an answer . |
| 16 | We had to climb what seemed a never-ending staircase to a high platform where we took our seats in a punt at the top of a slide having water rushing down it . |
| 17 | DANCE is making its way back to the Liverpool arts scene following what seemed a fallow period . |
| 18 | Nervously she licked dry lips and , into what seemed a sudden stillness , heard him catch his breath . |
| 19 | He listened in silence for what seemed a longer period than normal , then she heard him speak . |
| 20 | Her splendidly white skin and fine neck were shown off by a square décolletage , messy swathes of lace tied over her bosom by what seemed a white shoe-lace . |
| 21 | To young Clive it was like living near what seemed a dramatic glimpse into the future . |
| 22 | Mehringer was slumped in the rope when his partner , above , saw what seemed a huge sheet of glass cascading down . |
| 23 | Erm you were telling me when we had the preliminary interview about erm what happened a few months prior to the disturbances that occurred in the late Summer . |
| 24 | The question of what constituted a small distribution as compared with the value of the shares was a question of fact and degree for the Special Commissioner . |
| 25 | The police have decided to deploy more than one hundred officers on what called a tidal flow operation , slowly shifting their attention from outside to inside the stadium . |
| 26 | He looked at her for what felt a long time , seemed about to say something more , but in the end let the moment pass . |
| 27 | The pomp , ceremony and popular jubilation accompanying his arrival in Madrid at the end of the war were , naturally , what befitted a conquering hero . |
| 28 | Full of new hope that maybe our rethink might be working he struck into what appeared a solid fish , although this was a little misleading as the cat had picked up a little weed and once freed she quickly surrendered . |
| 29 | They came into full view ; his daughter in the arms of what appeared a working man . |
| 30 | In November the Left SRs , now formally established as a separate party , entered negotiations for the formation of what proved a short-lived coalition with the Bolsheviks . |