Example sentences of "what was [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are not even about the accessibility of services , and they are certainly not about the development of economic and social policies — something that is so often ignored in the scramble to fragment and disintegrate what was built up over the last century by local government people of all political persuasions . |
| 2 | What was planned along with colleagues at King 's College , University of Durham , was a comprehensive Flora of the Inner and Outer Hebrides . |
| 3 | I poured 70 per cent of it into a glass representing the wages paid to those of us who work in the business , 20 per cent into a glass representing what was ploughed back by way of reinvestment in plant and machinery , 5 per cent into a glass representing dividends and 5 per cent into a glass representing tax . |
| 4 | When Macaulay holes up in his uncle 's deserted house , he treats Pesci and Stern to a cartoon-like sadistic onslaught which goes way beyond what was served up in Home Alone 1 . |
| 5 | So erm they used to put some meat by for her to er on the cheap sort of thing what was left over on a Saturday then my mother 'd get lots of meat and that you know cheap . |
| 6 | Then , finally , came supper , which was really what was left over from lunch : cold meat , salad and cheese , and more wine . |
| 7 | Quite glad to abandon what was turning out to be a very wet hunt , she walked with the little girl back to the hotel . |
| 8 | Many police officers were angry that the cases had been brought at all , since the methods employed by the defendant constables were said to have involved no more than what was set out in the Home Office-approved Tactical Options Manual . |
| 9 | the discrepancy between what was set out in his syllabus and what was actually happening in the classrooms , particularly with regard to three dimensional work ; |
| 10 | This time he had shifted his ground ; not a word about the criticisms of Hailsham and Macmillan which we had agreed to delete , nor about untoward consequences in the Arab world : this time it was ‘ breach of confidential relationships ’ contrary to what was laid down in the Report of the Privy Council on Ministerial Memoirs . |
| 11 | Frankie 's eyes nearly popped out of his head when he clapped eyes on the room and its contents , especially what was laid out on the table . |
| 12 | It was just Beethoven 's sense of what was going on outside triumphing over our own . |
| 13 | I lost track of what was going on outside the alley until the officer tapped her shoulder with his revolver and waved it in my face . |
| 14 | Some of the wealthier natives brought picnic hampers in the European manner , and their servants would unroll splendid carpets on the green sward ; while their banquets were spread out on the carpets they could watch what was going on through telescopes and opera-glasses which they had had the foresight to bring with them though what they saw , as they swept the ramparts of the Residency and banqueting hall can hardly have looked very impressive to them : just a few ragged , boil-covered skeletons crouching behind mud walls . |
| 15 | More importantly , it reflects his laconic style , and what was going on under the surface : |
| 16 | How could she not have noticed what was going on under her nose ? |
| 17 | Therefore I did n't know what was going on to the point where I carried on working in a prefabricated hut hard by the administration block during a very successful students ' occupation in summer 1976 . |
| 18 | What we do know , however , is that in the light of the conflicts of policy surrounding both repatriations that Eighth Army was now fully aware of , the Army Commander Gen McCreery had already decided to fly up to Austria to take a look at what was going on for himself . |
| 19 | Gateshead Family Health Service 's Authority admitted it had known what was going on for more than a year , but action was taken only after a patient contacted them . |
| 20 | She 's actually a really nice woman and she took a lot of time to really explain to me what was going on with her at that time . |
| 21 | Tell me , did the great galactic public ever find out what was going on on Checkley 's World ? ’ |
| 22 | He 'd been hearing things , Denis had said , and he wanted to know what was going on at Rafferty 's . |
| 23 | ‘ They also expressed a lack of knowledge about what was going on at the time , and they blamed their mothers for that . |
| 24 | It was a nagging frustration for Mary to go up to the Ryans and not be able to talk about what was going on at Riverstown . |
| 25 | His natural caution kept him on the political sidelines , although he was well placed to know what was going on at the highest level , as the ‘ Historia Roffensis ’ , written by a clerk in his entourage , demonstrates . |
| 26 | Knowing Hurley , Coleman was pretty sure that the DIA now had a better grasp of what was going on at DEA Nicosia than the DEA itself . |
| 27 | Did nobody have any idea what was going on at the time ? |
| 28 | Aye well that 's it er I mean there was no , as I said there was no alarms for anybody else or anybody who was n't there really would n't have a much of an idea to how drastic it was and what was going on at the time . |
| 29 | Will he say that he knew what was going on at Luigi 's ? |
| 30 | He could have said , ’ Yes , I knew what was going on at Luigi 's restaurant . ’ |