Example sentences of "what [vb past] it [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was longing to get back to it , or perhaps its associations with Toby were what lent it this sudden magnetism . " |
| 2 | ( It was also , of course , disgusting and deplorable : that 's what made it such a success . ) |
| 3 | None of the villagers would go near the pool , which was what made it such a suitable place for a rendezvous . |
| 4 | What made it worse , was that the police had the time of the tram-cars and the time it took to get to a certain stop . |
| 5 | What made it worse was that he had a terrible cold at the time . |
| 6 | What made it worse was that Prince Charles seemed less concerned about her predicament than that of his friend Camilla Parker-Bowles . |
| 7 | What made it worse was that his face remained so still , as expressionless as it had been earlier when discussing trivia with the Doctor . |
| 8 | What made it worse was his coldness . |
| 9 | What made it worse was that the infection was traced to some undercooked meat she 'd eaten in England . |
| 10 | That was bad enough but what made it worse was that I had n't the faintest idea what was wrong with them . |
| 11 | What made it worse was that in order to explain the frustrations that I had experienced I found myself making stereotyping judgments about Africans as lazy — not even caring to look after themselves — and as unreliable . |
| 12 | What made it worse was I heard people saying what a very good side Spartak were . |
| 13 | The one person each loved , for Celie it was her sister , Nettie and for Phyllisia , it was Edith , their oppressors had driven away and as Phyllisia said what made it worse was that , ‘ I let you . ’ |
| 14 | In a taped interview with Jill Jones , Head of Science in a comprehensive , which I shall quote from several times , I asked her , after she had been talking for a while about the frustrations , what made it all worthwhile . |
| 15 | ‘ I soon learnt what made it all happen … what got you in the mood , eh Bella ? |
| 16 | What made it all so difficult was that , though practically no one had had a good word to say for Hereward , no one could or would pin down that dislike into a form which could prime a hatred violent enough to kill him . |
| 17 | This was not snoring but a kind of clicking , irregular and sporadic — that was what made it irritating — and liable to start when least expected . |
| 18 | This was my father 's first visit to her since the war ; what made it possible was the free travel concession he now had , working for British Railways as a painter and decorator . |
| 19 | We 're gon na come around the Lord 's table now and celebrate what made it possible for us , and we 're gon na sing that little song , it 's in the front of your erm Songs of Fellowship , it 's number five . |
| 20 | What made it fun on the night was the fact that we knew what we were doing . |
| 21 | However , what made it special were the theme rooms . |
| 22 | What made it ten times worse , you see , was that Lavinia had strongly resisted Isabel 's coming in the first place . |
| 23 | Those who were " Not sure " were asked what made it difficult to decide . |
| 24 | What made it exceptional was that , in place of the single horn , a gold arrow pointed into the sky . |
| 25 | I think that 's what started it all off I think she 's running off . |
| 26 | What did it all mean ? |
| 27 | What did it all mean ? |
| 28 | Anyway , what had it all amounted to ? scorned Alice , triumphantly examining that too-pale , anxious , strained face , with beads of sweat on the forehead : printing fucking garbage for this or that bloody faction in the fascist bloody Labour Party , printing dish-water newspapers for bloody liberals and revisionists , sucking up to shitty politicians on the make and bourgeois trash anyway doomed to be swept into the dustbins of history ? |
| 29 | What had it all been about , then ? |