Example sentences of "what it was [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are plenty of both , more than enough to sustain an indictment of the war , but insufficient for an understanding of what it was all about . |
| 2 | From the way they were digging it was obvious that they had no idea what it was all about . |
| 3 | We 'd try and come up with ideas of what it was all about — sometimes prompted by Bernie , sometimes not . |
| 4 | I did n't really understand what it was all about except that there were always sugar lumps in my pocket for when I did n't feel very well . |
| 5 | Freedom was what it was all about , freedom for as many countries as possible . |
| 6 | All but two of them had been abused and I remember one girl saying to me , ‘ By the time I was nine I knew what it was all about . ’ |
| 7 | I do not know whether poor , dreamy Grandma knew what it was all about , or whether she just gathered , in a vague way , the drift of things . |
| 8 | Fortunately , it was easy to make a decision as Wayne Shelford was already at the club and he gave me an insight into what it was all about and what to expect . ’ |
| 9 | This was n't what it was all about . |
| 10 | Were I to tell that story to my own son and tell him too of the subsequent shame and guilt that haunted me for months and is still so deeply etched in my memory , he would laugh and wonder what it was all about . |
| 11 | No-one knew that Jim was even in trouble and to this day I do n't know what it was all about . |
| 12 | This is what it was all about , to push the Germans back , mile by mile , no matter how long or what dreadful toll it might take , until they were safely confined behind their own boundaries again . |
| 13 | I did n't know what it was all about till I got there and one of them said ‘ You may recognise this , ’ and it was all in the style of Camberwick Green . |
| 14 | He said , ‘ That thing felt good , ’ because feel was what it was all about . |
| 15 | For the most part , parents mistakenly thought their children were not legally entitled to vote , despite having voting cards , or they judged that their children would not understand what it was all about . |
| 16 | So that was what it was all about ! |
| 17 | He had no idea what it was all about , anyway . |
| 18 | But we might be experimental enough to spring people into other ideas , which is what it was all about in the first place . |
| 19 | She guessed what it was all about . |
| 20 | The cover of the directive features a cricketer in full protective kit , so I knew at once I had better find out what it was all about . |
| 21 | Then I started to wonder what it was all about . |
| 22 | Among such part-timers were a few public-school boys playing at being football fans but failing really to understand what it was all about . |
| 23 | I just wanted to see what it was all about . |
| 24 | Later , I found out what it was all about . |
| 25 | If they 've got that piece of paper on top of , they remember what it was all about . |
| 26 | I shall totter like a decaying bastion of English culture , right out of Somerset Maugham , rum-soaked and crumpled from bar to bar trying to remember What It Was All About ! ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Did n't you wonder what it was all about ? ’ |
| 28 | 8 What It Was All About |
| 29 | But obviously they had to find out what it was all about . |
| 30 | ‘ No one who was n't with us in the hills could possibly understand what it was all about and it 's over now . |