what it was

On his way out of the factory Mr Whitehorn saw something unusual and asked what it was.

unfortunately , i did not know his address , and of all those i had questioned , no one had been able to tell me what it was.

The whole episode could easily make one think that this sort of thing must have been what it was like in Germany during the 1930's.

For a moment, a nimbus of energy tendrils crackled around Rodimus, as if they were uncertain what it was they were supposed to be doing.

Their reaction is likely to be much eye rolling rather than giving any serious thought to what it was like when you were growing up.

Sokol: NetJets Co-Founder Jim Jacobs said Sokols cost cutting has cost the company customers and left it a ? tiny shadow of what it was.

"But remember, the wish is only for a day, " said the Psammead. "When the sun goes down, everything goes back to what it was. "

So I put myself in a closet, locked the door and had never taken the time to discover what it was that I loved about myself and life.

J. Abrams has confirmed that this is what it was, but we have been unable to find an interview or other source for this claim.

Looking at all my collected data, I noticed that I did not know what it was I was trying to optimize.

Sitting next to him one day, he said, "There's only one thing that I really loved at school. And you know what it was? Shakespeare. "

As you fine tune your memory of what it was that made you feel appreciation, you will find yourself feeling that emotion again.

He talked a mile-a-minute and was well into his sales pitch before I had any idea what it was that he was selling.

What made the citizens happy was that SuZhou River was not what it was like a few years back.

But the thing I found most impressive was the way the film managed to make you feel exactly what it was like to grow up in real poverty.

What it was to become was a mystery until the dust began to slowly combine into a ball moving around the sun.

"You don't want it to be a call for the last one around to turn out the lights, " he said. "That's what it was coming to. "

I can't forget what it was like when Janet and I still lived together-I think I'll take a holiday and try to get out of my system.

He was letting go and trusting what lay ahead for him, even though he did not know exactly what it was.

As the reader sees, the subterranean labyrinth of Paris is to-day more than ten times what it was at the beginning of the century.

Impelled by some sort of fascination, I approached the sepulchre to see what it was and why such a thing stood alone in such a place.

My heart beat fast, my head was dizzy, trying to comprehend what it was that stood in front of me.

And if I'm lucky enough to be read in 50 years' time, I hope people will be able to point to them and say: that's what it was like.

Nobody really understood what it was that he had in mind, except for Ada Lovelace, and he went to his grave trying to pursue that dream.

It was easy to see by the newspapers, that if ever they had known what it was to bear a good name, that time had gone by.

For a moment she did not realize what it was.

And I remembered a quote Michelle had given to a reporter during the campaign, when he'd asked her what it was like being a political wife.

In the past certain time, he made a blunder which he even regret today, but he never told in detail and no one knows what it was.

Can you shade some sunlight and effectively compensate for the added CO2, and produce a climate sort of back to what it was originally?

When Apple launched the iPad less than a year ago, most people did not know what it was for, let alone how many the company would sell.

My guess is that after years of being the trick pony, he wanted to see what it was like to be the ringmaster.

Her answer stayed with me. Wearing a uniform, she said, helped her figure out what it was that really distinguished her as an individual.

"Because I had never seen an elephant before, and wanted to see what it was like, " said the American.

But there was one treatment, which actually had been pioneered at the Hartford hospital in the early 1940s, and you can imagine what it was.

In Gethsemane, Peter and the others had utterly failed. They had no conception of what it was to ask in the name of Jesus, and to receive.

He had liked women in that turgid past of his, and been fascinated by some of them, but he had not known what it was to love them.

I hear the big noise in the air. I looked up and saw the tops of the trees coming and going, "he said. " I did not know what it was.

The pain that I had to go through served as a warning of what it was like to try to live my life without depending on Him.

Tonight Mom came up to my room, and she had a flyer in her hand. As soon as I saw it, I knew EXACTLY what it was.

Well, I cannot imagine what it was like to have such a public breakup.

Beth: I wonder what it was like to work all day in the basement of a huge building sorting mail.

"Life is like that, dear, " she would sometimes say, but she would never say what it was that life was like.

"My sister came round to me last night around 10pm with her husband and gave me the news and I knew immediately what it was, " he said.

Mr. Lin stared at the stairway, bewildered. He felt he had something important to say, but he was too numb to recall what it was.

The firm's leaders decided to try to rebuild KBW into a larger version of what it was before.

you know, the. . . the most decorated Olympian. I had no idea what it was until about a year ago.

She became aware of something about her, with an effort she roused herself to see what it was.

And the share of fathers living apart from children is more than double what it was just a few decades ago, according to a new study.

I felt assured now of what it was, and from the bottom of my heart I pitied this last feeble rill from the great flood of humanity.

And I was struck by going to so many, one after the other, with some clarity of what it was that I was longing for.

He remembers what it was like when the children came a few months ago and counselors encouraged them to draw what they had seen.

I even learned algebra before entering my eighth-grade algebra class when one of my best friends and I were curious as to what it was.

I don't know what it was, but there was something about hearing that person express out loud what I'd been failing to hear myself saying.

The bird flew across the sky overhead too fast for us to see what it was like.

Everyone told me I looked fine, but I knew what it was - petrol oozing to the surface.

And I just stood there and watched it, and what it was doing. And it was just coming down out of the sky real slow, and no noise.

You were a photographer? I wonder what it was you were photographing. Whatever it was, the man attacking you seemed most interested.

but in the evenings, they learned much more of the intellectual discipline, of what it was to be an artist.

They believe it does what it was meant to do, by removing the sort of monster who killed Polly Klaas from the streets and deterring others.

Just AT this moment she felt a very curious sensATion, which puzzled her a good deal until she made out whAT it was.

And they that fed the swine fled, and told it in the city, and in the country. And they went out to see what it was that was done.

I asked him what it was and he told me that it was Medusa, the Gorgon. jasper hopes that she will turn cars and their owners to stone.

I honestly don't know what it was that I saw, other than I know it wasn't a plane or a helicopter, or a blimp.

Andriy Shevchenko knew what it was like here, but when you change clubs it is all starting from scratch.

Materazzi finally came clean last week and revealed to a breathless world just what it was he said that provoked Zidane into attacking him.

If we look closely , we may be able to tell which animal left the tracks and what it was doing by the water .

For a second, I considered hurrying on my way, though I couldn't have said exactly what it was that made me so uneasy.

" just to see what it was like . i mean ? " she half sat up . " can we get inside ? " she ran a finger gently down his peeling cheek.

So, everything that I put into my body I considered as medicine. Every bit of food was exactly what it was for its nutritional value.

Just then Alice had a strange feeling. After a minute or two she understood what it was.

I began to pay close attention to what it was they were complaining about and the reasons behind their getting disappointed or upset.

Say, for myself, that you used to talk a good deal about your duty and to wonder what it was.

Ask them how they found out about you and what it was that brought them your way.

He did not know what it was, where it came from, or where it went.

I do not quite know what it was that caused me to lift my head from the friendly shelter of the blanket.

She knows what it is and what it was: an ideal that grew out of an idea, maybe one waiting for its time to come again.

The author volunteered to come out to have his own problem dealt without knowing what it was.

We have told several people about this, but to really know what it was like you had to be there.

As if they knew what it was like to carry such within you.

I know our family will always be grateful to have known him; from him we learned what it was to accept the bad without complaint.

I ran out of my room to find out what it was. A big tree had fallen down and broken the top of the back room.

Despite having practised on a nearby lake for more than a week, neither was sure where it was or what it was called.

I wanted to see what it was like, so I asked Dimitri to give me a dose. The trip is like a dream.

'If somebody were to mention [Wuling], I would not have known what it was, and I worked for GM, ' he says.

Last Friday I learned what it was like to be part of a civilized, first world health system.

It has returned to an East of Suez policy but with a defence budget less than half what it was in the 1960s.

From three to four, he planned to stand perfectly still and think of what it was like to be alive, and to wait for Fern.

But Saudi spare capacity is not what it was: enough to make up for the loss of Libya, but not the loss of Libya and Algeria combined.

Blair: Oh, god. I forgot what it was like, to be with you.

The national debt stood at $11. 3 trillion, more than double what it was when he took office.

The national debt stood at $11. 3 trillion, more than double what it was when he took office.

It was a week early, but he knew what it was already.

As adults, we all remember what it was like to see kids picked on in the hallways or in the schoolyard.

OPEC has had to accept what it was told from the start but chose not to believe: that non-OPEC co-operation would not be forthcoming.

Maybe it was because we both understood what it was like to be in the spotlight from a very, very young age.

The rivers in that idiom are River Jing and River Wei, which are located in Shaanxi Province. I did not check what it was like nowadays.

So now you're gone And I was wrong I never knew what it was like To be alone. . .

"You know what? It was exhausting. I couldn't believe how tired I am after watching you guys do this all day, " Grace said.

Ministers saw Mr Obama's rhetoric for what it was: the flailing of a politician in a desperate fix.

I could go on, but on almost any count you can think of India's current civilisation is nothing like what it was even 100 years ago.

By the time the rubbery lizard's legs began to appear, Rossi realized what it was.

Oil production in Libya is now half of what it was before Qaddafi came into power in the 1960s.

Suddenly both men realized what it was. Rich threw on the emergency brake and jerked the air horn handle with all his strength.

My classmate ran away, laughing. But I didn't understand what it was all about at all.

And wondered what it was like when you were walking with the animatronic version of the lion.

Can you imagine what it was like trying to capture the storm on film?

They would go to these flagellation brothels to experience what it was to be the one on the bottom, so to speak.

For every individual, the cost of sending and receiving information is a tiny fraction of what it was during the Internet's early days.

And Ahimaaz answered, When Joab sent the king's servant, even me thy servant, I saw a great tumult, but I knew not what it was.

Yet what it was that she must cover up she never knew.

I started writing from Bree's perspective about those final days, and what it was like to be a newborn.

I didn't really care what it was as long as there was some kind of competitive element included.

With the share price a fraction of what it was two years ago, they have more to gain than to lose by a throw of the dice.

After asking some people if they knew the name of it, I found out what it was called.

From what still remains of it one can form a judgment as to what it was in former days.

In the middle of all the worthless junk I found a Chinese snuff bottle and bought it for five dollars: the seller didn't know what it was.

Present Party membership is nine times than what it was at the time of the Seventh Congress.

Some of Jordan's main competitors offer up their memories of what it was like to play against such an unstoppable offensive force.

The world was a vastly different place to what it was two-thirds of a century ago, Mr Rudd said.

It turns out they'd discovered lots of a compound that contains chlorine but, as of last check, they were still unsure what it was.

No writer more vividly captures what it was like to live through the Great Depression of the 1930's than John Steinbeck.

She felt very curious to know what it was all about, and crept a little way out of the wood to listen.

The best possible answer was that some State-owned composer stole the song and nobody else in the government realized what it was.

Then, you can compare a file to what it was a few minutes, hours, or days ago.

Under Putin, the nation was rediscovering what it was to be Russian, Solzhenitsyn thought.

I've just asked him what it was like to be the victim of a coup led by Sacks, Levchin, and Thiel.

Manchester is a shadow of what it was in the 19th century, with its cotton mills and trade links across the world.

But appetite for riskier debt, such as junk bonds and asset-backed securities, remained far from what it was one year ago.

I, at least, knew what it was like to stand on a pod against blue screen because I'd done that in Leavesden [for Episode I].

So a while ago I asked on Twitter and on Facebook what it was that demotivated people.

"I experienced what it was like to be hungry, to be discriminated against and to be treated unfairly, " Stronach has said.

altitude explosions and incoming missiles. The alarming object falling from the sky was recognized for what it was, this time.

No wonder a crowd gathered to see what it was all about (v. 11).

witnessing him make a payoff during one of his scams. that's not what it was.

Fortunately audiences around the world took it for what it was: a humorous drawing.

and coming down, I took what provision I had left and went toward it, the distance being so great, that I could not distinguish what it was.

When recorded disks are played back with a different device from what it was recorded in, the disk must be finalized.

In June the state's unemployment rate hit 10. 1%, more than double what it was a year ago.

Unemployment is double what it was a year ago.

The teacher asked the children to dip their fingers into the containers and guess what it was in each container.

Chris Nelson of Bon Secour Fisheries, a seafood processor and distributor, said the firm's revenue is around half what it was in 1999.

When matter change to a substance different from what it was, the change is a chemical change.

Remembering what it was - what countless systems there swept space like a soft trace of light - I felt the might and strength of God.

We decided to let it continue growing until we could figure out what it was.

But as to exactly what it was that Goldman did so profitably, nobody could be sure.

sitors stood before the new exhibit and thought hard as to what it was trying to show.

They all jumped up and hurried over to see what it was.

This was in Berkeley, 1971. I've asked my parents what it was like to live there then, and they look at me blankly.

Fanny asked what it was that made that odd-looking little man so dismal ?

Something was missing, and I knew what it was. I'd just grown so accustomed to telling myself it wasn't important.

"We whipped up the experiment, and nothing was what it was supposed to be, " Grier says.

This time it was a tentative pull, not solid nor heavy, and he knew exactly what it was.

Despite the signs of improvement, the housing market is still a shell of what it was during headier times.

Turning to see what it was, she saw a tall, handsome blond man standing in the doorway greeting his hoste.

But they had seen movies like Wall Street, and they kind of had learned a little bit about what it was like to be in the real world.

She actually was dripping with sweat because you could tell she worried about what it was doing to the other passengers.

When I was old enough to wonder about such things, I asked Mr. Funderburg what it was that he grew on his farm.

He laughs before delivering his answer: "There was, but unfortunately I can't tell you what it was. "

There was something lost and picked up. Who knows but what it was a ball in the bushes of childhood.

The shopkeepers are complaining that business has been reduced to a fraction of what it was before the war.

To kids, this book is about what it was like to be a kid in the past.

He didn't know what it was that affected him with this peculiar uneasiness .

I could tell what it was worth to Bill just by watching him stroke it, and it had more to do with memories than monetary value.

Pascale exhorted them to look at what it was that Japanese companies were doing better than them, and to learn their lessons.

You never could understand what it was that kept me trucking.

The equivalent Java code would not only be more verbose, but it would be less obvious what it was doing.

As time went by, she almost forgot what it was like to be a human being.

As with other triumphs of the mass market, they've reached a point when people forget what it was like before they existed.

I know now what it was: I was ready to be happy.

I had no idea what it was, but I had the Saturday off so I thought I'd go along.

The dog takes a mental snap shot in his mind of exactly what it was doing when it got the negative makers.

Of course, the perfect pot was proud of its accomplishments, perfect to the end for what it was made to do.

She told us what it was like for her.

I saw what it was; a small plaque affixed to a stone, facing the road.

Now I always remind myself of what it was like being a kid and pulling on a replica strip and playing.

Epictetus If we knew what it was we were doing, it would not be called research, would it?

I never knew what it was like to be alone until you left.

Mr. Marsal says compensation is in line with similar jobs on Wall Street, yet far below what it was at Lehman.

She had said what it was necessary to say.

The U. S. GDP is now about $13. 5 trillion, a bit above what it was in 2007, before the financial crisis.

When I asked him what it was about, he said he couldn't even remember.

What you pursue will be the memory of what it was - and what was is the death of what is.

"A shock wave, " she said. "It was not clear what it was but we were deafened at that moment. The window glass flew. "

If you want to find out what it was for a member of the Greatest Generation, you ask: 'Where were you on D-Day? '

I had heard some story of her too, a critical, unpleasant story, but what it was I had forgotten long ago.

I said I had a surprise for Sue but didn't tell anyone what it was.

She seemed to be waiting for something, but he had no idea what it was.

So ever fewer cases are going to trial: the ratio of federal trials to initial filings in 2009 was a twelfth of what it was in 1962.

The goal is the " attrite" of his military power down to half of what it was before the bombardment.

All three of them realized what it was at once, and leapt backward with a splash.

He wouldn't say what it was, but asked me to come down and meet with director Stephen Sommers.

He knew what it was like to not have control over his own body.

The biggest question in Europe isn't what it was a few weeks ago.

Things were hitting off, until I noticed a tattoo on her neck and asked what it was.

Find what it was like living on board a U-boat, escape procedures from a sunken U-boat and many, many more in the articles section.

He'll often say something and then forget what it was he said.

The energy was phenomenal when this happened and people would ask what it was all about.

She knew what it was to meet with people who were indifferent, to walk alone amid so many who cared absolutely nothing about you.

Because Vivian knew what it was like to be far away from home.

You have no conception of what it was like to be there.

and he had some kind of a thing out there, he was driving around it. . . - Basketballs ? -No, I don't know what it was.

I did not care what it was all about.

I asked him one day, soon after he'd retired to potter about his garden, what it was like a achieve all one's ambitions.

The IMF is doing exactly what it was set up to do, but will likely need more help.

Even so, Dobrez added, "I'm not so sure that they had any clue what it was going to do or whether it was going to work or not. "

I caught on to what it was the guy was saying.

before i met you i never knew what it was like; to look at someone and smile for no reason.

He scanned the pages of the book to see what it was about.

But despite becoming a teacher, he can remember what it was like not to understand lessons.

Perutz used to complain that, although he was famous, few people knew what it was he had achieved.

Dear ma'am, only look at her face at this moment; how different from what it was the two last dances!

By doing these re-enactments we are raising the standing of the mahout back to what it was.

I wanted to know what it was, and I first went to a doctor, who informed me it was a tumorous growth and likely to become serious.

She knew directly what it was she was about to go through.

I lead the way out into the hall, and suddenly I recollect what it was I loved about this night when I was little.

His craft and his love of women was really what it was all about.

It's not good if you walk out of a three hour meeting and can't say what it was about.

After all, he'd looked at my core and seen it for what it was.

SomethIng oily and spiteful appeared In her gaze. It is hard to defIne exactly what it was.

The Olympic Games in 2008 were about sports while Expo was a chance to show the nation's achievements and what it was capable of.

Outside, the voices had an unfamiliar timbre and I realised what it was: girls' voices.

Felt terrible about opening the box. The instant she realised what it was she had done she sought to undo it.

It is ideal for foreign students learning English and for those of use whose grammar is not what it was!

Once we got past the site's terrible name (short for "quantum paper" - huh? ) and focused on what it was offering, we were intrigued.

Shasha's population is about 10, 000, twice what it was in 1994, and its story is, writ small, that of eastern Congo.

New York state's total revenue from racing (from tracks and OTBs) is now barely a quarter of what it was 30 years ago.

But they've said they want a far deeper freeze than Obama's, reducing non-defense discretionary spending to what it was in 2008.

I can't tell you the exact moment I knew what it was I wanted to be or how I wanted to make my mark.

And I think this is a typical picture of what it was like in a courtyard then.

She could not describe what it was. She could not find in a dictionary the definition of something she could not describe.

Each person developing it needed the others to help explain what it was they had achieved.

That was what it was designed to be as a collaborative space where people can interact.

They just 'knew' that they had to search until they found out what it was they were looking for.

I heard of it, but wasn't familiar with what it was or how it fit with money management.

The company woke up a sleepy category, one that took in $10. 75 billion in 2009, double what it was when Wexner started.

The length of the road is four times what it was three years ago.

It computes on what it was doing before and what you said you wanted it to do.

I forgot what it was like to be in high school.

That experience brought home the power of design: I was excited and enthusiastic even before I knew what it was.

I really didn't know what it was that had made him so upset.

She still couldn't explain just what it was about the slender, elfin-featured clones that drew her to them.

Ms. Shi says she recently negotiated a 30% raise when a competitor tried to poach her, and her income is twice what it was four years ago.

There's sound scientific reason to return the solar system to what it was before Pluto the poseur was discovered in 1930.

And other studies of populations at risk sensitized me to the importance of play, but I didn't really understand what it was.

I asked him what it was and he told me to stop asking so many questions and just open it.

King knew it for what it was - a bluff as old as the game itself.

Enthusiasm for the programme is not what it was, even in the cities that were once overrun with astronauts.

Per capita food grain availability has shrunk to what it was three decades ago.

I don't know what it was that did the trick, but I am definitely feeling much better.

Tbilisi city court has an acquittal rate of less than 1%. The prison population is three times what it was in 2003.