The rest of the people at the bus station were looking on going 'What was that?

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What was that at Janine's little girl's funeral, when he wept and continued weeping even after we got to the bar?

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So, err, what was that failure of free trade policy again Ian?

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And that enigmatically labelled dashboard switch that made such a satisfying Swedish click but seemed not to be connected to anything: what was that?

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If there was no insider trading, what was that payment for?

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So what was that sound they wanted people to hear?

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And what was that was said to the worried masses?

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He's coming over here - what was that like?

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What was that about a plan fiduciary again?

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What was that night like for you?

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Wait, what was that other thing?

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Just what was that spectral sound?

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But what was that about power-play?

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What was that piece of advice?

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Yet what was that legacy?

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So what was that impulse?

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President BUSH: What was that?

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What was that experience like?

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What was that trip for?

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What was that groan for?

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What was that statistic again?

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But I think what was important you know, Francis Maude said this, it is not just Michael Portillo but what it was that Michael was saying and fundamentally what he was saying is that we have to really re-think from the ground up what the Conservative Party looks like and what it stands for.

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"It really wasn't the sort of thing you wish to expose your children and grandchildren to in what was something that was supposed to be a pleasant event in the town, " she told BBC Wales.

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For example, Moody's - which has a "negative outlook" on the UK's credit rating - recently said that what mattered was that the UK's "debt metrics" should "stabilise within the next 3-4 years".

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"Our first half was poor but what was important was that we kept our composure, " Jenkins added.

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What caused that was that many of these bonds were in fact being held by leveraged institutions.

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"What was nice was that he was so decisive about ordering a ton of them, " she says.

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"What was undeniable was that it wasn't a passive viewing experience, " Mr. Hurwitz said, referring to the show when it aired on Fox.

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What was outstanding was that these were people from groups that traditionally distrust one another, a fact made all the more striking by the theme of the meeting.

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What was interesting was that I got this piece of news (about the earthquake) yesterday just after I had finished watching the program 'Biblical disasters' on the history channel.

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