Example sentences of "[pron] [be] what he had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In praising the Nun 's Priest , however , he is limited to a motif of sexual worth that inescapably recalls the fabliau : which is what he had imagined of the Monk ( VII : 1945 ) . |
| 2 | Surely it was what he had seen as her present stupidity that had earned her his contempt , since the past was the past , and she was still reluctant to explain anything more than the absolute minimum necessary to put an end to his increasingly unbearable taunts . |
| 3 | It was what he had hoped . |
| 4 | He seemed satisfied , said he was grateful , and it was what he had hoped . ’ |
| 5 | It was what he had wanted to hear . |