Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] what [pron] had [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We talked about the moths for a bit , and then someone asked what she had done with the mask . |
| 2 | I knew they were discussing me in private , but I was seriously alarmed when I discovered what they had decided . |
| 3 | I repeated what I had seen him do . |
| 4 | And , at that time I realized what my friend had gone through , and I knew what I had gone through , and I would willingly have gone on having babies for erm out of compassion for people who could n't have children and I would have done it much more naturally ! |
| 5 | We settled down with a new bottle of champagne on the table before us , and I summarised what I had discovered about Brian Harley 's contract with Supersight and what I had not discovered about his putter . |
| 6 | I summarised what I had learned from Froggy 's sister , and the many questions in my mind . |
| 7 | I understood what I had seen in the dream when I learned the words " gaberdine " and " mahogany " ; and I was born in the year of the New Look , understood by 1951 and the birth of my sister , that dresses needing twenty yards for a skirt were items as expensive as children — more expensive really , because after 1948 babies came relatively cheap , on tides of free milk and orange juice , but good cloth in any quantity was hard to find for a very long time . |
| 8 | And then I remembered what she had said . |
| 9 | I glimpsed what she had written — nothing extraordinary except that she hoped she would soon find deliverance from her troubles . |
| 10 | ‘ Secondly , when I simulated what she had done , I found the window was rather narrow . |
| 11 | Immediately I regretted what I had said . |
| 12 | I hoped what I had written was okay . |
| 13 | Someone has plotted to kill you ! ’ and I explained what I had heard and how I had put out the fire . |
| 14 | I wondered what I had done wrong . |
| 15 | Now I had graduated to the Birmingham-rug and Dufy-print circuit , but I wondered what I had sacrificed to do it . |
| 16 | Nobody but himself knew what it had cost him to start riding with Nutty as a teacher , and to get to his present standard on the crazy little mare when he had been terrified out of his wits at the things she did . |
| 17 | Then , belatedly , she realised what he had said : the whole of what he had said . |
| 18 | ‘ None , ’ before she realised what he had said . |
| 19 | When she realised what she had said she blushed . |
| 20 | Then she realized what she had said and put a hand over her mouth in consternation . |
| 21 | Her heart sank as she realized what she had laid herself open to . |
| 22 | The two policemen took statements from the servants about the last known moments of the occupants of the manor , and from Seb , Tom and Carrie , who described what they had seen as they approached the manor house the previous night . |
| 23 | The notion that the Jews were philosophers recurs in a book about India by Megasthenes who was an ambassador to that country on behalf of Seleucus I in about 293 and who reported what he had seen . |
| 24 | To the right of the back door , she found what she had hoped for , a Victorian window with a pane broken in the top light , leaving the catch within easy reach of someone of Theodora 's height . |
| 25 | She believed what she had said and yet those last words had a curious prophetic ring — as if somewhere in those uncharted seas which man calls Time , they were echoing and re-echoing into the future . |
| 26 | She confirmed what you had told me about Edouard being beaten up and said she was afraid it was all because of her . |
| 27 | She repeated what she had said , only louder . |
| 28 | She repeated what he had heard already from the lips of Evans . |
| 29 | After a while she examined what I had done . |
| 30 | When this practice was questioned , the auxiliary protested that all the patients had their own bowls so she knew what they had eaten but that using one spoon was quicker , as she could feed more people at once . |