Example sentences of "[adv] what [pers pn] had [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The voters would recognise just what they had thrown away by their mad urge to vote Labour or Liberal Democrat in April 1992 — and this , plus the sight of Mr Gerald Kaufman as Foreign Secretary , would be quite enough to do the trick . |
| 2 | I would n't describe anything that was not what I had gone through and understood myself — in my experience or out of my imagination and other people 's words would n't do . |
| 3 | Serving great forces was not what she had signed up for this trip , but somehow it felt right . |
| 4 | It was clear that this was not what she had come here to talk about . |
| 5 | These tests established exactly what they had done before ; namely that I did indeed have an exceptionally accurate visual memory . |
| 6 | He stood at the bottom of the steps and looked up at her so fiercely that she stopped halfway down and felt quite uneasy , wondering exactly what she had done wrong . |
| 7 | He went through all the drills saying exactly what I had said previously , and did everything right . |
| 8 | He learned the truth about the cuttings , closing his eyes when he thought of her sitting in the attic , her long day done , painstakingly writing for O'Connor the articles whose brilliance and feeling told him of the intellect which lay behind her beautiful face and emphasised again what he had thrown away . |