Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] what [pers pn] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first lecture was due to start in half an hour — time enough for what she had to do . |
| 2 | Vi wished she could fire a gun and shoot down those bombers if only for what they had done to Gerry , but it was easy to be brave in this small , precious house when the sun still shone in the evening sky and a west wind blew away the stench of bombing and burning and broken bodies . |
| 3 | People never bragged about their beginnings , only about what they had achieved , and never admitted it was through someone else 's sweat . |
| 4 | The three children had gone to bed and Rose was waiting by the fire by the time he was satisfied enough with what he had written to seal the envelope . |
| 5 | but not necessarily within what we had to do today so . |
| 6 | I think that part of her story was true … looking down at what she had done , seeing the bare legs and the blood … ’ |
| 7 | Although intended to demonstrate to all the world what the Industrial Revolution had achieved in England , the Exhibition seemed to the discriminating evidence rather of what it had destroyed . |
| 8 | Worse , Dr Neil was being so kind , when reason told her that no one would blame him if he turned her away for what she had done . |
| 9 | Rage at her daughter , not just for what she had done but for all the unhappiness she had caused her grandmother . |
| 10 | On walking back home from the church , I found myself thinking very deeply about what I had let myself in for , but foremost what my wife would say , I seem to recall something like ‘ I suppose that 's my lace bobbins even further down the work sheet . ’ |
| 11 | He did n't rise to it ; simply carried on with what he had to say . |
| 12 | I thought carefully about what he had said . |
| 13 | ‘ They had a wonderful pioneering style and pride both in what they had achieved and in what they could teach you . |
| 14 | He was n't er able to be so positive as that , but he did certainly give us the impression that er that he 'd listened very carefully to what we had to say . |
| 15 | By giving me a little he was showing both concern for me and his determination that I should pay materially for what I had done to him . |
| 16 | In other words , branches agreed to retain less than before of what they had collected from students , and if necessary raise extra funds through special events . |
| 17 | And how dared the man standing between herself and the light so that she could not see him clearly speak so harshly of what she had done ? |
| 18 | She looked back over what she had written : the words were empty , devoid of all vitality . |
| 19 | In transport , then , Margaret Thatcher 's first Government extended privatization far beyond what we had thought possible in Opposition , but there was no doubt what was the jewel in the crown . |
| 20 | The secret language , the underground stream that forced through her like a river , that rose and danced inside her like the pulling jet of a fountain , that wetted her face and hands like fine spray , that joined her back to what she had lost , to something she had once intimately known , that she could hardly believe would always be there as it was now , which waited for her and called her by her name . |
| 21 | Wishart thought back to what he had heard about that fateful night at the banquet . |
| 22 | The Edwardian and Progressive eras were rife with ideas of how film could develop but of all the possibilities the only thing that happened was that the showmen hung on to what they had discovered . |
| 23 | Which is just as well considering what she had to put up with from the fans . |
| 24 | Realising that I was piqued by the recognition that I was not singular even in what I had considered an inadequacy , I convicted myself of lack of humility . |
| 25 | Roy looked much more solid — the kind of man who would sit silently through what she had to say , listen to Purdy 's probing , then corner her with a single , well-informed comment . |
| 26 | Aware abruptly of what he had done , he held very still , not shifting a finger , above all not that index finger , as he opened his eyes , and looked where it pointed . |
| 27 | Apart from what we had sown and grown ourselves , there was the bounty of the fields and hedgerows . |
| 28 | I knew nothing at all about England , apart from what I had gathered from reading a number of the works of P.G . |
| 29 | I listened closely to what he had to say , but I then pressed him to name the best-known avant-garde artists for me . |
| 30 | Feeding angrily and briefly on what it had taken . |