Example sentences of "[adv] [Wh det] [pers pn] had [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when the great gentleman detective got hold of the village postman and subjected him to an interrogation which ranged from what he had eaten for breakfast to whether or not he possessed a wireless set and if so what he had listened to on the previous morning , Sergeant Bramble maintained a stoic countenance . |
| 2 | He was diffident , seemingly vague , declaring a lack of knowledge and ignorance of education and of teaching , and that he knew only what he had learned through his own work as a painter . |
| 3 | The first week-end , and I were frantically busy preparing for our first meetings with the students , and also unpacking and setting out all the books , tapes , etc. which we had got via the Embassy and the British Council . |
| 4 | And those six little gutter-weasels and their heftier accomplice who had pushed her over would never realize , when they sold Miss Gemma Dallam 's valuable satin for a shilling or two , just what they had done to her . |
| 5 | Although just what she had done with all her unencumbered time since he 'd moved the rest of them to Almsmead , other than take an excessive interest in the mill-school he 'd had to build to keep on the right side of that damned , interfering Factory Act , he was uncertain . |
| 6 | This was not what he had wanted at all . |
| 7 | Getting her jeans off in two seconds flat in a stable was not what he had visualized for her . |
| 8 | That was not what she had inferred from Amy 's vehement if disjointed revelations . |
| 9 | But it was not what she had come to him to do . |
| 10 | In Love again , the new beloved was perfect and miraculous ; Jay swept away what she had learned in pain about feet of clay and natural caution . |
| 11 | As one of the leaders commented , this day 's trek was exactly what we had come to the jungle for . |
| 12 | It seemed very important just then to remember exactly what she had felt for Anthony at the beginning . |
| 13 | His sermon on the primacy of Peter ( which mirrored exactly what he had said on the subject in a tract written before he became pope , " De primatu Romani pontificis " ) explored the authority by which the pope governed , the Petrine commission . |
| 14 | As before , a guard accompanied me to the barracks ; but this time , on the way back , we met two officers : it was exactly what I had hoped for . |
| 15 | Indeed , I recalled the Government 's commitment to ‘ work towards ’ the quality that we were studying , and could not understand exactly what I had envisaged by the notion of working towards the condition of being alive rather than dead . |
| 16 | But he wondered if Jessamy would ever forgive him when she found out what he had done in order to try and achieve it . |
| 17 | Art had always tried to give back what he had gained in life , he felt grateful for what he felt he had to be given , some said he 'd achieved a great deal , but in his heart he felt fate had dealt him with him gently and you have to make the most of the lo of the card life deals you . |
| 18 | ‘ Pettigrew and I are going for a stroll , ’ said Mark , who had been finding the atmosphere of the tea room rather oppressive and not really what he had come to Rome for . |
| 19 | Nor could he even remember now what he had said in that burst of spleen . |
| 20 | I started to dig in one corner of it , and I dug for six months , winter months , erm and erm managed a shallow pool which erm was n't what I had envisaged at all , but erm two snipe lived there and liked it . |
| 21 | They 'd tell of a tragedy on the cliffs , a death that was n't what it had seemed to be . |
| 22 | The Major began to feel that Onyx Muggeridge was not quite what he had come to a Parents ' Evening for , and was quite grateful when the headmaster disengaged himself with palpable reluctance from the Fromes and sailed in his direction , exuding Manner . |
| 23 | And that is precisely what we had done in Madrid . |
| 24 | What she had now was twice what she had suffered before this — a love so very agonising , a love without hope because someone else had the right and the claim to him now and that was why he had kissed her that way — to let her know how hopeless it all was . |