Example sentences of "[vb infin] [adv] what [pers pn] had [verb] " 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 | There were other words , harsh , angry bitter words , but later Katherine could never remember exactly what she had said , nor could she recall her son 's replies . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ( Or were some people very quiet ? ) 4 Did people listen to what other people were saying ? 5 Did everyone understand clearly what they had to do ? 6 How did the group agree on its answer ? 7 How did everyone feel about the answer that was agreed ? 8 Was it an equal group , or did someone act as a boss ? |
| 5 | Nor could he even remember now what he had said in that burst of spleen . |
| 6 | This worried me because I could not make out what I had done this time to annoy her . |