Example sentences of "[vb past] [verb] [Wh adv] [pers pn] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She sought to discover where he had obtained the information he was supposed to have passed on to a Sunday newspaper . |
| 2 | Rincewind tried to remember where he had seen it before . |
| 3 | There was a pause while Ryan tried to remember where he had got to . |
| 4 | I looked up , startled to find how I had forgotten everything but the antics of these two monstrous beings . |
| 5 | From outside , the church looked very old , and deserted , and I began to wonder why I had come ; and I must have been a little late , because in the perfect stillness within , the members of the congregation already knelt — like statues , some caught in a swath of rainbow light where the rising sun shone through a stained-glass window , splashing the bowed heads and bent shoulders with crimson , royal blue , emerald and gold . |
| 6 | This afternoon Colin French declined to explain why he had chosen to exploit this loophole . |
| 7 | Dust was beginning to deposit itself over his furniture , while the kitchen floor needed scrubbing where he had dropped an egg on it . |
| 8 | She loved to hear how she had pointed to them and said , ‘ Moo ! ’ and we had said , ‘ No , darling . |
| 9 | It was only after she had gone that I started to ponder why she had confided so much in me . |
| 10 | All the way up on the ferry from Vienna , Earth , Jezrael kept remembering how he had treated her at the briefing . |
| 11 | He kept wondering how it had got Silk . |
| 12 | Carla lay sobbing where she had landed , holding her poor injured head in both hands . |
| 13 | She was not very steady on her feet and she kept thinking how she had resolved not to do this , but her thought processes were blurred and hazy . |
| 14 | Perhaps she had a poor memory and kept forgetting where she had left them . |
| 15 | And now , sitting legs stretched , on a chair too low comfortably to accommodate his six feet two inches , eyes fixed on that single taper , unflickering in the incense-heavy stillness , he could hear again the tone , taut with self-disgust , in which Berowne had explained why he had given up the law : |
| 16 | In a statement to police Mr Burn had explained how he had tried to calm Mr Pollard down . |
| 17 | They had heard how I had prevented the King from destroying all their ships . |
| 18 | She had forgotten why she had come down to the garden in the first place . |
| 19 | Maxim had noticed how she had adopted certain American phrases and mannerisms as well , not because she was trying to pass as an American , but just to blend into the background . |
| 20 | But he could not bring himself to do it , especially not now , after Simon had revealed how she had spoken up for him . |
| 21 | I had remembered where I had heard that name before . |
| 22 | Telephone call took twenty minutes and had to explain how I had arrived at such a decision . |
| 23 | All day long she had wondered how he had managed to bamboozle his way into a consultancy , but first the calm , unflappable way he had dealt with Steve and now here , with the devastated relatives , Kathleen had an opportunity to see at first hand the qualities that set him apart as a consultant . |
| 24 | He refused to say where he had sold the items he had taken from the house . |
| 25 | He sat crouching where he had fallen , his head resting on his knees , his hands over his eyes . |