Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] what [pers pn] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he died , when they found out what he had done , he would be lucky to be buried at all . |
| 2 | But he wondered if Jessamy would ever forgive him when she found out what he had done in order to try and achieve it . |
| 3 | He grinned down at her and it was only then that she realised just what she had said . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Mr Daniels , from Newton Abbot , Devon , who had been making poems up in his head , was helped by a voice synthesiser which ‘ spoke ’ each letter typed , and read back what he had written . |
| 6 | These tests established exactly what they had done before ; namely that I did indeed have an exceptionally accurate visual memory . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But neighbours sent down what they had to spare . |
| 9 | Unless your doctor were to go to the additional trouble of writing on the prescription that he meant exactly what he had written , and was forbidding the chemist to substitute , you would get the cheapest product . |
| 10 | She knew just what she had to do , knew the music perfectly , could sing it in her sleep , but now she felt , for the first time in years , she could bring something of herself , her personality , into her singing . |
| 11 | The issue of censorship arose again in connection with a license to print , which he was fortunate to obtain since he knew exactly what he had done . |
| 12 | He knew exactly what he had to do . |
| 13 | And now , to set the seal on this disastrous year , the member of parliament for Frizingley , old Charlie Bowen , who had been John-William 's man and Ben Braithwaite 's man and knew exactly what he had to do to earn the money they paid him , had fallen off his horse — the damned fool — and broken his neck . |
| 14 | He knew now what he had to do . |
| 15 | I did just what I had to do , and never realised that it was my best . |
| 16 | Nicandra felt her way deeper under the bedclothes — she put aside what she had seen , that look , deeper than a kiss . |
| 17 | Nevertheless , as clearly as he could , he wrote down what he had observed — that a large French force of infantry , cavalry and artillery was marching north out of Charleroi on the Brussels road . |
| 18 | It seems that there was some activity in the fells for in an " accompt " dated 10 August 1691 Roger Fleming wrote down what he had paid John BlackwaIl and others as partners ; himself having a sixth part of " ye mynes in Coniston Ffells … |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He stuttered out what he had to say . |
| 22 | As they ran on together across the flat open plateau , Yanto explained breathlessly what he had done . |