Example sentences of "[vb past] what he [verb] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In June , Roland found what he had been looking for . |
| 2 | It was in the second of the rooms behind a damp stack of spare mattresses that he found what he 'd been hoping for . |
| 3 | The Raubvogel had just entered the short tunnel that led out of the cavern , when Katze finally found what he 'd been looking for . |
| 4 | She guessed what he had been thinking and jumped in with a diverting remark . |
| 5 | ‘ We could just not believe it when we heard what he had been fined . |
| 6 | In his paper , Beveridge repeated what he had been saying for some time , namely , that there was no general breakdown of the labour-market , instead there was an overstocking of individual trades which was due to ‘ inadequate labour information and local hindrances to labour mobility ’ . |
| 7 | He looked at his eyes and his ears and his teeth and his droppings and the ends of his claws and he inquired what he had been eating . |
| 8 | At last she knew what he 'd been keeping from her . |
| 9 | Now Zen knew what he had been thinking . |
| 10 | But his head cleared as the pain receded and he remembered what he had been going to ask Curtis . |
| 11 | He did what he thought was required of him . |
| 12 | In her disappointment Chesarynth missed what he had been saying . |
| 13 | In Shell UK v Lostock Garage Ltd [ 1976 ] 1 WLR 1187 Lord Denning MR explained what he thought was meant by the proposition that reasonableness is to be considered at the time when the contract is made : If the terms impose a restraint which is unreasonable in the sense that it may work unfairly in circumstances which may reasonably be anticipated , the courts will refuse to enforce the restraint : but it will not hold it to be unenforceable simply because it might work unfairly in certain exceptional circumstances outside the reasonable expectation of the parties at the time of making the agreement . |