Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] what [pron] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Long into the night he sobbed , weeping for what he had lost , and for what he had become . |
| 2 | Things were going so well that she did n't want anyone else interfering with what she had worked so hard for . |
| 3 | Whilst Edward of England sat fuming over what he had learnt , Sir Amaury de Craon was nursing his bruised wrist and shouting orders to his retinue for a swift return to Oxfordshire . |
| 4 | The undergraduates of Magdalene used to say about their Master that he spent the morning doing nothing and spent the afternoon writing about what he had done in the morning . |
| 5 | As the ducks were squawking about what they had seen , three tiny shrews scampered from the undergrowth . |
| 6 | All three were initiated at the 1990 Frankfurt Bookfair Seminars where Asian participants pledged themselves to passing on what they had learnt to their colleagues . |
| 7 | Everyone I have spoken to about him — without exception — brought up his reading , the breadth of it , the compulsion , and the evangelical enjoyment he took in passing on what he had read the night before . |
| 8 | It was known on what path he would be returning — or at least , according to what he had led us all to believe . |
| 9 | By purporting to de-interpret them by removing the excrescences of later interpretations it made possible a reinterpretation which allowed mythology to be seen again as something that while still existing on the level of the most civilized and polished communication kept speaking of what it had sprung from — men 's basic needs and desires . |
| 10 | He was sitting there , half dozing over what he had written , when there was a loud knocking on the door . |
| 11 | But Keith was already pushing her into the living-room , bubbling with what he had to say . |
| 12 | Corbett groaned and went up to his chamber , throwing himself down on the small cot and reflecting on what he had learnt . |
| 13 | Watching her , Trent recalled sailing towards what he had expected to be his death the previous morning on Golden Girl … his sense of deprivation , of having been robbed of his right to a normal life . |
| 14 | He had never forgiven her for intruding in what he had seen as his family , his responsibility , the only inheritance his father had left him . |
| 15 | Zen sat there , thinking over what she had told him . |
| 16 | She ducked her head in miserable assent , then , because his agreeing with what she had said hurt her in spite of everything , she added rashly , ‘ You ought to be with a woman like Marise . ’ |
| 17 | When they had completed their task , they went back over the language of their exchange , noting the semantic field of the vocabulary , listing alternative lexis and structure which was synonymous in meaning with what they had used . |