Example sentences of "[conj] what [pers pn] had " in BNC.
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| 1 | He asked no questions about Druid 's Bottom , about what they had done , or what they had seen . |
| 2 | Neither Nehru nor Jinnah gained all that they wanted ( or what they had announced as their objectives ) but Aung San and Thakin Nu did obtain all their demands , despite British objections . |
| 3 | The people in his past had been real once but , although that was a very long time ago , he had never been able to forget them or what they had done to his life . |
| 4 | Perhaps , thought Harry , Heather had not told him of her visit to Oxford — or what she had learned there . |
| 5 | Ratings were made by a team of researchers with no knowledge of whether or not the woman was a case , or what she had said about her response to the event . |
| 6 | Elsewhere Jesus avoids such claims , and in the story of the temptation Jesus resisted the idea of using miracles to prove who he was , or what he had come to do . |
| 7 | Or what he had become . |
| 8 | ‘ Did you think , ’ his prosecution pressed him , ‘ that what you were doing , what you were being asked to do or what you had done might be wrong ? ’ |
| 9 | Do n't just count ; tell them how you got to the studio or what you had for breakfast . |
| 10 | What the chicken kiev or what you had ? |
| 11 | I felt that although what we had done in Orange had been severe and shitty , in choosing to go to Calvi and the Airborne regiment , I was letting myself in for treatment and discipline I could n't imagine . |
| 12 | ‘ Thank you , ’ she said , although what he had said made no sense . |
| 13 | His reaction to my essay , on the other hand , brought me up with a jolt ; and although what I had written is of no interest — I seem to have lost the manuscript , so that is the end of the matter — I carne to value his negative appraisals . |
| 14 | They contributed because on the one hand , they were asked and understood that what they had to say was important , and also because too many of them grew up in a world without such books . |
| 15 | However , the lady in question corrected this error , explaining that what they had seen on the X-ray was actually her ‘ pessaire anti-conceptionnel ’ . |
| 16 | There was never any question that the movies would become political or radical as the showmen were as opposed to Socialism and labour unions as their fellow American businessmen and , in any case , they remained firmly of the opinion that what they had to give their public was entertainment . |
| 17 | The book made large , generous claims for life , and for itself : its beguiling charm made people reluctant to point out that what they had read was in fact a factitious marshalling of concerns that did not stand up too well to scrutiny . |
| 18 | I went on my way happy after that — indeed , happier than I had been before I had seen the strange apparitions-and it occurred to me that somebody both less logical and less imaginative would have jumped to the conclusion that what they had seen were UFOs . |
| 19 | ‘ They thought that what we had done was an example of how a test should be made . |
| 20 | He felt the teacher 's rostrum to be his fit place ; the place where he knew that what he had to offer was valued . |
| 21 | As he was a brilliant classical scholar , it is possible that he realized that what he had discovered was in line with one of Hippocrates ' systems , formulated so many centuries before . |
| 22 | Exasperated with all this pussy-footing , and knowing of Mountbatten 's wishes that what he had said should be known , I saw to it that a transcript of the Suez programme reached my friend Bernard Levin at The Times , and he published the core of it in two long articles . |
| 23 | She soon realised that what he had said was true : taste and style were inborn . |
| 24 | When Laura complained at breaktime that Peter had done the same again , pushing her towards the broken tiles which had recently been blown off the junior hall roof , Janice felt that Peter needed to be shown that what he had done was dangerous and unacceptable . |
| 25 | She thought that what he had said was likely to be either partially or totally untrue , but it was not her concern . |
| 26 | And Jerome says that on realizing what he had done , and believing that what he had done was murder , he fled , back here into hiding . |
| 27 | ‘ Good , ’ said the T'ang , seeing that what he had wanted was accomplished . |
| 28 | He returned to the living-room and found that what he had taken to be a cupboard door , in fact gave access by a flight of stairs to the shop . |
| 29 | Five years later , in Watch Out Kids the future It staffer Mick Farren noted that what he had seen there , that night , was more than a new rock ‘ n ’ roll show , it was ‘ the germ of a new way of life ’ . |
| 30 | She remembered Havvie 's last words when he had left her that afternoon , and knew that what he had said was true . |