Example sentences of "[pron] had [vb pp] what i " in BNC.
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| 1 | I was well satisfied ; I had beaten what I considered to be a bogey track for me , determined not to let either the track or the stadium get the better of me . |
| 2 | I had achieved what I came to Peru to do and , more than I could realise , this was to be the end of something . |
| 3 | I had said what I had to and listened long enough . |
| 4 | At last I had said what I felt ! |
| 5 | The first thing she asked was if I had done what I promised |
| 6 | Afterwards I had no sense that I had been forgiven , but I had done what I was called upon to do and there it must rest . |
| 7 | This was no doubt very wicked of them , but I bear them no animosity at all : I had done what I wanted to do , which was to obtain a glimpse of the Caucasus from the most easternly town of any size in Turkey . |
| 8 | Well , I had done what I could to protect the new catapult and , while I was sorry that what had happened at the Rabbit Grounds had cost me a trusted weapon with many battle honours to its name ( not to mention a significant sum out of the Defence budget ) , I thought that maybe what had happened had been for the best . |
| 9 | I had got what I wanted — his registration number and , in no time at all , the police were all over the place . |
| 10 | I had meant what I said about being ‘ free ’ , and though I see now that young women often use this argument as a retreat from struggle , a kind of laziness , I did not see it then . |
| 11 | I just wish I had practised what I preached ! |
| 12 | Years later , when I met , through Eliot 's sister-in-law , that charming , modest , retiring lady in Brooklyn , I was relieved to find that she had liked what I had written about her . |
| 13 | I know many of you are of the reformed faith and in your minds perhaps rightly so , but if you had seen what I saw then , you 'd still mourn . |