Example sentences of "[noun] what [pron] had [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ruth took a deep breath and summoned all her courage to put into words what she had decided after her sleepless night at Mrs Taylor 's . |
| 2 | It was now dusk but the old librarian had the sconce torches lit and gave Corbett what he had requested , a candle and a battered copy of the ‘ Sic et Non ’ , the brilliant satire on scholastic theology by the Parisian scholar , Abelard , who had lost his family as well as his testicles for ridiculing the theologians and then compounding his sin by falling in love with a woman . |
| 3 | Though Musgrave did not bring himself to ask the soldier what he had seen , his impression was ‘ that Aimable had not been fattened up to the mark of the visitor 's large expectations ’ . |
| 4 | It was her habit after the lecture on the theory of economics , which she found particularly intractable as a subject , to take her notes ( she was a sparse but efficient notetaker ) to a quiet table by the window , drink some coffee and study what she had written down . |
| 5 | She had replayed in her mind what she had overheard , over and over again , and each time she tried to ignore his words at the end . |
| 6 | Naturally , Mother began to put into practice what she had learned at Helmsley . |
| 7 | While he and Blanche hummed up in the lift to the conference room , Dexter told the superintendent what he had found out at the dry cleaner 's . |
| 8 | I decided not to tell my parents what I had discovered : I would just confirm that we were in Tabiano . |
| 9 | Rachaela tried to give Ruth what she had had with Emma , things she liked or which would be good for her : sausages and chips , chicken and broccoli , real carrots , grilled fish with cheese and baked beans . |
| 10 | He asked me in German what I had come for but I said ; untruthfully , ‘ Nicht verstehen . ’ |
| 11 | She wondered if she should confess to Connor what she had tried — and failed — to do , but when he came into the bedroom at last , she felt at once that this was not the right moment . |
| 12 | For the rest of the night , I could see him pointing at me and telling all the other guests what I had said to him . |
| 13 | Van der post reminded Charles that to slow down , even for a while , would be to give the terrorists what they had wanted . |
| 14 | Outside in the gallery Benjamin told the rest of the group what we had found . |
| 15 | Her voice squeaking with embarrassment , she told her friend what she had overheard her mother telling Louise . |
| 16 | Stretching her brown , barefooted legs out in front of her and exposing half of her thighs , Melody gave Seb what he had come to think of as one of her ‘ looks ’ . |
| 17 | What the blustering and bullying of Henry VIII had failed to do in the 1540s , the gentler approach of Henri II had now achieved triumphantly ; the Scots had given the French king what they had refused to the English one , control of their queen and , it seemed , control of their country . |
| 18 | The policeman told the magistrate what he had heard , and how he had searched Oliver afterwards and found nothing . |
| 19 | Too frightened to tell the other servants what she had seen and heard , the girl went to bed and cried herself to sleep . |
| 20 | But when he told his aunt what he had seen , she grinned all over her broad features . |
| 21 | Its small herd included two sturdy calves , and he ducked down excitedly to report to his father what he had seen . |
| 22 | If she returned to the Hall and told her father what she had endured she would be forbidden to return — that was what must happen . |
| 23 | And if she tried to tell her father what she had experienced in the Lodge , what then ? |
| 24 | He never said he was teaching , or asked Gabriel what he had learned at the end . |
| 25 | She was going back to her father 's house to show people what she had written in her schoolbooks about them . |
| 26 | I 'd teach young people what I had learnt . |
| 27 | The canal took 18 years to complete , twice as long as Telford had forecast , and cost more than double what he had estimated , but it was an outstanding engineering achievement for the time , even though the actual length of genuine canal that had to be dug was only 21 miles , since the navigable channel took advantage of existing lochs along the glen . |
| 28 | Gabriel went back and told God what he had done for the three brothers . |
| 29 | Some British colleagues thought it was overweight and underpowered , so after trying a right-hand drive 1.8GL version recently , I looked up with some trepidation what I had said about the car on my voting form six months ago . |
| 30 | If this resembled ( as seems likely ) in the closing years of Coleman 's life what it had become in 1846 , when an anonymous member of the Royal College visited it , the word theatre was a grandiloquent description of an ignoble room . |