Example sentences of "[verb] [pron] [pers pn] had do " in BNC.
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| 1 | This T'ang might doubt what they had done , but not what he was . |
| 2 | Fribble , whose eyes were bright and whose whole bearing was alert , wanted to know what they had to do . |
| 3 | If we were naughty or disobedient the nursemaid would threaten us with this man who , she said , hid at night in the high bushes by the gate , and would know what we had done and come and get us . |
| 4 | I did what I had to do in Dublin — you 'll never know what I had to do to survive . |
| 5 | Mrs Smelley did n't think he should have gone until he had been called up , while Grace was still tending the wounded on the Western Front , so she did n't even know what he had done . |
| 6 | She blamed herself for the way Tina was , though she did not know what she had done wrong , and she blamed herself for not trying harder to keep Tina in her house when she wanted to go off to Jarvis Stringer 's . |
| 7 | After a few days the household would be creeping around ‘ not to disturb Dad ’ who was sulking in his room bored to death with his family , and the children would be trying to comfort a depressed and weeping Mum who had so looked forward to her handsome popular brilliant husband 's return and did n't know what she had done wrong . |
| 8 | Once she 'd met Janice and come to some conclusion , then she would know what she had to do next . |
| 9 | So he appeased them , placated them , told them they had done brilliantly and would all be very rich men in just a few more days . |
| 10 | The line tightening in the water told me they had done so , and I struck before all the bow had been taken out of the line . |
| 11 | Doug Mills , 49 , landlord of The Golden Ball — used as a base for the police operation — said : ‘ Customers told me he had done several tours of Northern Ireland during his service . |
| 12 | He told me he had done a job at Ayr … he said that Ian Waddell was with him . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ The sergeant told me he had done all that was required and then got stroppy . |
| 14 | We 've done everything we had to do , really , and we can just sit back and watch it all now . ’ |
| 15 | Sentencing Constable Peter Anderson , 41 , Mr Justice Jowitt told him he had done ‘ great damage to the trust in police ’ . |
| 16 | I told her she had to do a we have n't been there . |
| 17 | As soon as Mach had revealed what he had done , DeVore had pressed the tiny panel at his wrist , opening the channel that switched everything he was saying direct into the heads of his three surviving agents . |
| 18 | Alice thought it would be easier to phone someone like that than her own mother if you had done what she had done , but she could be wrong there . |
| 19 | Here , if he did n't return , Primaflora would receive his letter , and his parcel , and would understand why he had done what he had done . |
| 20 | He had done what he had to do . |
| 21 | Umpire Bird called Waqar for a second over-shoulder-high bouncer to Smith in his next over , and signalled what he had done with laudable clarity . |
| 22 | Eva was too busy concentrating on the first foothold to wonder what she had done with it . |
| 23 | He would do what he had to do and escape . |
| 24 | Over lunch we decided that we could repeat what we had done at Muirfield Village and take all Four fourballs and five hours later it was done . |
| 25 | He had seen what they had done to Patrick and he knew the man was lying . |
| 26 | I did n't recommend it because I had seen what it had done to sensitive artists like Scott Walker . |
| 27 | And I do n't know which has nagged at me most , the lack of courage shown by this brave man in fending me off and declining to discuss what he had done , or my lack of courage in declining to write about it . |
| 28 | He could n't remember what he had done with his bike when he got to the Fletchers ' , left it there and collected it next day perhaps , but he could remember most of the rest of it . |
| 29 | Look what they had to do ! |
| 30 | Mum , look what I had to do . |