Example sentences of "[verb] what he had [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A blow on behalf of the ordinary universe ’ Golding once called his own fiction in a BBC interview , explaining what he had thought himself to be about when he wrote Pincher Martin . |
| 2 | She could see that he was searching for the right words , the very thing that would describe what he had felt , what he had experienced at that moment . |
| 3 | Corbett leaned forward and described what he had seen . |
| 4 | His mother says that he talked to her about it and she tried to convince him that he was misinterpreting what he had seen and heard , but as far as I can learn John never mentioned it to anyone else until late in life , when telling Dr Schäfer about the thoughts which led him to make his ballet Spuren . |
| 5 | Peter had begun to study it on Sunday , chiefly to discover what he had had to say about Abbotsfield . |
| 6 | The notion that the Jews were philosophers recurs in a book about India by Megasthenes who was an ambassador to that country on behalf of Seleucus I in about 293 and who reported what he had seen . |
| 7 | In the CI5 computer room , Bodie reported what he had found out about the girl to Cowley . |
| 8 | His job now was to let the allied headquarters know what he had seen : that the French had crossed the frontier and that the campaign had therefore begun . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | We do n't know what he had thought about it before this moment when Jesus spoke directly ‘ Follow me ’ . |
| 11 | With his gloved hands Dalgliesh lifted the lid and found what he had expected to see , the twin to the cut throat razor lying so incriminatingly close to Berowne 's right hand . |
| 12 | In his province , Huy remembered , Surere had tried to impose what he had interpreted as the supporting columns of a decent society : sexual responsibility and even monogamy were held to be the roots of a stable family ; sexual relations between members of that family were restricted to cousins . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Ben nodded , then told what he had seen . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Robyn screwed up her brow and tried to remember what he had said his other name was . |
| 18 | The range of Iain 's reading was a constant surprise to me , and he had that rare ability to remember what he had read so that he could pass it on . |
| 19 | She tried to remember what he had told her , some kind of business , something unmemorable , like selling software . |
| 20 | Knowing their speed from the films and their weight and limb lengths , McMahon found that the configuration of motion in human walking perfectly matched what he had predicted from 19th-century physics . |
| 21 | And the die-hard wrestling fan from Yeovil was floored when he learnt what he had won . |
| 22 | For a moment he felt that it did not matter what he had promised Maidstone . |
| 23 | Auguste enquired , puzzled , remembering what he had seen before when the lady puppet was attacked and hoping there would be no repetition . |
| 24 | Remembering what he had taught her , she commanded her eyes to meet his yet again before replacing her glass on the table . |
| 25 | Owen , feeling at last that he ought to retire from contra matters — — but remembering what he had sworn ‘ on the altar of God ’ — hoped that he might still be of use to North ‘ against another group of Godless communists . ’ |
| 26 | Sometimes when talking he would forget to call something by its name , and describe it instead , remembering what he had read in one of his books . |
| 27 | It was as painful as hell , and she despised herself for even caring what he had thought of Mark 's abilities , but for some reason she desperately needed to know . |
| 28 | I have the impression that the man in Edmund Wilson 's novel , I Thought of Daisy , did not like what he had learned of philosophy at college . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | It was some time since she and Papa had played one of their fierce games ; he never gave quarter to anyone , but she thought that she could remember what he had taught her . |