Example sentences of "[verb] what [pers pn] had [verb] " 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 | This T'ang might doubt what they had done , but not what he was . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The two policemen took statements from the servants about the last known moments of the occupants of the manor , and from Seb , Tom and Carrie , who described what they had seen as they approached the manor house the previous night . |
| 5 | Corbett leaned forward and described what he had seen . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A solution has now been offered and , if we accept it , we were right : the ladies had truthfully reported what they had seen , but in fact it was a sort of fancy-dress fête champêtre organized by Robert de Montesquiou : as no official permission had been granted for this , the authorities denied all knowledge of it . |
| 8 | The next day was hungover and quiet ; everybody wanted to know what we had got up to , and Girod told us that we would not be accompanying the section in town that afternoon . |
| 9 | Fribble , whose eyes were bright and whose whole bearing was alert , wanted to know what they had to do . |
| 10 | When she saw them she was going to tell them about the tea and in the same breath demand to know what they had found and why Cobalt had anticipated finding anything in the Villa Fiesole . |
| 11 | ‘ I suppose because he got to know what I had seen and how much I remembered . |
| 12 | She should have been more concerned , more anxious to know what he had to confide , since he had invited her here for that very purpose . |
| 13 | But she found hardly anyone who wanted to talk to her afterwards apart from an American girl who admired her frock , and asked her to guess what they had had for luncheon . |
| 14 | Peter had begun to study it on Sunday , chiefly to discover what he had had to say about Abbotsfield . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | In the CI5 computer room , Bodie reported what he had found out about the girl to Cowley . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She did n't even know what they had ordered . |
| 19 | Erm cos I I , well I did n't know what you had planned for tomorrow afternoon though . |
| 20 | I did what I had to do in Dublin — you 'll never know what I had to do to survive . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | We do n't know what he had thought about it before this moment when Jesus spoke directly ‘ Follow me ’ . |
| 24 | She looked with tentative excitement at Pat who , it seemed , did not know what she had said . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Of course , old Meg is not to be relied upon at all , owing to her unfortunate fondness for the bottle , and when I heard that she was the source of the story I said that it could n't possibly be the case , that she did n't know what she had seen , as usual — ’ |
| 28 | I did n't know what she had planned for me but I understood well enough her meaning . |
| 29 | Once she 'd met Janice and come to some conclusion , then she would know what she had to do next . |
| 30 | She did n't know what she had meant , only that she felt an uncontrollable urge to thwart him . |