Example sentences of "[pers pn] what [pron] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gigantic , monstrous and powerful ; waiting on the stairs for him to open the door wide , so that it could seize him , drag him away and do to him what it had done to Pearce ? |
| 2 | I went back to Holmes and told him what I had seen . |
| 3 | I telephoned Jozef to tell him what I had done . |
| 4 | Quinn persuaded Zack to tell him what he had heard , even though he knew . |
| 5 | He made as if to talk to them when they melted before his very eyes ; he could n't believe it and as the guard approached he told him what he had seen . |
| 6 | I asked him what he had done to land himself in jail . |
| 7 | I asked him what he had told the Department of Trade and Industry , and he said that he had said nothing . |
| 8 | She would ask him what he had meant tomorrow . |
| 9 | She checked that the sentry was out of earshot , and told him what she had heard . |
| 10 | She told him what she had seen at Sandown . |
| 11 | She told him what she had overheard . |
| 12 | She had said to him what she had wanted to say and now she was off . |
| 13 | Agnes told him what she had learnt . |
| 14 | She gave him what she had brought , a dish of beans and potatoes . |
| 15 | She pictured them all staring up as she came in and Michael Swinton giving rapid orders to Punch as he had done before , and saw herself putting her basket on the table and showing him what she had brought , the taste and spirit of Christmas from Bishopstow , from her house , her own establishment . |
| 16 | Of course , they agreed , and if afterwards both of them also agreed that there was more to Sally-Anne 's story than she had cared to tell them , about both Havvie and the mysterious Dr Neil — they had noticed that his name was constantly on her lips — they did not tell her what they had guessed . |
| 17 | Then they charged her £25 for a letter telling her what they had done . |
| 18 | She said , between sobs that seemed to tear her chest open , something that sounded like , ‘ All my fault He knew it could n't be that because it did n't make sense but there was no point in asking her what she had said because she was crying too hard She cried and cried and Nick sat and watched . |
| 19 | Seb arrived at the cottage as the half-gipsy girl was leaving and asked her what she had said to Anna . |
| 20 | I also asked her what she had to say about her old life . |
| 21 | The following evening Daphne asked her what she had thought of the young officer she had met at the Opera . |
| 22 | He said that on her birthday he asked her what she had learnt from life , and she thought for a long time , and then said : ‘ That people are morally the same , and intellectually different . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I did not ask her what she had taken it for . |
| 24 | " Drowned , " he said , and told her what he had heard from Sam 's crew . |
| 25 | He rang the bell for Mrs Bedwin , his housekeeper , and told her what he had heard . |
| 26 | Corbett haltingly told her what he had discovered . |
| 27 | She told me what they had said — that it is a loss of honour , ‘ It is disrespectful to your husband . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ It suddenly came to me what they had done . |
| 29 | He asked a number of men to tell me what they had seen and found the night before . |
| 30 | The first day I got back to work , my foreman asked me what I had gained in the last twelve weeks . |