Example sentences of "[noun sg] what [pron] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ’ . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Naturally , Mother began to put into practice what she had learned at Helmsley . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The next night Rabscuttle , who had been told by El-ahrairah what he had to do , went to the garden and dug a scrape . |
| 7 | He asked me in German what I had come for but I said ; untruthfully , ‘ Nicht verstehen . ’ |
| 8 | Outside in the gallery Benjamin told the rest of the group what we had found . |
| 9 | Her voice squeaking with embarrassment , she told her friend what she had overheard her mother telling Louise . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The policeman told the magistrate what he had heard , and how he had searched Oliver afterwards and found nothing . |
| 12 | But when he told his aunt what he had seen , she grinned all over her broad features . |
| 13 | Its small herd included two sturdy calves , and he ducked down excitedly to report to his father what he had seen . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And if she tried to tell her father what she had experienced in the Lodge , what then ? |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The agreement certainly included the expectation that the king would regrant what he had revoked . |
| 20 | Later , when she blurted out to Victorine what she had seen , when she tried to describe it , she struggled with inadequate words . |
| 21 | For past all doubt he was on that path , he did find the poor soul dead , he did run to the castle , like an honest man , and tell the sheriff what he had found . |
| 22 | He saw her turn and look at him , for a moment barely recognising him or understanding what he had said to her . |
| 23 | No matter what they had said to her at the hospital , it had been her fault she had died . |
| 24 | And when they turned homeward , to tell their grandfather what they had seen and heard , the king of the vookodlaks scurried away to a muddy , murky , bushy part of the wood where he lived with all his tribe of ugly , dark , hairy , spiteful , brawling goblins . |
| 25 | He had been there before , but had to use Blackadder 's name , to remind them , though he had no idea of showing Blackadder what he had found , not yet at least , not until his own curiosity was satisfied and the papers restored . |
| 26 | Jesus said just before he was living his disciples , his followers , you and me , he said you shall receive power after the holy spirit has come upon you and you shall be witnesses unto me yes we witness by our life but there 's a danger in making that a cop out , because one other requirement of a witness is that they talk , they 've got ta say what they know , these four men were good witnesses , they went back and they told the city what they had found , and there 's placed upon you and me that responsibility to go back and to tell what we 've found , this is a day of good tidings , we do wrong to keep silent . |
| 27 | Wycliffe told the sergeant what he had learned from the girl in Riddle 's office and Curtis became animated . |
| 28 | We would spend the afternoon re-enacting in the parking lot behind the apartment what we had seen in the morning on the screen . |
| 29 | I cried over that old letter , that fragment of academe , because it said in part what I had wanted , then wanted and still want to say to you and only to you , and because it expressed in part some of the physical ache and fear and disappointment I had felt , then felt and still ( in an increased measure ) feel . |
| 30 | Maybe he had not lied , and in any case what he had said about the cottage being his home could easily be checked . |