Example sentences of "[adv prt] [to-vb] what [pron] had " in BNC.

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1 When I conducted a " phone-in " on sleep and dreaming on a local radio station a few years ago somebody called in to ask what I had to say about flying dreams .
2 Mum snatched it up to see what we had got but Dad forestalled the outburst he knew was coming .
3 The others looked up to see what he had got .
4 Then I put my hands out to explore what I had tripped over .
5 She hesitated , searching back to remember what she had said , and then she laughed .
6 Then , as the rain cleared , the moon shone out to reveal what they had feared : one hundred and thirty tall-masted galleons , in perfect crescent formation , sailed slowly but purposefully up the channel coast .
7 And her lips , opening to reply to his question , were long and mobile , eloquent even before she spoke , though she might sometimes go on to contradict what they had intimated .
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