Example sentences of "know what [pron] had [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ I suppose because he got to know what I had seen and how much I remembered . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She did n't even know what they had ordered . |
| 6 | Erm cos I I , well I did n't know what you had planned for tomorrow afternoon though . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | We do n't know what he had thought about it before this moment when Jesus spoke directly ‘ Follow me ’ . |
| 10 | She looked with tentative excitement at Pat who , it seemed , did not know what she had said . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 — ’ |
| 14 | I did n't know what she had planned for me but I understood well enough her meaning . |
| 15 | She did n't know what she had meant , only that she felt an uncontrollable urge to thwart him . |
| 16 | She suddenly realized she did n't know what she had meant . |
| 17 | Not knowing what he had done , he yelled , ‘ I mean it , man ! |
| 18 | Further anecdotes on the fame of Champagne wines in the fourteenth century are told by Max Sutaine in his Essai sur l'histoire des vins de la Champagne ( 1845 ) ; in particular he relates how , when the German king Wenceslas arrived in Reims in 1397 to discuss with Charles VI the division within the church over the popes of Avignon ( a subject Henry Vizetelly describes in A History of Champagne ( 1882 ) as ‘ very fit for a drunkard and a madman to put their heads together about ’ ) he became so intoxicated on the local wines that he signed all the documents before him , departing without knowing what he had signed . |
| 19 | All of a sudden , she whined something about me not knowing what I had done and she broke down into tears . |
| 20 | When this practice was questioned , the auxiliary protested that all the patients had their own bowls so she knew what they had eaten but that using one spoon was quicker , as she could feed more people at once . |
| 21 | For the benefit of those who would suggest that section 2(1) ( b ) shows that appropriation is something which can be done with the consent of the owner , I would paraphrase that provision by saying ‘ if he appropriates the property in the belief that he would have the other 's consent if the other knew what he had done and the circumstances in which he did it . ’ |
| 22 | He stared at the T'ang , wondering if he knew what he had become ; if the doubt that he professed was as thorough , as all-inclusive as it ought to be . |
| 23 | He only knew what he had heard from the servants . |
| 24 | Tilly Mulliver had seen the look on his face , heard the sounds emanating from the study , knew what he had witnessed , and her heart went out to him . |
| 25 | The factor , who was with us , asked him , in Gaelic , if he knew what he had taken . |
| 26 | He knew what he had let himself in for and he was glad . |
| 27 | Farrar knew what he had got into now , and stood to attention . |
| 28 | No doubt everyone in Mouncy Street knew what he had bought and had been looking or waiting for him to find out . |
| 29 | And , at that time I realized what my friend had gone through , and I knew what I had gone through , and I would willingly have gone on having babies for erm out of compassion for people who could n't have children and I would have done it much more naturally ! |
| 30 | Nobody but himself knew what it had cost him to start riding with Nutty as a teacher , and to get to his present standard on the crazy little mare when he had been terrified out of his wits at the things she did . |