Example sentences of "what [pers pn] [vb past] have [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And , in time , that was what she felt had happened . |
| 2 | What she did has drawn us closer . |
| 3 | To an amazing — even an alarming — extent , Karen Parsons was totally straightforward about what she wanted to do with her body and what she liked having done to it . |
| 4 | Victorine and the others were interested solely in what she claimed to have seen . |
| 5 | In this case it is open to question whether the authors of the limited number of extant documents were writing about contemporary events or were recording what they believed to have happened , based on oral tradition . |
| 6 | Does the Prime Minister agree that the statement by Terry Waite 's captors that they now recognise that they did wrong and that what they did has served no useful purpose should be understood by all those who engage in the vile practice of taking hostages , anywhere ? |
| 7 | ‘ Apparently it 's coming to an end , ’ said Julia , ‘ and the commissioners have found that a great many of the Italians they tried to reward for what they did have refused to take any money at all . |
| 8 | Or what he thought had happened inside his head , for those at the hospital who were supposed to know told him the brain scan showed nothing untoward . |
| 9 | He 'd a , he had some sort of operation or something , it 's not , but at Debbie 's wedding , Andrew were n't there because he some operation on his jaw or something that , ca n't remember now what it , what he 'd had done were having his jaw bone |
| 10 | " Not far now , Hlao-roo , not far now , " he kept muttering , until he realized that what he said had become meaningless , a mere refrain . |
| 11 | laughter so that by the time we came to do the five practical ev exercises you know everybody was in a very relaxed and jolly mood but I think that 's was it 's about but from the results that we were getting from the practical exercises clearly what he said had taken root you know roll key words , roll them around in your mind er try running through letters of the alphabet to match up with your key word chains and you know if if if the word is ball try roll see if you can get it to rhyme and ultimately the creme de la creme is if you can actually get the title of a song or |
| 12 | He did not mention what he feared had happened to the Regent 's party ; they would guess that soon enough . |
| 13 | On another occasion , Nigel had said that he rejected Enoch Powell 's provocative remarks on race , but you had to admit that what he predicted had come true . |
| 14 | In the 1970s a prisoner from one of the labour camps had assembled a group of volunteers , including experts on dowsing , to investigate what he claimed to have located — Ivan the Terrible 's library . |