Example sentences of "what [pron] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The problem had arisen because the first plan used had a river running through the property — what no-one had realised was that the course of the river had changed , leaving a piece of land unconveyed . |
| 2 | We knew her and we also knew that she was taking food to a different set of prisoners ; they were beginning to scatter over an increasingly wide area as there was now no hope of an immediate Allied invasion of northern Italy , which was what everyone had hoped for . |
| 3 | Denis rallied the defeatists with a robust speech : what everyone had said showed how pretentious were some of the demands made by the party for us to interfere here , there and everywhere . |
| 4 | I acted on what everyone had told me I then asked my friend who had a contact in Tesco 's about it she said well there is one . |
| 5 | As soon as I saw her my love for her overwhelmed me — and what I had planned to say . |
| 6 | This was not what I had planned . |
| 7 | I therefore decided to abandon what I had planned , because I felt that Faber 's too , despite their initial keenness , would now want another sort of book , if they wanted one at all . |
| 8 | I add a few words of my own only because of the difference of opinion between your Lordships on this question and because what I said about the availability of certiorari in my speech in Thomas v. University of Bradford [ 1987 ] A.C. 795 has been interpreted to include an error of law by the Divisional Court and the Court of Appeal [ 1991 ] 1 W.L.R. 1277 which was not what I had intended . |
| 9 | That is indeed what I had intended suggesting to you , and it disposes of the immediate problem . ’ |
| 10 | At least that was what I had intended to say ; owing to a tonal error I declared to an astonished audience ‘ Excuse me . |
| 11 | But all I saw was what I had lost . |
| 12 | was what I had lost . |
| 13 | ‘ The first time it was shown on television , I was watching my own performance and seeing how far it was from what I had conceived . |
| 14 | Even though I knew what I had to do , once I got outside Liverpool Street station , I just wandered off aimlessly . |
| 15 | I knew what I had to do . |
| 16 | I did just what I had to do , and never realised that it was my best . |
| 17 | What I had to do was go back to the town centre and … |
| 18 | Maybe if I 'd been able to do some kind of planche , like your painter friend did on your … back , it would have been easy , but what I had to do was first try to get something akin to an erection standing at the copier of a deserted office on a holiday . |
| 19 | Obviously this was what I had to do . |
| 20 | I did what I had to do in Dublin — you 'll never know what I had to do to survive . |
| 21 | I did what I had to do in Dublin — you 'll never know what I had to do to survive . |
| 22 | No no it 's not , he explained to me exactly what I had to do , before he went . |
| 23 | You would n't believe what I had to do to get an introduction to the sisters . |
| 24 | I do not want my grandchildren to do what their grandfather did , or even marginally what I had to do . |
| 25 | I knew what I had to do but it took some courage to switch that light on , I can tell you . |
| 26 | But I did n't really have time or the ability to sit down and think about their whole term 's work which is what I had to do really . |
| 27 | I put up with all their talk , and I did what I had to do according to the state in which the Lord had placed me . |
| 28 | But I knew what I had to do , so I did it . ’ |
| 29 | He asked me what I had to do each week . |
| 30 | Mum , look what I had to do . |