Example sentences of "what [noun prp] had done " in BNC.
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| 1 | He got long , ill-spelt letters from Claire every week , telling him what Doyle had done , and how Mary the cook was going into hospital , and the Labrador had taken first prize at the Eadstown Field Day . |
| 2 | How did she relax and let herself trust again , after what Mortimer had done to her . |
| 3 | As soon as she realised what Garry had done she would have nothing more to do with him . |
| 4 | She had a pretty shrewd guess what Jason had done to have so altered the volatility but if she was n't allowed down to the pits how would she ever prove it ? |
| 5 | The difference was that although the three ploughs were alleged to have been laid up , ‘ the houses are up to now standing and occupied ’ ; precisely what Greville had done is obscure , but whatever it was it had undoubtedly achieved a dramatic increase in productivity without uprooting the tenants . |
| 6 | I returned home for a late tea and carefully explained to my mother what Dana had done , and tried to excuse the thoughtlessness that had caused her such a shock . |
| 7 | What Richard had done was nothing compared to the havoc that Rourke had created within her . |
| 8 | And at last she broke down and told him what Courtney had done to her . |
| 9 | So was that what Johnny had done , fifty years ago ; or was doing now , depending on which way you looked at it ? |
| 10 | ‘ He did n't — ’ Robbie began , then stopped , realising that was exactly what Hugh had done and that obscurely she had begun to resent it , even before their break-up . |
| 11 | It was only then that Gazzer remembered what Simon had done : the intense activity of the last half hour had driven it out of his mind . |
| 12 | In the clachan Mairi Ban , predictably , was furious at what Luch had done , but Ruari for once stopped her . |
| 13 | He wondered now how he might explain to Beth that his stepfather saw no real harm in what Matthew had done . |
| 14 | ‘ There seemed to be no way of proving what Maurice had done . |
| 15 | How could she tell him what Havvie had done , and said ? |
| 16 | She would have opted to work , only she had no idea what Michele had done with the key to the studio door . |
| 17 | When the author of the Life of Edward the Confessor says that he trusted the cause of God to his bishops , and ordered secular judges to act fairly , so that honesty could have royal support and evil its just condemnation , this may be an indication that someone did for Edward what Wulfstan had done for Æthelred and Cnut . |
| 18 | But what Mrs had done , she 'd restructured his insides . |
| 19 | He is sent to replace Jesus among the disciples and to do for them what Jesus had done on earth . |
| 20 | What Nutristem had done to plants , these people could do to human beings . |
| 21 | She struggled with the cold fear that had laid its hand on her : she had gone with a man , without protesting , without a single pledge from him , and not a word of kindness , not a promise for tomorrow ; she looked at Sabina 's back in front of her , the pinafore tied behind over her gathered skirt , and imagined her husband 's hands around that still sturdy small of her back , and wondered had she let him do that , do what Tommaso had done , before they were married ? |
| 22 | The following morning when the twins found out what Kalchu had done they were angry and upset . |
| 23 | That gave me the chance to tell what Braden had done , sounding disgusted as I told it so Mendez would have no doubt what I thought about Braden 's trick . |
| 24 | Prost did to Mansell what Piquet had done to him in 1983 , and in winning the title he became the first man since Jack Brabham ( Aus ) in 1960 to defend the title successfully and one of only four men to win it in successive years , joining two other greats , Alberto Ascari ( Ita ) and Juan Manuel Fangio ( Arg ) . |
| 25 | As it was , she forced down her sense of humour and began to explain what Joe had done , how he had blocked the holes and netted the gate and chased the hare out with Ferry . |
| 26 | In ecumenical circles of late we have been reminded that ‘ remembering ’ in the biblical context was far more than simply recalling to mind what God had done in the past . |
| 27 | When it reported the result of the second engagement , it used a word which the Philistines in their terror had applied to what God had done to the Egyptians . |
| 28 | They were encouraged to remember the past and warned of the danger of forgetting what God had done for them ( e.g. Deuteronomy 6:12 ) . |
| 29 | Abraham was accepted by God in virtue of what Christ would do upon the cross by bearing the curse of the broken law upon his representative shoulders : men living after the cross could be accepted by God as they put their trust in what God had done for them through Jesus . |
| 30 | The key document circulated at the time was Raoul Vaneigen 's Totality For Kids which was hailed by its supporters as doing for the twentieth century what Marx had done for the nineteenth . |