Example sentences of "had [vb pp] [adv] what " in BNC.

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1 Over the hours since she had last confronted him Lisa had forgotten just what an extraordinarily imposing figure he was .
2 They had forgotten precisely what their confrontation was about .
3 France had done exactly what Falkenhayn had expected ( and hoped ) she would do .
4 Amal 's father , who had always been uncomfortable with daughters , was stricken by the event , but felt that the boys had done only what any male would do under the circumstances .
5 It crossed Luce 's mind that , though he might be thwarted sexually , he sounded like a man who had got exactly what he wanted .
6 But in spite of every difficulty placed in his path , by the end of July 1941 David Stirling had got roughly what he wanted .
7 It was another miracle that it was so near the hospital , and that the driver of the car , who had been able to step out of it without any aid , had in fact been a Fitzwilliam Square doctor himself , who had known exactly what to do .
8 The barn where it was held was owned by a local farmer , John Ellis , and if Kate knew anything about it , he had known exactly what was going on .
9 Before he had entered Yuan 's quarters , he had known exactly what he was going to say .
10 We could have crossed the Red Sea a lot earlier if we had known then what we know now .
11 The Royal Navy rapidly came up with a countermeasure once it had discovered exactly what circuits Exocet used to foil attempts to head it off .
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