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 . |