Example sentences of "what [pron] had [vb pp] " 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 | Helen asked me to explain what I meant , and listened carefully to the long story of what I had suffered at Gateshead . |
| 15 | From what I had gathered of her dinner with him in town , despite her obvious pleasure in meeting him again , she had given the poor man a straight brush-off . |
| 16 | I knew nothing at all about England , apart from what I had gathered from reading a number of the works of P.G . |
| 17 | The first day I got back to work , my foreman asked me what I had gained in the last twelve weeks . |
| 18 | What I had mistaken for affectation was nothing but concentration . |
| 19 | Then I put my hands out to explore what I had tripped over . |
| 20 | I would n't describe anything that was not what I had gone through and understood myself — in my experience or out of my imagination and other people 's words would n't do . |
| 21 | And , at that time I realized what my friend had gone through , and I knew what I had gone through , and I would willingly have gone on having babies for erm out of compassion for people who could n't have children and I would have done it much more naturally ! |
| 22 | Some British colleagues thought it was overweight and underpowered , so after trying a right-hand drive 1.8GL version recently , I looked up with some trepidation what I had said about the car on my voting form six months ago . |
| 23 | Instead the article , obviously based on interviews with my critics , attacked what I had said or written about IQ in other places . |
| 24 | 'A' was what I needed the most , she gave me criticism and took what I had said to her seriously . |
| 25 | For the rest of the night , I could see him pointing at me and telling all the other guests what I had said to him . |
| 26 | ‘ Then , at the end of the reception , Larry came over to me and asked what I had said to the bride 's father . |
| 27 | He seemed to ignore the substance of what I had said . |
| 28 | When Miss Temple received a letter from Dr Lloyd , agreeing that what I had said was true , she told the whole school that I had been wrongly accused and was not a liar . |
| 29 | After a while Lily began to talk , and I realized that she understood nothing of what I had said about the war . |
| 30 | As I started to cool down , I did n't regret what I had said . |