Example sentences of "what [pers pn] had [verb] " in BNC.

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1 As soon as I saw her my love for her overwhelmed me — and what I had planned to say .
2 This was not what I had planned .
3 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 .
4 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 .
5 That is indeed what I had intended suggesting to you , and it disposes of the immediate problem . ’
6 At least that was what I had intended to say ; owing to a tonal error I declared to an astonished audience ‘ Excuse me .
7 But all I saw was what I had lost .
8 was what I had lost .
9 ‘ 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 .
10 Even though I knew what I had to do , once I got outside Liverpool Street station , I just wandered off aimlessly .
11 I knew what I had to do .
12 I did just what I had to do , and never realised that it was my best .
13 What I had to do was go back to the town centre and …
14 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 .
15 Obviously this was what I had to do .
16 I did what I had to do in Dublin — you 'll never know what I had to do to survive .
17 I did what I had to do in Dublin — you 'll never know what I had to do to survive .
18 No no it 's not , he explained to me exactly what I had to do , before he went .
19 You would n't believe what I had to do to get an introduction to the sisters .
20 I do not want my grandchildren to do what their grandfather did , or even marginally what I had to do .
21 I knew what I had to do but it took some courage to switch that light on , I can tell you .
22 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 .
23 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 .
24 But I knew what I had to do , so I did it . ’
25 He asked me what I had to do each week .
26 Mum , look what I had to do .
27 So what I had to do
28 That 's what I had to do this morning
29 Well , what I had to do , I had to swim under the water
30 Helen asked me to explain what I meant , and listened carefully to the long story of what I had suffered at Gateshead .
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