Example sentences of "[vb past] what [pron] had [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In June , Roland found what he had been looking for . |
| 2 | He hated untidiness and waste ; he thought that babies who threw things from their cradles should be punished , and children who would n't eat their food should be starved until they ate what they had been given in the first place . ’ |
| 3 | She guessed what he had been thinking and jumped in with a diverting remark . |
| 4 | ‘ We could just not believe it when we heard what he had been fined . |
| 5 | In his paper , Beveridge repeated what he had been saying for some time , namely , that there was no general breakdown of the labour-market , instead there was an overstocking of individual trades which was due to ‘ inadequate labour information and local hindrances to labour mobility ’ . |
| 6 | He looked at his eyes and his ears and his teeth and his droppings and the ends of his claws and he inquired what he had been eating . |
| 7 | Now Zen knew what he had been thinking . |
| 8 | They had watched her , in the council estate , they knew what she had been doing . |
| 9 | But his head cleared as the pain receded and he remembered what he had been going to ask Curtis . |
| 10 | The eagle stared back at him proudly and without fear and Mr Wolski wondered how long he would be here in captivity , staring out at the same things year after year , his great wings never feeling the power and support of the wind , his talons never arcing forward and down as they did what they had been made for and struck at prey . |
| 11 | After all those years of being told I was fat , I had the evidence in front of me and I suddenly realised what everyone had been going on about . |
| 12 | I asked what she had been knitting in Pattern A before and she recalled that she had been using a pattern where she had used the ‘ enlarge ’ and had asked it to start on R8 . |
| 13 | In her disappointment Chesarynth missed what he had been saying . |