Example sentences of "what [pron] had [verb] for [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What I had mistaken for affectation was nothing but concentration . |
| 2 | She was beginning to realise that whatever Lydia felt for Beuno was different in kind from what she had felt for Finn , and this had eased her incipient unhappiness , for while it is one thing not to win the beloved it is another to see him swept off by somebody else , and far , far worse . |
| 3 | Assuming he phoned Donald as soon as she began to vomit and have headaches , would n't Donald ask what they had eaten for dinner ? |
| 4 | But she found hardly anyone who wanted to talk to her afterwards apart from an American girl who admired her frock , and asked her to guess what they had had for luncheon . |
| 5 | And when the great gentleman detective got hold of the village postman and subjected him to an interrogation which ranged from what he had eaten for breakfast to whether or not he possessed a wireless set and if so what he had listened to on the previous morning , Sergeant Bramble maintained a stoic countenance . |