Example sentences of "[pers pn] [Wh det] had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rex Cunningham had told her that he had seen Clare in possession of a photograph of me which had convinced him we were intimate friends . |
| 2 | This encouraged a move away from the study of artefacts and ‘ cultures ’ based on them which had developed in the absence of such dating methods , to a more all-embracing study of past human societies . |
| 3 | Perhaps the worst scourge is the thought that you might have listened and might have understood if I had managed to tell you what had happened . |
| 4 | I came to warn you what had happened in case there was anything you … anything you can do to help yourself . |
| 5 | He said he 'd come to ask me if I would be prepared to explain to you what had happened five years ago . |
| 6 | There had been something about him which had affected her deep down inside . |
| 7 | When I caught up with Pottz later that evening , I asked him what had gone wrong . |
| 8 | Seeing the look of pain on my driver 's face , I asked him what had become of Eileen , ‘ The Girl from County Donegal ’ , possessor of one of the purest ballad voices I know , with a hint of Irish mischief . |
| 9 | And Nicol , knowing that by then Sub-Prior Herluin would be in Worcester , said that he would make his way there and tell him what had befallen us . |
| 10 | Over his post-prandial mug of tea I asked him what had brought him north so early this year . |
| 11 | ‘ But — ’ Jinny frowned , not quite ready yet to tell him what had happened to her . |
| 12 | Masha sketched for him what had happened so far . |
| 13 | Somehow , everyone forgot to tell him what had happened . |
| 14 | It came from a scene set in a bar not unlike ours , and was said just after everyone in the bar had turned pale at the sight of a particular young man , a regular , entering the bar after a week 's absence ; the thing was , they were all wondering how they were going to break the news to him that there 'd been a terrible suicide , they were all wondering who was going to be the one to take this boy to one side and tell him what had happened to his friend , and why . |
| 15 | This was a disaster of some magnitude , and there was nothing for it but to seek the man out and tell him what had happened . |
| 16 | The very next day he went back to the doctor to tell him what had happened . |
| 17 | Quickly , in as few words as possible , Jack told him what had happened with the Glory , how he had seen the gigantic Worm break through the earth , and how both Tina and his mother had denied all knowledge of what they had seen . |
| 18 | Excitedly I told him what had happened and begged him to let me have the harmonium . |
| 19 | If anyone asked him what had happened on a certain occasion he was n't able to tell them right off because he never put his memories into words . |
| 20 | He then told him what had happened . |
| 21 | Dancing with Tom , Alice nearly told him what had happened that day . |
| 22 | I told him what had happened and we sipped the Glen Mist out of egg-ups . |
| 23 | Losing no time , she told him what had happened . |
| 24 | ‘ Brilliant ! ’ he declared excitedly as she finished telling him what had happened . |
| 25 | And then Ward asked him what had happened to Iris Sunderby 's father , Juan Connor-Gómez . |
| 26 | Rose went scuttling off to intercept Dieter ; she grabbed him by the hand and drew him towards the tea-table , her bird-like voice rising above the general chatter as she told him what had happened . |
| 27 | I took a long way round to Ramon 's friend 's address and told him what had happened . |
| 28 | Seb shouted up to tell him what had happened and it took Dolly no more than a couple of minutes to hurry downstairs and throw open the cottage door . |
| 29 | And I told him what had happened . |
| 30 | I passed but that w I mean it was so , it was lack of sleep and the worst thing was the chap who was marking the paper said er , when I was there , he said , I told him what had happened and he said er , did you get much sleep last night ? |