Example sentences of "[Wh adv] had [pron] [adv] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 He did n't look very happy , but then , when had she ever seen him look anything except cool or irritable , or arrogantly amused ?
2 When had she ever cared and why did she care so sharply now ?
3 When had she ever had any influence over Guido ?
4 When had she ever shown him pity ?
5 When had he ever had to be pricked into action before ?
6 So there was the swings and roundabouts where had they not recognized and had come along with us , to the extent that we thought we could do our , a sharing objective er and it brought them out of the , the attitude that was hitherto adopted where well management really could n't care very much you know , if a man did suffer the loss of er five pound a week or whatever you know , and , and once it was made clear to him that there was no further er er use of the procedure and he could take it through his district you know , if he liked , the man did n't , well on exceptional cases perhaps they may have taken a case through , but er in the majority of cases the man just accepted it , and made up his losses er er later on .
7 Mackay , key in hand ( where had he really got it from ? ) , had made his way to Otters ' Bay , and had walked straight in , assuming the cottage to be empty .
8 But why had nobody ever told her that it was quite impossible to keep clean whenever there were any children about ?
9 Why had they just ignored Tubby 's report ?
10 If the house they referred to , thought Rufus , had been Wyvis Hall , why had they not said so ?
11 But if so , why had they not walked in and asked for it ?
12 Why had they never told him ?
13 She wanted to ask , Why had he not come ?
14 Why had he not excised this passage ?
15 Why had he not considered that possibility ?
16 Why had he not thought more about such exhibits ?
17 If everything he had projected on to Zoser was true , or a true picture of his own feelings , why had he not taken the action upon himself ?
18 But even so , why had he not come running to find out what was happening ?
19 Why had he not continued climbing over the gate , said good-night , and gone off down the hill ?
20 Why had he ever made that wish about the picture ?
21 Why had he never seen himself so clearly , he wondered ?
22 She had a tension about her like a strung bow , and every bit as lethal , and she had a piercing beauty — why had he never marked it , he who had known her nearly three years ? that made his heart contract as he looked at her .
23 Why had he never got round to building another sonic screwdriver ?
24 She was normally a very honest person — so why had she just lied through her teeth ?
25 Why had she even wasted time trying to defend herself ?
26 And why had she secretly kept it all those years , when she did n't want it ?
27 Why had she not consulted them ?
28 Why had she not realised earlier ?
29 Why had she not made connections between the secrecy , the silent , passively gloomy , growing of Maggie inside herself and this new , equally secret , growth ?
30 Why had she not made the connection and what , in any case , was the connection ?
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