Example sentences of "he [verb] [Wh det] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Staff there pursuaded him to report what had happened . |
| 2 | Staff there pursuaded him to report what had happened . |
| 3 | If it might benefit Kirsty for him to know what had really happened between herself and Ryan , would she be justified in breaking her promise ? |
| 4 | He had skilfully evaded Margie 's questions , moving on to talk instead about Kurt Eklund , the financial genius he had hired after Greg 's death to help him avoid what had seemed at the time almost certain ruin . |
| 5 | She had allowed him to dictate what happened , yet now she wanted more . |
| 6 | ‘ I left him examining what appeared to be the remains of a cemetery . |
| 7 | Mr Fang then turned to Mr Brownlow and angrily told him to describe what had happened . |
| 8 | When he saw Robert , he made what looked like a little , stunted bow and moved back towards the boys on the lawn . |
| 9 | The look the doctor gave Patrick showed that he realised what lay behind the question . |
| 10 | He skirted a small lake and walked straight into a patch of quicksand He was up to his shins before he realised what had happened . |
| 11 | Cheltenham taxi driver , Richard Morris says he was on cloud 9 when he realised what had happened . |
| 12 | Alain had rescued her as if he cared what became of her , and she supposed he had to , anyway ; she was , as he had said , his responsibility . |
| 13 | As he turned Hause Point and caught a clear sight of Mary 's Buttermere , the lonely valley , he experienced what seemed a physical soaring of his spirits , a giddy uplift of heart . |
| 14 | He produced what looked like a bunch of keys and very quickly had the door open but he did n't go in immediately . |
| 15 | Now , by this point Nick was n't sure if it was all some ghastly joke or not , and then he realized what had happened . |
| 16 | He asked what had become of the keys Ruby had used . |
| 17 | He put one hand out , feeling for a table ; he found what felt like one , and then a long cold metal stem . |
| 18 | There was an urgency about the way he moved which caught Alice 's attention , but it was her husband who spoke first . |
| 19 | In 1843 , in a series of lectures at the Orthopaedic Institution ( published in 1855 as Lectures on the Deformities of the Human Frame ) he described what became known as ‘ Little 's disease ’ , a spastic paralysis of both lower limbs secondary to infantile cerebral palsy . |
| 20 | A colleague from Christian Aid phoned me from Addis Ababa last night and he reported what had happened in the Red Sea port of Assab on Saturday which was when 15 trucks and trailers were loaded each with 22 tons of U N grain and there was a little ceremony as they left at 12 noon for Desai . |
| 21 | Finally he perfected what became known as the Lewes bomb , and a demonstration was arranged before an invited audience , including the senior Royal Engineer . |
| 22 | And Jim came along and he says what did you say ? |
| 23 | In the unpublished manuscript — a cluster of unorganised memories about Christmas ( and , incidentally , like most of his private jottings , more vivid than anything he published ) — he describes what became more and more the norm . |
| 24 | he describes what happened that night and talks about how the memorial is important because he never went to the funerals ofhis colleagues . |
| 25 | he describes what happened that night and talks about how the memorial is important because he never went to the funerals ofhis colleagues . |
| 26 | For a few moments Sandison allowed himself to take in the figure before him and he ignored what had been said . |
| 27 | Since waking that morning his thoughts had returned constantly to the encounter with the unknown Moi girl , and every time he recalled what had happened he felt a surge of exhilaration course through him . |
| 28 | As Golby passed the turnpike gate , he noticed what seemed to be a pile of rags beside the road . |
| 29 | When , at the end of two hours , they finally showed him the document and he acknowledged what had happened , ‘ there was a sigh from the assembled people . ’ |
| 30 | Was he regretting what had happened between them ? |