Example sentences of "what he had [verb] " in BNC.
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1 | Even once Cinzia had bullied one of the assistants into offering Zen a discount , the item she had selected came to about three times what he had reckoned to spend , but he paid up . |
2 | Finding Alec Davidson was much easier than I thought although he surprised me by what he had become . |
3 | He was a literary man and he had dreamed of becoming the Shakespeare of the movies , but what he had become in fact was more like a movie version of Dickens . |
4 | Each time that Joyce looked in his shaving-mirror and whenever he caught the reflection of his face , the livid and disfiguring streak reminded him of what he had become . |
5 | Long into the night he sobbed , weeping for what he had lost , and for what he had become . |
6 | He stared at the T'ang , wondering if he knew what he had become ; if the doubt that he professed was as thorough , as all-inclusive as it ought to be . |
7 | But the burden of it , the reality of what he had become while he slept , had not yet touched him . |
8 | Or what he had become . |
9 | Bloody valet was what he had become . |
10 | He shook his head as if trying to deny what he had heard . |
11 | ‘ An informer is an informer , ’ Tim Skerritt said , repeating what he had heard so many times in the village that day . |
12 | Wishart thought back to what he had heard about that fateful night at the banquet . |
13 | Quinn persuaded Zack to tell him what he had heard , even though he knew . |
14 | Meehan lost no time in seeking him out and asking him if what he had heard was true . |
15 | Nor is the subject referred to again until nearly two years later , when he surprised everyone by suddenly disclosing what he had heard at the Council and proposed to carry out fully in future . |
16 | " Drowned , " he said , and told her what he had heard from Sam 's crew . |
17 | He had decided to take this , the most spectacular , way round to Buttermere principally because of what he had heard of the rich wadd mines in Borrowdale valley — opened up only once in seven years , so he had heard , in order to control the market in this unique mineral which was useful over a remarkable range , from gunpowder to dyes . |
18 | The policeman told the magistrate what he had heard , and how he had searched Oliver afterwards and found nothing . |
19 | He rang the bell for Mrs Bedwin , his housekeeper , and told her what he had heard . |
20 | He only knew what he had heard from the servants . |
21 | Bénezet let him go , and sat for some moments considering what he had heard , before he rose at leisure , and walked back thoughtfully to the guesthall . |
22 | She repeated what he had heard already from the lips of Evans . |
23 | What he had heard from Harry Chiltern was disturbing . |
24 | The consequence of this damage was , on this theory , that when the patient heard speech he could understand it but could not transmit what he had heard to the brain region for speech production , and so could not repeat it . |
25 | He shook his head as if he could n't believe what he had heard . |
26 | The discipline of a police state was what he had grown up with , what suited his talents best . |
27 | Henry II spent a large part of a long career campaigning in France ; but his wars added very little to what he had gained by marriage . |
28 | Art had always tried to give back what he had gained in life , he felt grateful for what he felt he had to be given , some said he 'd achieved a great deal , but in his heart he felt fate had dealt him with him gently and you have to make the most of the lo of the card life deals you . |
29 | The tragedies of miscegenation have never been simple — ever since Othello did what he had to do to Desdemona . |
30 | He would do what he had to do and escape . |