Example sentences of "[verb] [Wh det] [vb past] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if you want to know what happened read the News of the World . |
| 2 | But just as these two groups began moving closer together , other forces were gathering which threatened to blow the consensus wide apart once more . |
| 3 | One of its valves is larger than the other , and that valve has a circular opening at its apex , through which a fleshy stalk passed which served to attach the animal during life . |
| 4 | As I stared at her wondering what had caused the condition , I decided that it must be some kind of vitamin deficiency . |
| 5 | Mr Ormond 's compromise revealed another unpublicised chapter in the shady saga of Scottish football , a new era of player power was brewing which threatened to usurp the manager 's authority . |
| 6 | The wine and lemon-flavoured cream whip or syllabub which had crowned the Trifle had begun to disappear . |
| 7 | Robyn forced herself to think through the fog , to recall what had happened the night before . |
| 8 | It was not yet known what had brought the Professor to the city … |
| 9 | He knew what had put the idea in his head . |
| 10 | Scared pelicans flapped away , and Ellen came up from the galley to see what had caused the commotion . |
| 11 | This case of pistols was the last and longest-surviving of the Collector 's many treasures from the Exhibition , and really , he thought , with the possible exception of the velocipede which had inspired the trace of fortifications , the only one to have been of any use ; most of the others , of course , were now immovably set in the dried mud ramparts and could only have been recovered with a pick . |
| 12 | I asked him how the scene from the mystery had fared that morning , as Nell had described what had happened the day before . |