Example sentences of "[verb] what [verb] of the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are equally ready to project this highly idealized picture of ourselves onto our own past and do not know what to make of the weird mystical ‘ fantasies ’ in which our ancestors seem to have indulged . |
| 2 | One wonders what became of the dispossessed . |
| 3 | There is a concerted desire to destroy what remains of the referential illusion : what seems ‘ real ’ is immediately transformed into another representation in the form of a painting , a postcard or a film . |
| 4 | The second picture showed what remained of the wrecked car in Prague , the car which had belonged to Ladislav Sacher . |
| 5 | No doubt he had many reasons for his ambition to make good the kingship of Italy ; and one stares us in the face as we inspect what survives of the twelfth century in them . |
| 6 | In Germany in 1939 , a British Gentile , let alone a Jew , knew what to expect of the Nazi authorities and got out if they could . |
| 7 | Just in front of it lay what remained of the ancient forum of Roman Beyrutus , three bullet-slashed columns in the middle of the road . |
| 8 | An important part of the research process is to search through the literature and find what ideas similar to your own have been investigated in the past , and then by learning what became of the earlier ideas you can avoid their mistakes and build on the successes . |
| 9 | She quickly thrust what remained of the one package , together with the fat whole package down her shirt where it was visible . |
| 10 | Within 150 years of Osman 's death in 1324 his successors had overrun what remained of the Byzantine empire and had occupied almost all the territory of present-day Yugoslavia which lies south of the Sava-Danube line . |
| 11 | After hours of saturating bombardment , the German assault troops would surge forward to carry what remained of the French front line . |
| 12 | I often wondered what become of the old fellows , when they break down . ’ |
| 13 | You may well ask what became of the Zionist terrorists after the British left ? |