Example sentences of "[prep] what [vb past] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the plan now called for Jafaar and Hamadan to meet Younis in Cyprus before consummating their phony drug deal aboard Saunk Kilo , and as close electronic monitoring of their conversations would be essential to avoid last-minute surprises , Hurley was determined not to risk a breakdown in surveillance , after what had happened with the boat . |
| 2 | She could n't simply go on as before , not after what had happened in the hotel 's restaurant . |
| 3 | I was afraid to go into the house after what had happened in the village , so I hid in the hut . |
| 4 | Indeed , once I was congratulated by a local town councillor in Holyhead for having such sensible ideas , when all I had done was repeat , at irregular intervals , fragments of what had emerged from the councillor 's own monologue . |
| 5 | However , because of what had happened during the last few days , she knew she could not simply let this matter fade from her mind . |
| 6 | But in spite of what had happened at the fashion show she did not think Paula had any hand in it until next day at breakfast . |
| 7 | She was thinking of what had happened on the train . |
| 8 | P.C. Clifford and the other policeman got into the car again and drove across the bridge to its junction with Queen Street on the City bank , giving a brief report of what had happened on the radio telephone before leaving the car . |
| 9 | As they ran , mentally counting down the seconds , both Benny and Ace 's thoughts were of what had happened to the Doctor . |
| 10 | In addition to the memory of what had happened to the established Church during the 1640s and 1650s , the repeated reports of Nonconformist plots ( both alleged and real ) against the government in Church and State from the 1660s onwards encouraged a belief in the need for constant vigilance against a subversive Nonconformist threat . |
| 11 | It was very probably the memory of what had happened after the previous war . |
| 12 | But filmmakers were only able to rise so impressively to the challenge because of what had happened in the preceding decade . |
| 13 | Memories of what had happened in the 1290s , when John Balliol was a vassal king and Edward I intervened all too directly in Scottish affairs , produced a careful spelling-out of the Scottish position . |
| 14 | Each critic and each interview discovered and reported the uncanny fact of what had happened in the production of the film , that it was one of those once-in-a-generation happenings , bringing together the right story , the right people and the right tone at exactly the right time . |
| 15 | Probably it was because of what had happened in the play at that point on the previous night . |
| 16 | ‘ I know , in spite of the fact that we agreed not to discuss it , it was all because of what had happened in the past , was n't it ? ’ |
| 17 | It seemed unlikely that the undertaker had troubled sufficiently about those who survived him to take such precautions , but no one could speak with confidence of what had passed through the mind of this man whose deepest preoccupations seemed to be represented by a few scored lines in a medical book and a little bundle of poems . |
| 18 | At the culmination of what became known as the ‘ Eggwina ’ crisis , she infuriated egg producers by claiming that most British egg production was infected by salmonella . |
| 19 | Some will still recall the warm fire at the far end of what became known as the Primary Room and the tiny wooden chairs which allowed small feet almost to reach the ground . |
| 20 | This airframe was the founder member of what became known as the National Aeronautical Collection ( NAC ) and the bulk of the airframes presented in the new gallery are from that grouping . |
| 21 | Some supporters of what became known as the free produce movement none the less had earlier experience of boycotting West Indian rum and sugar . |
| 22 | In the fall of 1978 , while the Shah 's power was draining away from him in Teheran and riots against his rule dominated the US television news , Sadat was closeted with Menahcem Begin and Jimmy Carter in the Maryland hills working out the interstices of what became known as the Camp David Agreement . |
| 23 | The principle of interchangeable parts did not catch on in British industry as fast as it did in the American gun industry ; Colt 's revolvers were the great examples of what became known as the American system of manufacture . |
| 24 | A leading figure in the ruling Justicialist Party ( Partido Justicialista — the formal name for the Peronists ) , Lúder had been interim head of state in 1975 ( during the illness of the then President , Maria Estela Martínez de Perón ) , and had sanctioned the commencement of what became known as the military 's " dirty war " ( 1976-1983 ) against " left-wing guerrillas " . |
| 25 | Also , despite what had occurred in the past between them , SHe needed Cab so badly now it hurt more than the bruises in hir belly . |
| 26 | But while Francis and Mary fussed about the situation in Edinburgh , setting up an enquiry into what had happened to the burgh council , in February 1560 the Protestant lords did something ideologically much less courageous than their deposition of the regent , but in practical terms infinitely more crucial : they made the Treaty of Berwick with England , and were assured of English help . |
| 27 | In mid-January 1915 China was presented with what became known as the ‘ Twenty One Demands ’ , a call for China to make certain economic , political and military concessions . |
| 28 | The skins taunted the police with what had happened at the Brixton riots a few days previously . |
| 29 | Maybe , if she had been a little older or more sophisticated , she might have been able to cope with what had seemed at the time to be a never-ending series of disasters . |
| 30 | In what became known as the ‘ City trial of the century ’ , Saunders received the longest prison sentence of five years . |