Example sentences of "[to-vb] what [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The comment was made with the intention of changing the subject and , thanks to the Dane 's interest in his commercial success , her ploy worked , for he nodded and proceeded to recite what sounded like a full two pages from his order book . |
| 2 | Science can try to understand what happened in the first half billionth of a second of the life of the universe . |
| 3 | Festinger and his colleagues wished to study what happened in a religious sect when their prophecy that the world was coming to an end on a particular day turned out to be wrong ( Festinger , Rieken , and Schachter 1956 ) . |
| 4 | Originally this means of disposal was performed as an experiment to assess what happened to the radioactive material . |
| 5 | As Gentle reached the river 's other bank Pie'oh'pah turned and fled , throwing himself over the wall into the park without seeming to care what lay on the other side : anything to be out of Gentle 's sight . |
| 6 | After hours of saturating bombardment , the German assault troops would surge forward to carry what remained of the French front line . |
| 7 | To dismiss what happened as the Labour Party merely showing its true colours , does not explain why Labour actually supported legislation which was immediately condemned by many who were considerably to the right of Labour 's quite-right-enough Deputy Leader , Roy Hattersley . |
| 8 | Second , just as Dear 's image of a few hundred ‘ young black criminals ’ was used to explain what happened in Handsworth , the problem of drugs was used to explain what happened at a national level . |
| 9 | Neither the political right nor left wants to tell what happened from the 1920s through 1945 . |
| 10 | With 20 minutes left the goalkeeper had to make what looked like an orthodox clearance , but the ball hit one of his own defenders and Brown 's quick reaction put him in possession . |