Example sentences of "what had [vb pp] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He asked what had become of the keys Ruby had used . |
| 3 | But her father the king was angry and sad at the loss of his daughter ; he asked a wise woman to find out what had become of the princess . |
| 4 | And if so , whose hand had struck him down , and what had become of the weapon ? |
| 5 | One could ask , therefore , what role is ascribed in Formalist theory to the author , on whom biographical criticism had been based ; what had become of the reality which mimetic and historically orientated theories had placed at the centre of their concerns ; and finally what function it gives to thought , which had been the focus of philosophically biased criticisms . |
| 6 | Much has already been said in the preceding pages about the subsequent progress through the learned hierarchy of the student who chose to become a muderris : with ability , luck , good connections or a combination of the three he would teach through a number of grades of medreses , eventually to turn to the mevleviyet kadiliks through which he might hope to rise ultimately to what had become by the end of the sixteenth century the principal office in the hierarchy , the Muftilik of Istanbul . |
| 7 | What had gone from the attic she could only guess , for she did not remember half the things they stored there . |
| 8 | He had skilfully evaded Margie 's questions , moving on to talk instead about Kurt Eklund , the financial genius he had hired after Greg 's death to help him avoid what had seemed at the time almost certain ruin . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | This , as we mentioned , was what had occurred during the Maccabean dynasty , Israel 's last monarchy . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Tammuz suspected the man may have eavesdropped on what had occurred in the canteen , but behaved as if he had n't . |
| 13 | Agnes began to cry , quietly at first , then it mounted into sobs , then almost into hysteria and in it she gabbled out incoherently to the three gaping sisters what had transpired from the time she had taken the linen across to the house . |
| 14 | What had come to the poets in their most serene or passionate moments we glided into as easily as we gathered flowers for Maud or Blanche or Mabel , as we lay in the grass with our eyes divided between the books , the land and the clouds . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | It should be added that the barrister also apologised for what had happened during the exchanges in court before the judge discharged the jury . |
| 17 | He told her what had happened during the robbery ; she said nothing and her head returned to the table . |
| 18 | Parents ' main interest was seen as the opportunity to influence the quality of their children 's education … the view was expressed that the APM should be seen as the climax to a continuous relationship between various parties and an opportunity for them to come together and ask questions about what had happened over the course of the previous 12 months . |
| 19 | Quinn , they would say , was standing still , having been overhauled by the main group but able to see what had happened up the road , shaking his head in disbelief and murmuring ‘ No … no … no . ’ |
| 20 | Dr Sasaki had not looked outside the hospital all day ; the scene inside was so terrible and so compelling that it had not occurred to him to ask any questions about what had happened beyond the windows and doors . |
| 21 | In October it demanded to know what had happened to the seventy-acre industrial site and the industrial training centre promised by Faulkner and Minister of Development William Craig , and in February 1966 the DUAC lobbied the House of Commons at Westminster , led by Finbar O'Doherty , who was at this time its London representative . |
| 22 | What had happened to the girl ? |
| 23 | What had happened to the girl he had fallen in love with ? |
| 24 | However , Chicot and his father had been killed by the Nazis , and no one knew what had happened to the girl . |
| 25 | I wonder what had happened to the stool . |
| 26 | His plans were thwarted for some time as no-one knew what had happened to the trophies . |
| 27 | He 'd know what had happened to the suit , and it seemed right that he should : this small tribute to the truth that had been exposed seemed at least her due . |
| 28 | What had happened to the Berwick raiding squadron was not to be known ; but the chance of any of its craft being able to penetrate the blockade , even by night , was minimal . |
| 29 | Then we went to see what had happened to the rope round the tree and there was n't anything left , it had just gone . |
| 30 | So they sat wrapped in their own morbid silences , each harbouring his own private fear about what had happened to the village and how it could happen to them . |