Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] what [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He would have liked to hurry off eastwards , towards Roxburgh , to endeavour to see what had happened to Murray , and to do what he could to help . |
| 2 | He saw this diving towards Filfla trailing clouds of black and white smoke , but was then chased by another Messerschmitt and failed to see what happened to it . |
| 3 | Hence an important tool of management whose common usefulness could be judged by the essential partners to collaboration failed to provide what had appeared to be promised — and one says " appeared " because it may have been the wish of some college managers not to allow information by which their efficiency might be judged to become available to other parties . |
| 4 | Revolutionary this certainly was in concept , for it sought to displace what came to be called Capitalism by industrial collectivism , to secure that industry should be run by the workpeople for the workpeople , and through the agency of trade unionism . |
| 5 | He had set people to follow her , and everywhere she went he would eventually turn up , demanding to know what had happened to the jade . |
| 6 | The Headmaster is demanding to know what happened . |
| 7 | Do n't ye want to know what happened to him ? ’ |
| 8 | My reply to these people , if they asked me what happened at the branch meeting I say , do you want to know what happened in the branch meeting ? |
| 9 | ‘ Do n't you want to know what happened to Phena ? ’ he asked softly . |
| 10 | Members were so kind in their congratulations that they will want to know what happened when I went to the Palace on February 7th to receive the M.B.E . |
| 11 | ‘ How Mr Chapman got to know what had happened in 12 hours is a mystery to some people , for he was in Huddersfield when the Liverpool deputation had bade goodnight to their hosts from Aberdeen . |
| 12 | And if you want to see what passed for America 's energy policy , you 're looking at it . |
| 13 | I want to see what happened , er , it finished just where he says that he 'd been accused of something . |
| 14 | Golfers had reported seeing what looked like a human form wrapped in a brown shroud falling through the sky . |
| 15 | He would wait , he would wait to see what happened to Kurz . |
| 16 | This of course was also a severe blow to the emerging Labour Party and again the politicians had to try to restore what had been understood to be the position by passing the Trade Union Act 1913 . |
| 17 | The records of that hospital seem to have been long since destroyed , but Vivien 's brother , Maurice Haigh-Wood , has explained what happened to her : a " reception order " was drawn up for her committal . |
| 18 | And you wo n't need reminding what happened here at very much the same time last night . ’ |
| 19 | They all die , except a 15-year-old who had behaved so badly that he was forbidden to taste what turned out to be deadly toadstools . |
| 20 | I want to know what caused the amnesia . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ But you want to know what went on between us between Theo and me . ’ |
| 22 | I want to know what made her stay in the face of my behaviour , what made her help his sister when anyone else would have left her to look a fright on her wedding day … ’ |
| 23 | I want to know what killed him . ’ |
| 24 | Lemon juice I want to know what did you mean . |
| 25 | I would simply say that if you want to know what happened in America after Pop and Minimalism , you have to concentrate on art made in unconventional places and with unconventional materials : out of the studio art , land-art , body-art and video . |
| 26 | But if you want to know what happened read the News of the World . |
| 27 | Anthony King reports on a Gallup survey taken after the election to try to discover what happened |
| 28 | He wants to know what happened . |
| 29 | The family wants to know what happened to their beloved . |
| 30 | He wants to know what happened to put his own mind at rest . |