Example sentences of "[conj] [verb] [Wh det] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This allows the meeting to ask questions , comment or review what happened at previous meetings and to check that decisions have been carried out , or that matters have progressed in the manner envisaged . |
| 2 | His occasional outbursts of anger shocked those around him , but he felt an uncontrollable flame of fury whenever he saw a child being bullied or mistreated which blinded him to all else . |
| 3 | However , they have never forgiven or forgotten what happened . |
| 4 | I 've thought all along that Anthea Darnell knows something , and I suspect that she heard , or saw , or guessed what happened , and she 's shielding Meryl . |
| 5 | The wine and lemon-flavoured cream whip or syllabub which had crowned the Trifle had begun to disappear . |
| 6 | A great hush fell over the entire Wolfwood , as if , thought Snizort , every living creature knew or heard or sensed what had happened and was waiting to see what the Trees would do . |
| 7 | Stuart said the girl must have been leading Oliver on and being provocative , I said she was probably shy and terrified by these advances from her teacher , until we both realised neither of us had set eyes on the girl or knew what had happened . |
| 8 | Clare had such a sense of adventure — and it was this love of an active life that made what happened doubly hard to bear . |
| 9 | About twenty years after the sack of Aurae Phiala , Honorius finally issued an edict that recognised what had been true for nearly a century . |
| 10 | Undoubtedly Cranmer will be best remembered for his part in Prince Obolensky 's historic try against the 1936 All Blacks at Twickenham : ‘ I 'll never forget that break which started from a line-out . |
| 11 | When he is really inform it is a treat to watch his work on the leg side , and few who saw it will forget that catch which dismissed Paynter in the watery third Test at Old Trafford . ’ |
| 12 | Hopes that harvesting which started over the weekend would continue , though , were thwarted by mid-week rain and a shortage of crops fully fit . |
| 13 | He tried to give comfort but it was difficult to find words after such a bizarre accident , except to explain what had happened . |
| 14 | He reviewed the massed ranks of the uniformed SA and SS on the Langemarkt and made violently anti-Polish speeches from the Artushof and from the Zoppot Cure-House — speeches that left what remained of the opposition staggered at his vehemence and fearful of the consequences . |
| 15 | Last week the Wagner Development Group put to rest that work which began with the 1988 Wagner report with the fourth and last conference jointly organised by NISW and Community Care ( News , page 4 ) , and the coincidental publication of the third Wagner volume Positive Answers ( HMSO , £6.50 ) . |
| 16 | This rather reserved child , this self-styled future utopian essayist , found herself rattling on about unhappiness and happiness , found herself possessed by a desire to comprehend and convey what had happened , was happening , to a handful of people near her . |
| 17 | The sixth Duke never married , but he was a great horticulturist , and it is believed it was his interest and influence which led to the establishment of the Royal Horticultural Society at Chiswick . |
| 18 | They stopped , of course , and asked what had happened , and two minutes later the three girls — clutching a pair of high-heeled shoes — were safely ensconced in the back of the car . |
| 19 | In a sense this was so , but on the other hand the activity of town planning soon got bogged down in a technical bureaucracy , losing the dash and verve which sustained it during the 1940s . |
| 20 | Her mummy , drawn by the noise , ran out of the tent , and seeing what had happened put her arms round her to comfort her and took her back into the tent . |
| 21 | ‘ But I am very disappointed as I was looking forward to going to the West Indies and seeing what promised to be a great series . ’ |
| 22 | Most of the Committee were at the prize-giving and the cheese and winetasting which followed . |
| 23 | We did n't know where it was and it was only at the end of the exhibition , when everything was being dismantled , that we found the piece hidden away and realised what had happened . |
| 24 | Subsequently the subdeacon Riculf was tortured and revealed what lay behind the attack on Gregory . |
| 25 | Not only wrote it , but published it and made what seemed to a poorly-paid lecturer to be a very acceptable amount of money with it . |
| 26 | This love of secrecy may have been a reaction to the rapid expansion of Britain 's formal power towards the end of the nineteenth century , an attempt to preserve the spirit of the frontier and deny what had become the unexciting obviousness of British dominion . |
| 27 | In bed , his mind kept turning in an endless loop , living and reliving what had happened . |
| 28 | Sir John breathed deeply , trying to control the spasm of rage and fear which shot through him . |
| 29 | McAllister , still beset by that strange mixture of desire and fear which gripped her whenever he began to make love to her at even the lightest level , found herself shivering , but allowed him to continue , and when the next kiss found her lips she responded to him , timidly , it was true , but still a response . |
| 30 | Valerie Way had been on a teachers ' course concerned with gender and the curriculum and described what happened when she returned to school . |