Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] what [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | People were using any of a large range of software products to perform what appeared to be the same basic tasks . |
| 2 | The rules and routines of the institution made her feel secure and offered her plentiful opportunities to do what gave her the most satisfaction , to comply . |
| 3 | ‘ You know we are Jews and Jews remember what happened 50 years ago and during this time nobody in the world was doing anything to save the Jews , ’ Kahn told reporters at Zagreb 's Pleso airport . |
| 4 | Caught off balance , Kate tried to keep her teetering emotions on an even keel as she strove to find the right words to explain what had happened in Jason 's office . |
| 5 | The ability of Philip Augustus and his immediate successors to translate what had for long been no more than theoretical claims into judicial , and sometimes geographical , reality changed the balance of forces . |
| 6 | The facts must show , however , that whether A or B committed the final act , the other must have assisted , encouraged or , at least , failed to take necessary steps to prevent what happened . |
| 7 | The organisational side of the investigation described here will in the great majority of cases reveal what went wrong , either physically and mechanically or from a procedural or handling point of view . |
| 8 | ‘ I am responsible , ’ she thought as they sat in the train and Victoria pulled up seat cushions to see what lay beneath them and Jonathon studied a diagram of the rigging on a schooner . |
| 9 | When stewards realised what had happened after the second false start there was ‘ a period of shocked dismay ’ before anyone tried to stop the runaway field . |
| 10 | When stewards realised what had happened after the second false start there was ‘ a period of shocked dismay ’ before anyone tried to stop the runaway field . |
| 11 | Often the policies of individual railway companies determined what happened As Professor Simmonds has pointed out the Great Western was mainly concerned with long distance traffic in its early years . |
| 12 | I have visited Southampton within the past few days to see what had become of one of the subsidiaries there Hampshire Bus . |
| 13 | Army bomb experts were called to ICI Wilton on Teesside when workers unearthed what appeared to be an unexploded wartime shell . |
| 14 | He used Planck 's ideas to interpret what had proved classically inexplicable in the photoelectric effect . |
| 15 | Home Office officials knew what needed to be done , but were inhibited by the political climate from doing it . |
| 16 | At the very bottom , her fingers touched what felt like a photograph . |
| 17 | She crouched down to retrieve a comb from underneath the seat in front , and her fingers brushed what appeared to be a small piece of card . |
| 18 | Among a mass of bloody feathers lay what appeared to be the remains of two– or it mi–ht have been three , freshly killed pigeons . |
| 19 | In the early 1920s the UK physicist Arthur Compton was performing experiments to see what happened when matter was bombarded with X-rays . |
| 20 | To increase the reliability of police investigations we need , in the first place , to accept that the cause for flawed police results is generally rooted in serious problems encountered in attempts to determine what happened in the past . |
| 21 | Kuala Lumpur acquired at the beginning of the century one of the most spectacular stations in Asia , where building and train-shed were conceived as one architectural whole and the trains entered what seemed like a cross between an extravagant Oriental palace and a mosque . |
| 22 | In the most beautiful of valleys flowed what appeared to be a classic grade III river . |
| 23 | Endill was thrown to the ground and it took him a few minutes to realise what had happened . |
| 24 | The newspapers described what went on , particularly the annual Presidential Addresses , which generally called for more scientific education , and were fully and widely reported . |
| 25 | Lord and Lady Longford , Keith Waterhouse , Sir Clement Freud and a host of ladies wearing what appeared to be late Victorian chic gave the evening a satisfying eclectic air . |
| 26 | Van Laue supports this — ; ‘ the Soviets proved what seemed to be highly effective solutions to the crises that confronted the Russian state under the Tsars ’ . |
| 27 | JNA forces launched what appeared to be a new offensive against Croatia on Dec. 6 , attacking Dubrovnik and Osijek , and resuming fighting in Karlovac and Sisak to the south of Zagreb . |
| 28 | You need only compare the scores after 25 overs to see what went wrong for the Scots , Bellville being 91 for three and Scotland 54 for three . |
| 29 | It may be that a judge is well qualified to conduct enquiries to establish what took place on particular occasions . |
| 30 | Like the Edwardians , the Mods assumed what had been an exclusively and outrageously homosexual style and used it as a key to cross into the ‘ private ’ space of the body and of self-discovery ; unlike their forebears , they were far more intimately involved with black culture , from the new black music of the Tamla and Sue labels , to the ‘ bluebeat ’ clubs that were opening , as an index of Britain 's more visible black community . |