Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] [Wh det] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Feminists were effectively articulating what had been implicit in much of moral purity — an opposition to the idea that the male sexual urge was uncontrollable , and that frequent intercourse was necessary for men 's health . |
| 2 | Before independence , Zimbabwe competed for and successfully gathered what had been Zambia 's crown of regional leadership against South AFrica . |
| 3 | The Judicature Acts of 1873–75 created a single Supreme Court of Judicature , comprising courts of both law and equity and thereby fusing what had previously been two separate systems . |
| 4 | To pass the heaving multitudes on the track , I raced up like a fell runner , unhappily only to find each time I successfully overtook what looked like a queue for an Andrew Lloyd Webber musical that there were further extensive crocodiles of people ahead . |
| 5 | He could not know she had been on the beach long enough to see what had happened . |
| 6 | Mike suddenly realized what had happened . |
| 7 | Well I saw these skid marks tonight , and I thought well how I did n't realise , until I suddenly realised what had happened that someone |
| 8 | So , wrote Harsnet , there is continuity as well as discontinuity , but that does not mean , he wrote , that there exists what is called character , personality , character , Goldberg wrote in the margin , personality , as they seem to think , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg went on typing ) , when they say you have such a generous character if you would only recognize it , or you have so much to offer , or it is not for myself I speak but for you , not for myself I mourn but for the waste of all that generosity , when they pour those words over you , character , generosity , warmth , looking sad , shedding tears , putting on a brave face , saying do n't pay any attention to me , or , it 's nothing , forget it , I 'm crying for the waste , meaning waste if it 's not directed towards them , but you have only to see what happens when one lets oneself be persuaded by that sort of thing , wrote Harsnet , you have only to see what happened to Hutchinson , MacMahon , Rollins and Goldberg . |
| 9 | Karr went still , suddenly realising what had happened . |
| 10 | Its owner , Toni Hobbs only realised what had happened when she saw its picture on Central News . |
| 11 | While ( 104 ) does seem to imply something close to " feel " , in the other three cases know merely evokes what allowed the " knowers " in question to identify the things or persons known as stolen , deaf , or clouds . |
| 12 | Millions of pounds which should be spent on health , education and investment will be diverted merely to restore what had existed until the IRA struck . |
| 13 | Um it 's also the case that um particularly round about that time there was an an idea that children were not competent enough to know what had happened to them , not competent enough to know their own minds . |
| 14 | Those years were not long enough to do what he had hoped to do for Durham , but long enough to know what needed to be done . |
| 15 | ‘ I have only done what lay within my power to better her lot . |
| 16 | With my confidence about as durable as a wet tissue , I thought I 'd better do whatever needed to be done with it well before he arrived , and then wash it off my fingers and anywhere else visible and smellable . |
| 17 | The second is that of people , and they included Pope Paul himself and most of the Council fathers , who greatly welcomed what had been done and desired its effective implementation , but saw it as all in all a daring and radical reform which had gone beyond anything they sought when the Council began and which did not require significant further development . |
| 18 | And what a month it 's been , ’ mused Breeze , and she made a peep-hole too , and looked out at the sodden fields where leggy lambs were standing in groups , obviously wondering what had become of the lovely sunshine their mothers had told them about . |
| 19 | Lord Carrington , Healey 's successor in the British Ministry of Defence from 1970 , warmly commended what had been achieved since 1964 . |
| 20 | Even if the case is founded on a real-life situation , we only know what happened when the organization tried one solution . |
| 21 | One can only guess what became of the dogs of the town , for they were usually trained to guard their master 's property to the death . |
| 22 | But , as we shall see , it was not the Bolshevik position on the question which alone determined what happened in the Russian empire , nor is it clear that , in practice , the Bolsheviks had had any real alternative if the revolution was to be successful . |
| 23 | Mrs Palmer-Radford 's other son , Oliver , aged six , only discovered what had happened after she failed to collect him from his Catholic prep-school , it emerged yesterday . |
| 24 | Aaron 's company director mum Leah , 36 , only discovered what had happened when she returned to the centre after work . |
| 25 | A simple enough rule which struck his rather undeveloped mind with the force of divine inspiration . |
| 26 | One can only wonder what kept Alpine dwellers pinned to their meagre existence beyond habit , tradition and nowhere else to go . |
| 27 | We have only to consider what happened to East Germany and ask what was the underlying reason for secession from the Warsaw pact and reunification with West Germany . |
| 28 | Fewers Heretors , Tacksmen of Islay " met , at first twice a year and later annually to consider what needed to be spent and how it was to be raised . |
| 29 | Fewers Heretors , Tacksmen of Islay " met , at first twice a year and later annually to consider what needed to be spent and how it was to be raised . |
| 30 | Correspondent Hadrian Jeffs of Norwich suggested that the lady in the background of the photograph could have been Hilda Lyon , who was a calculator on the design staff at Cardington ; he also points out that ‘ the model is of the R.101 in its original form , before the fitting of the controversial amidships bay which became the subject of so much debate in the post mortem ’ . |