Example sentences of "[prep] what [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ After what happened last night ? |
| 2 | ‘ After what happened last time , ’ she replied . |
| 3 | The answer lies in the provision of a structured Church and in the definition of what constituted heretical belief . |
| 4 | The legal concept of what constituted riotous assembly had proved utterly inadequate to the complexities of modem politics . |
| 5 | This discussion if we may call it that — was part of a wider , on-going debate of what constituted true nobility . |
| 6 | The hon. Gentleman is really behaving disgracefully — — when he accuses British Rail of negligence before an inquiry has even begun , and when he has not the slightest idea of what caused that accident . |
| 7 | Sociologists , social psychologists , anthropologists and economists began to use and develop variable analysis in a series of what became classic studies . |
| 8 | Within minutes of the prime ministers sitting down at 4.15 p.m. , we had constructed the wording of what became Early Day Motion number 174 , and which read as follows : |
| 9 | There there was the message of Marcus Garvey , whose writings and activities before and after the First World War laid the foundations of what became Black Power . |
| 10 | He finished up as Programme controller and deputy managing director of ATV , laying the foundations for much of what became Central Television . |
| 11 | Once he saw a great swirling mass of gulls and rooks over a messy area of what seemed upturned soil and rubbish . |
| 12 | Fourth , and lastly , feminist psychologists try to get a more balanced picture of what established psychological sex differences mean . |
| 13 | It 's been known for a very long time that from these cases you can isolate this organism C diphtheria bacterium which you saw in the practical classes and has this distinctive stayed property where er certain granules can be stayed up and also the arrangement of the cells is rather reminiscent of what called Chinese lettering . |
| 14 | And when I recall the shattering consequences of what happened one night a month or so later , I think of Hamlet , saying ‘ When sorrows come , they come not single spies , But in battalions . ’ |
| 15 | He allegedly told police that he had no memory of what happened that night . |
| 16 | ‘ Is it because of what happened this evening ? ’ |
| 17 | The lord abbot here has been good enough to admit me to his confidence so far as is appropriate , since I was a witness of what happened this morning , but now you have cause to enquire further , as I understand . |
| 18 | ‘ But in truth there was much more at the back of it all , including the whole story of what happened this summer between Kee and me . ’ |
| 19 | So it 's absolutely essential that we do go forward formally and take up all the issues in relation to the minimum achieved performance levels and the scheme arising from the consolidation of the effects of last year 's pay settlement , but as er most of the delegates from British Gas will know , I 've been er ensuring that we first of all get all of the reports in from the regional joint indu regional joint trade union secretaries to ensure that we have as much information for once as British Gas has , about what 's going on within the company , and secondly we 've had er full debates on the trade union side to ensure we were well aware of just exactly what our recollections were of what happened last year and to ensure we 're going forward in a clear and a positive way . |
| 20 | ‘ Because of what happened last October and November . |
| 21 | ‘ We kept everything quiet until it had all been confirmed and there was no risk of a repeat of what happened last time . ’ |
| 22 | With what seemed super-human strength and control he drew the short sword to the left , then back to the right , his intestines spilling out onto the cobbles . |
| 23 | They were mixed up with what happened last night . ’ |
| 24 | Her husband John is still trying to come to terms with what happened three years ago . |
| 25 | I arrived breathless and late , having been delayed in what seemed heavier traffic than usual . |
| 26 | A very powerful account , And I Do n't Want To Live This Life , was written by the mother of a girl who , from infancy , had behaved in what seemed abnormal ways . |
| 27 | The British , in late 1940 , began to integrate command for all three services deployed in what became Combined Operations . |
| 28 | In Britain , Huxley introduced this kind of physiology from France and Germany from the 1850s ; and in the last quarter of the century his pupils ( trained in South Kensington , in what became Imperial College ) filled chairs in British universities , where the field was now becoming separated from medicine . |
| 29 | Several hours later after flying over what seemed endless tracts of grey-green Siberian tundra we descended over the great expanse of the Lena River . |
| 30 | Before he had time to refuse , she added , ‘ As I said to you before , I think you and Len both need to talk over what happened that day . |