Example sentences of "[verb] [Wh det] [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if you want to know what happened read the News of the World . |
| 2 | But just as these two groups began moving closer together , other forces were gathering which threatened to blow the consensus wide apart once more . |
| 3 | One of its valves is larger than the other , and that valve has a circular opening at its apex , through which a fleshy stalk passed which served to attach the animal during life . |
| 4 | Amazingly , he recovered , but no-one could ascertain what had caused the fits . |
| 5 | As I stared at her wondering what had caused the condition , I decided that it must be some kind of vitamin deficiency . |
| 6 | Mr Ormond 's compromise revealed another unpublicised chapter in the shady saga of Scottish football , a new era of player power was brewing which threatened to usurp the manager 's authority . |
| 7 | The wine and lemon-flavoured cream whip or syllabub which had crowned the Trifle had begun to disappear . |
| 8 | From this impetus various theories were proposed which sought to apply the empirical method of the natural sciences to the study of society . |
| 9 | Never again was there to be a nation-wide intervention by the railway-workers , although those social tension persisted which had helped the bolsheviks to divide and rule in 1912 . |
| 10 | Robyn forced herself to think through the fog , to recall what had happened the night before . |
| 11 | It was not yet known what had brought the Professor to the city … |
| 12 | Everybody else would realise what had happened the next day , or the day after that . |
| 13 | He understood what had driven the cavemen , and the barbarian , because the same passion was driving him . |
| 14 | In fact no one then knew what had caused the Communist aggression in Korea . |
| 15 | They all knew what had happened the previous night and , from Wallas Ward 's announcement before the curtain rose , they knew that Charles had stepped in at very short notice . |
| 16 | He knew what had put the idea in his head . |
| 17 | A number of factors could be identified which helped to explain the apparent resilience of these women . |
| 18 | Scared pelicans flapped away , and Ellen came up from the galley to see what had caused the commotion . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | This case of pistols was the last and longest-surviving of the Collector 's many treasures from the Exhibition , and really , he thought , with the possible exception of the velocipede which had inspired the trace of fortifications , the only one to have been of any use ; most of the others , of course , were now immovably set in the dried mud ramparts and could only have been recovered with a pick . |
| 21 | I asked him how the scene from the mystery had fared that morning , as Nell had described what had happened the day before . |