Example sentences of "[Wh det] [vb past] [verb] that [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Unfortunately for the West any move which seemed to strengthen that country created problems with its rival , Egypt .
2 Scarlet 's mother had moved in the Bohemian world of Chelsea in the years immediately post-war and had acquired the air of insouciant , amoral aristocracy combined with a certain self-righteousness arising from the consciousness of being both aesthetically and ( at base ) morally correct which had characterized that society at that time .
3 Whatever had brought Berowne again to that vestry it had been a human hand , his or another 's , which had wielded that razor .
4 Both of these rejected the notion of the primitive as used in the earlier studies , as well as the evolutionary concepts which had legitimized that notion .
5 On the desk in front of her was the envelope which had arrived that morning .
6 It was caused by the IRA , which had chosen that week to leave a couple of bombs on British Rail mainline stations .
7 Bailey and Harrison ( 1984 ) followed up the research of Cohen ( 1975 ) , which had reported that percentage cloze scores seemed to represent different levels of understanding according to the nature of the subject .
8 If whatever happened to Summerchild that year had n't happened — if he had n't been found lying with the garbage in Spring Gardens — if Millie had n't stopped playing in the orchestra — if I 'd gone on seeing her week by week — grown up with her — become easy with her — married her — then Timmy would still have a mother at home .
9 The police traced Humphrey 's moves back to the Hippodrome and interviewed both Mclean and Lopez about what had happened that night .
10 About what had happened that night .
11 Dancing with Tom , Alice nearly told him what had happened that day .
12 He went out into the darkness to think over what had happened that afternoon .
13 Sam Somerville and Duncan McCrea explained at length what had happened that morning , how it had happened and why they had not foreseen it .
14 But when he heard what had happened that morning his face darkened and he turned angrily on Sam .
15 What had happened that morning to make you think , Farag , that you were rich enough to afford a wife ? ’
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