Example sentences of "what [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One wonders what became of the dispossessed . |
| 2 | You may well ask what became of the Zionist terrorists after the British left ? |
| 3 | An important part of the research process is to search through the literature and find what ideas similar to your own have been investigated in the past , and then by learning what became of the earlier ideas you can avoid their mistakes and build on the successes . |
| 4 | In particular , it did not prevent Robert Hersant from creating , from 1950 and from nothing , what became by the 1980S France 's biggest newspaper publishing group -over 40 titles totalling over one quarter of the circulation of the regional dailies and over a third ( 38 per cent ( of the national daily press . |
| 5 | It has been plausibly argued that this , perhaps too male-centred explanation , begs the question of what led to the increasing mental complexity necessary for hominid evolution in the first place , particularly when the older ancestors seem to have been tropical forest primary consumers . |
| 6 | Because of what transpired in the latter part of 1989 , seldom has your insight been so penetrating and accurate , and between now and August is a time of unrivalled opportunities for you to make your mark . |
| 7 | The wonderful thing about the USPGA Tour 's year-ending statistics is that a quick perusal leaves you with a crystal- clear picture of what transpired in the previous year : Which players improved the most ; which were at the top of their games ; who won what and where , and when , and how . |
| 8 | I hope I do n't add to the confusion of the Borrowdale guidebook editions when I point out that their detailed account of what occurred on the first ascent of Prodigal Sons is in fact what happened on a totally different route named Déj ‘ a Vu . |
| 9 | However , if you now have the determination to become a bigger fish in a bigger pool , then you will take what occurred around the lunar eclipse on August 6th as a signal to put the past behind you and devote all your energy to plants designed to give you a greater degree of freedom . |
| 10 | This , Gilroy argues , overlooks the multiracial character of what occurred in the 1981 and 1985 youth riots , and relegates British urban street crime to an Afro-Caribbean deviation . |
| 11 | Another disc started , Herr Hocher placing it on the record-player with his own hands , the result being a foxtrot played by a Russian orchestra , and he himself took the floor with Fräulein Renn , the pair of them going through what seemed to the young people weirdly funny gyrations together . |
| 12 | What on earth was she doing , she wondered , climbing the steps of a palazzo , as behind her what seemed like the entire English colony of ex-pats in the province of Siena came straggling . |
| 13 | He did , for what seemed like the next million hours . |
| 14 | Tony Zanetta : ‘ Prior to his tour of the States , David started doing dates in England and within three months he was becoming what seemed like the biggest thing in England . |
| 15 | What er Sandy what happened about the hot sweets today was the su I had six customers all came in , they all saw the strudel and they said , oh , we 'll have strudel . |
| 16 | To dismiss what happened as the Labour Party merely showing its true colours , does not explain why Labour actually supported legislation which was immediately condemned by many who were considerably to the right of Labour 's quite-right-enough Deputy Leader , Roy Hattersley . |
| 17 | Unlike some young people , pensioners can remember exactly what happened under the previous Labour Government . |
| 18 | What happened over the next few decades is not clear , but it seems likely that the fulling mills were dismantled and by 1801 , Stratford Mills were advertised for sale , solely as a corn mill . |
| 19 | So what happened during the second world war ? |
| 20 | Well , but what happened during the Second World War when all these children were undergoing much more traumatic experiences then ? |
| 21 | Together , the graphs sum up what happened during the intervening eighty years . |
| 22 | What happened during the 1980s was that we measured more things , more systematically , and published the measurements to an extent not seen before . |
| 23 | What happened at the 13th is put down to fortune . |
| 24 | Of course , there are no witnesses to what happened at the other end of her journey . |
| 25 | You know I mean you er er it 's al I , I think the same would happen if you put a five note in inside it would get thrown out with the rubbish but erm the thing is that obviously some , some early day , if one can say in inverted commas early day publicity erm from the Northumberland side of things could a and I mean my view when , when Ros was telling me what happened at the last meeting erm was that was gon na be acting as an icebreaker as opposed waiting till the last minute somebody 's gon na and they think erm as it were , a and build up from , from that because there 's obviously gon na be one or two other things coming directly from national level . |
| 26 | At this stage any member is free to raise any points concerning the accuracy of the report of what happened at the previous meeting , as recorded in the minutes . |
| 27 | What happened to the conciliatory manner all of a sudden , the eagerness to please ? |
| 28 | BTW what happened to the prospective move into management for Strachan . |
| 29 | What happened to the new one ? |
| 30 | In His account of what happened to the rich man and Lazarus after they died ( Luke 16 verses 19/31 ) Jesus quoted the words spoken to the rich man in hell , by Abraham and in verses 29 and 31 we see Abraham referring to Moses and The Prophets and clearly he is speaking specifically of the scriptures attributed to them . |