Example sentences of "what [vb past] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stalin wanted Germany permanently crippled and partitioned , with massive reparations , but with the knowledge of what happened following the previous Great War , the others disagreed . |
| 2 | For the few months before the Gulf crisis , the political world dissolved and what existed had no clear shape ; its familiar forms — the nations and empires — had no clear trajectory . |
| 3 | What did provide a fruitful source of conversation at dinner was the table setting . |
| 4 | What did constrain the seventeenth-century monarchy was the growing class of landowners . |
| 5 | We had screens on wheels in latter years at , last few years at school and er he used to go down to the tea room for a cup of tea half way down the stairs , the teachers ' room and perhaps go toilet as well , and er the one at the back was a foot out from the screen and every now and then he 'd have a look to see if he was coming and er we , what had had a big case with birds in and the lads who were doing it looked in this , saw the reflection and shh he 's coming . |
| 6 | In fact no one then knew what had caused the Communist aggression in Korea . |
| 7 | Each of them had his pet theories on what had caused the massive , popular Islamic uprising , and on how the situation should now develop . |
| 8 | With the establishment of colonies as opposed to trading posts , came the need for production and exports over and above what had sustained the earlier economic relationships between the West and the tropics . |
| 9 | But the existence of the offer -however it arose — reminded the town of what once had been a great benefit , and the Company of what had become a great burden , which it had no wish to assume again , however indirectly . |
| 10 | The advent of Edna into the household had been a miraculous and totally unexpected blessing , if such a word could be applied to what had become a devastating situation . |
| 11 | Parliament approved on Sept. 25 , in what had become a regular routine , the extension of the state of emergency for a further month . |
| 12 | The kinship systems of Australian aborigines , Pacific islanders and Iroquois Indians , which the ancestors of modern social anthropology like Lewis Morgan(1818–81) now began to study seriously — though the subject was still primarily studied in the library rather than in the field — were seen as ‘ survivals ’ of earlier stages in the evolution of what had become the nineteenth-century family . |
| 13 | Only Greek imperial writers such as Plutarch and Appian accepted what had become the conventional literary description of the Carthaginians without reflecting that " Punica fides " had its counterpart in " Graeca fides " . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | More experimentally-minded workers have since found many soft spots in what had seemed a solid concept . |
| 16 | As is often the case , some last-minute idea blossoms while what had seemed a brilliant solution and been pondered for ages falls quite flat . |
| 17 | In March , sworn depositions and subpoenaed bank statements revealed the extent to which what had seemed a normal transaction with a Japanese museum had apparently been part of a deliberate swindle into which Feigen 's gallery had been drawn . |
| 18 | It was stalemate , and as neither Ngo Dinh Diem nor his American masters intended to allow nationwide elections what had seemed the main advantage of the Geneva agreement was denied to the Democratic Republic . |
| 19 | It took a moment or two to realise he had freed her from what had seemed the inevitable consequences , but she was still suspicious as , with wildly beating heart , she traced his steps back along the maze of corridors , back to the relative safety of the main hall . |
| 20 | What had seemed an innocuous and perfectly reasonable suggestion was answered with a moan as of a child in pain . |
| 21 | What had enriched the rich was not their insulation from imports ( rich countries do , in fact , import massively all sorts of goods ) but their success in manufactured exports , where higher prices could be commanded than for Third World raw materials . |
| 22 | The boys had gone out to play on the forestry tracks with their new bikes on what had proved a bright but cold day ; Mary had got three hours ' sleep before they came back , noisily demanding to be fed . |
| 23 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was the centenary I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that , and then when we elected erm two people honourary freeman of the town I got in all of the other mayors from Sussex , asked them to come along with their robes and mace bearers and so on , and we had this very sort of grand ceremonial procession in the Assembly Hall , which was sort of packed out with about four hundred people . |
| 24 | Yes , I mean I run a series for one of the local newspapers on past Lewes mayors , and the amount of work that I had to do for that meant that I picked up all sorts of pieces of information about what other mayors had tried in the past , and things that had been successful and things that had been disasters , and as it was a centenary , I went to a lot of trouble to look up exactly what had happened a hundred years ago , and to try and recreate the ceremonial connected with that . |
| 25 | Above all , how could he have the nerve to come here after what had happened the other night ? |
| 26 | What had happened the first time ? |
| 27 | Everybody else would realise what had happened the next day , or the day after that . |
| 28 | After what had happened the previous evening exquisite delicacy had seemed uncalled for . |
| 29 | He was depressed by what had happened the previous night . |
| 30 | 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 . |