Example sentences of "what [vb past] [verb] the [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 | What did constrain the seventeenth-century monarchy was the growing class of landowners . |
| 3 | In fact no one then knew what had caused the Communist aggression in Korea . |
| 4 | Each of them had his pet theories on what had caused the massive , popular Islamic uprising , and on how the situation should now develop . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 " . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Above all , how could he have the nerve to come here after what had happened the other night ? |
| 13 | What had happened the first time ? |
| 14 | Everybody else would realise what had happened the next day , or the day after that . |
| 15 | After what had happened the previous evening exquisite delicacy had seemed uncalled for . |
| 16 | He was depressed by what had happened the previous night . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | She awoke with her body lazily relaxed , only slight soreness to remind her of what had happened the previous night . |
| 19 | Rachel thought how lovely she looked , then found herself wondering just what had happened the previous night between her sister and David — a couple who had once meant the world to each other . |