Example sentences of "what [vb past] [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What seemed to support this theory was that Anthony Foster was said to have been strangled shortly afterwards , thereby tying up all the loose ends and avoiding embarrassment in the future . |
| 2 | Rain guessed what had caused such changes : the realization that her talent did not stretch very far ; the passing of a way of life which had been so thrilling ; impending old age with few friends , little money and no certainty of a roof over her head . |
| 3 | What had made this miracle possible , in Lugard 's view , was Indirect Rule , which , through its generosity of spirit towards the conquered , had transformed militant antagonism into grateful appreciation . |
| 4 | For advanced economies , substantial changes had occurred over the latter half of the 1960s because of loss of comparative advantage in what had become basic technologies which could be mastered by low-income countries , together with changes in the nature of world demand and direct and indirect forms of trade barriers erected to protect domestic industry . |
| 5 | What had brought this change about she hardly knew , but whatever the cause she did not regret the consequence . |
| 6 | Pearce 's words when the six policemen had vanished had reminded him about Jimmy Devlin and his bizarre story of what had happened two years ago . |
| 7 | Ironically , in view of what had happened fifty years earlier , it was now the School 's success which precipitated the next crisis . |
| 8 | The police traced Humphrey 's moves back to the Hippodrome and interviewed both Mclean and Lopez about what had happened that night . |
| 9 | About what had happened that night . |
| 10 | Dancing with Tom , Alice nearly told him what had happened that day . |
| 11 | He went out into the darkness to think over what had happened that afternoon . |
| 12 | Sam Somerville and Duncan McCrea explained at length what had happened that morning , how it had happened and why they had not foreseen it . |
| 13 | But when he heard what had happened that morning his face darkened and he turned angrily on Sam . |
| 14 | What had happened that morning to make you think , Farag , that you were rich enough to afford a wife ? ’ |
| 15 | He said he 'd come to ask me if I would be prepared to explain to you what had happened five years ago . |
| 16 | Incredibly , he had taken up with those student thugs , and they had taken him out drinking until they were all blind drunk — ‘ So drunk , nobody remembered what had happened next day . ’ |
| 17 | But he laid her down on the horsehair sofa , and said Mrs Patten would not be in yet , and there was time ; and time there was , and what had happened last night was repeated , once and then again , until she , flushed and dishevelled , pulled down her dress , and said ‘ She is coming . |
| 18 | This time yesterday I would have said that what had happened last night was a laughable impossibility . |
| 19 | He did n't even know what had happened last night , although he was damned sure something had to make Isabel so nervous of him . |
| 20 | Sometimes Ruth wished she had told Steve what had happened last year , the affair she had allowed to happen among the glitz and excitement of the Seville Expo , the fascinating Majorcan she had met and loved on sight . |
| 21 | After what had happened last time , he 'd need to earn her trust before he could assume it . |
| 22 | What had happened three years ago to frighten the Constable so much ? |
| 23 | ‘ Emily 's past the age for a crèche , ’ she told him , wondering what had prompted this digression . |