Example sentences of "what [vb past] [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But if you want to know what happened read the News of the World . |
| 2 | What followed dictated the course of his life . |
| 3 | What did do the trick was getting its staff to ring the creditor every 30 seconds for an entire day , then beginning again at eight the following morning . |
| 4 | What had caused the change ? |
| 5 | As I stared at her wondering what had caused the condition , I decided that it must be some kind of vitamin deficiency . |
| 6 | And what had caused the overpopulation ? |
| 7 | Scared pelicans flapped away , and Ellen came up from the galley to see what had caused the commotion . |
| 8 | But what had made the girl propose to him in this way ? |
| 9 | ( They were to remain in use for that purpose until the reception of casuals was finally discontinued on November 7th 1949 , when their presence was represented as a deterrent to the recruitment of nurses and a hindrance to the upgrading of what had become the North Wing of Bedford General Hospital . |
| 10 | The turning point in what had become the War of American Independence came in October 1777 , when a British army under General Burgoyne suffered a spectacular defeat at Saratoga , 180 miles [ 288 km ] north of New York . |
| 11 | What had offended the Government was an issue of the paper which came out two days before Christmas 1967 . |
| 12 | What had driven the Company in the past had been technology and not the market . |
| 13 | It was not yet known what had brought the Professor to the city … |
| 14 | What had interrupted the meal ? |
| 15 | He knew what had put the idea in his head . |
| 16 | I asked him how the scene from the mystery had fared that morning , as Nell had described what had happened the day before . |
| 17 | Both newspapers gave fairly accurate accounts of what had happened the night before last . |
| 18 | She might close her eyes but she could n't blot out what had happened the night before . |
| 19 | Robyn forced herself to think through the fog , to recall what had happened the night before . |
| 20 | She wondered idly what had prompted the Italian 's hatred . |
| 21 | What had prompted the feeling had been the story he 'd told her about his grandfather and his link with G.W. Fashions . |
| 22 | Money or the lack of it is what had modelled the railwayman 's thinking in the formative years of BR . |