Example sentences of "and [verb] [Wh det] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This rather reserved child , this self-styled future utopian essayist , found herself rattling on about unhappiness and happiness , found herself possessed by a desire to comprehend and convey what had happened , was happening , to a handful of people near her . |
| 2 | The sixth Duke never married , but he was a great horticulturist , and it is believed it was his interest and influence which led to the establishment of the Royal Horticultural Society at Chiswick . |
| 3 | They stopped , of course , and asked what had happened , and two minutes later the three girls — clutching a pair of high-heeled shoes — were safely ensconced in the back of the car . |
| 4 | In a sense this was so , but on the other hand the activity of town planning soon got bogged down in a technical bureaucracy , losing the dash and verve which sustained it during the 1940s . |
| 5 | Her mummy , drawn by the noise , ran out of the tent , and seeing what had happened put her arms round her to comfort her and took her back into the tent . |
| 6 | ‘ But I am very disappointed as I was looking forward to going to the West Indies and seeing what promised to be a great series . ’ |
| 7 | Most of the Committee were at the prize-giving and the cheese and winetasting which followed . |
| 8 | We did n't know where it was and it was only at the end of the exhibition , when everything was being dismantled , that we found the piece hidden away and realised what had happened . |
| 9 | Subsequently the subdeacon Riculf was tortured and revealed what lay behind the attack on Gregory . |
| 10 | Not only wrote it , but published it and made what seemed to a poorly-paid lecturer to be a very acceptable amount of money with it . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In bed , his mind kept turning in an endless loop , living and reliving what had happened . |
| 13 | Sir John breathed deeply , trying to control the spasm of rage and fear which shot through him . |
| 14 | McAllister , still beset by that strange mixture of desire and fear which gripped her whenever he began to make love to her at even the lightest level , found herself shivering , but allowed him to continue , and when the next kiss found her lips she responded to him , timidly , it was true , but still a response . |
| 15 | Valerie Way had been on a teachers ' course concerned with gender and the curriculum and described what happened when she returned to school . |
| 16 | For the first time in her life she faced the truth of her past , clear-eyed as her formidable father 's daughter ought to be , devoid of pride and love of self , and inspected what had brought her to this pass . |
| 17 | Anger is common reaction , and one way to help overcome this distress is to go and discuss what happened with your vet . |
| 18 | Decision-makers do not have a ‘ blank sheet ’ upon which they can inscribe their own policy proposals and supersede what came before . |
| 19 | For most individuals this has been no great loss , the system usually being considered a much more complicated procedure than simply walking into a showroom and purchasing whatever took your ( and your pocket 's ) fancy . |
| 20 | Could you tell me about the newt and the Knifefish , and suggest what happened to my disappearing fish ? |
| 21 | STUNG by the jeers and booing which greeted last year 's avant garde production of The Gondoliers , the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company says it has toned down the designs for its new version of The Mikado — despite the presence of a Lord High Executioner in flourescent pink leggings and yellow platform shoes , writes James Delingpole , Arts Correspondent . |
| 22 | We 're gon na come around the Lord 's table now and celebrate what made it possible for us , and we 're gon na sing that little song , it 's in the front of your erm Songs of Fellowship , it 's number five . |
| 23 | Guerrillas from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia ( FARC ) and the National Liberation Army ( ELN ) on Aug. 11 and Aug. 16 carried out raids in the departments of Huilar and Bolívar which resulted in the deaths of 17 members of the security forces , 20 guerrillas and two doctors . |
| 24 | He was to pay tribute to Kingsmill after his death in an exchange of letters with Malcolm Muggeridge , published as About Kingsmill ( 1951 ) , and recalled what had been the deepest friendship of his life between the lines of Johnson and Boswell ( 1958 ) , the last book written at the height of his powers . |
| 25 | Many of the rebels were arrested and shot which gave impetus to Irish Nationalism which , in turn , was much opposed by the Northern Counties of Ulster , who had Lord Carson as their leader . |
| 26 | It was saddled and bridled which meant , so Allen reasoned , that either its rider had been thrown in the darkness of the Waste and the horse had bolted , or that for some unknown reason the verderers had been content to abandon the harness with the horse . |
| 27 | I lay out , warm in the cloudy air , oblivious to the rain and hail which lashed the mountain and left its edges white . |
| 28 | The common complaint that luxury extends itself even to the lowest ranks of the people , and that the labouring poor will not now be contented with the same food , clothing and lodging which satisfied them in former times , may convince us that it is not the money price of labour only , but its real recompense , which has been augmented . |
| 29 | He thought of his own rigorous training , the constant reports on his work and conduct which followed him from computer base to computer base . |
| 30 | May I on behalf of my right hon. and hon. Friends point out that the disgraceful barracking and shouting which came from the mob opposite during the reply was clearly an exercise orchestrated by the Labour Whips ? |