Example sentences of "what [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This led many later Greek thinkers to regard musical theory as a branch of mathematics ( together with geometry , arithmetic , and astronomy it constituted what eventually came to be called the quadrivium ) , although this view was not universally accepted , the most influential of those who rejected it being Aristoxenus of Tarentum ( fourth century BC ) . |
| 2 | Samuel Palmer was what eventually led to Keating 's discovery . |
| 3 | What eventually appeared in the manifesto was less dramatic . |
| 4 | What eventually emerged from Labour 's contemplation of the entrails of defeat was an increasingly widespread belief — not , until recently , much shared on the left — that public ownership was not the essence of Labour 's case , but that equality was . |
| 5 | And should not those in Sponging Houses , who squandered what properly belonged to their creditors , be removed to the actual prison ? |
| 6 | The British must not be allowed to discuss bilaterally what properly lay within the province of Nato . |
| 7 | What Tully built for Goldney was predictably a piece of safe , oldfashioned Baroque . |
| 8 | What was needed , and what perhaps lay behind its inauguration , was an atmosphere of mutual confidence among its members , and especially between France and West Germany , which was to be produced through tackling together a list of specific problems by stipulated deadlines . |
| 9 | When you have a very small , very select , very ladylike grammar school , joined with two rough and ready secondary moderns what basically happened in my view is that when they joined together the grammar school staff , or most of them , could n't cope with the rough and ready aspect the school they came to have . |
| 10 | ‘ I ca n't think what suddenly got into him . |
| 11 | Tani 1984 ) , but is part of a more recent trend on the part of ‘ serious ’ fiction to incorporate what hitherto tended to be regarded as ‘ popular ’ genres : the detective story ( giallo ) in Stefano Benni 's Comici spaventati guerrieri ( Comic frightened Warriors , 1986 ) and in Gianfranco Manfredi 's two novels to date ; the thriller in De Carlo 's Uccelli da gabbia e da voliera ( Cage Birds and Aviary Birds , 1982 ) and , in a form largely hidden by the luxuriance of the language , in Aldo Busi 's most recent book La Delfina Bizantina ( The Byzantine Dolphin , 1987 ) ; science fiction ( Benni 's Terra ! , 1983 ) ; the fantastic , with its recurring topic of ‘ doubles ’ , in another novel published by the enterprising Ancona firm Il Lavoro Editoriale , Claudio Lolli 's L'inseguitore Peter H . |
| 12 | Some 36 years later I was invited to become Patron of Vliegclub Grimbergen , which honour I took very seriously and when my Belgian friends told me of the threatened closure of this , one of the busiest of Belgium 's general aviation airfields , I could see no obvious reason for closure , other than what only seemed to me to be political bias . |
| 13 | How much of Laura 's promiscuity was fact , and what only existed in Woolridge 's overactive imagination , we shall never know . |
| 14 | She sought out Alix , to tell her of her plans to remarry , and they spent a long evening , over spaghetti and Hirondelle , talking of what already seemed to them the distant past . |
| 15 | It was surely part of her duty to find out what finally happened to the seductive female spread out on the front cover . |
| 16 | Wait till you hear what fucking happened to us on Sunday , |
| 17 | Part of the fascination lay in the mystery of what exactly lurked inside the casings . |
| 18 | We can perhaps only guess at what exactly lay behind such incidents , although these kinds of details begin to add up to something more than a fringe resentment of the police by a marginal ‘ criminal element ’ . |
| 19 | So what exactly happened to young Sarah , who was only 10 or 11 years old at the time ? |
| 20 | ‘ What exactly happened on the Jonquil that evening ? ’ |
| 21 | When he stands alone in such a place confronted by several police officers , usually some of high rank , the dice are loaded against him , especially as he knows there is no one to corroborate him as to what exactly occurred during the interrogation , how it was conducted and how long it lasted ’ . |
| 22 | And you see that truck what just went by |
| 23 | What just happened between us could have gone much further , but it did n't because I chose not to let it . |
| 24 | But surely what — what just happened to me could n't have done much for you , could it ? ’ |
| 25 | The the only spot colour that is is what usually aligned in some way . |
| 26 | It was n't what usually happened to him after a performance . |
| 27 | Only the labels will be left , he wrote , for those who come after to examine and try to decipher , as sarcophagi and empty tombs are examined by archaeologists to try and determine who and what once lay inside them . |
| 28 | Luxury-goods sales are falling precisely when lots of new competitors , attracted by what once looked like easy business , are jumping into the market . |
| 29 | What ever became of ‘ Feet ’ Schofield ? |
| 30 | Wonder what ever came of that . |