Example sentences of "of what [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They each had totally different stories , totally different perceptions of what had gone on in the meetings . |
| 2 | That flurry produced a result which bore no resemblance to most of what had gone before . |
| 3 | The enormity of what had gone wrong struck him afresh and he started kicking the door and yelling again , but this time nobody answered , not even the snoring drunks . |
| 4 | I did not know much of what had gone on . |
| 5 | The revolution at Northampton may have been different but it did have uncanny echoes of what had gone on at Neath . |
| 6 | He did n't approve of Celtic influence on what he called " the pure springs of Anglo-Saxon democracy " , holding that most of what had gone wrong with Britain over the past thousand years or so was the fault of " Celtic individualism " . |
| 7 | What they were really fighting was the principle of what had gone on before . |
| 8 | The trouble was that Fred had no real idea of what had gone on tonight , but she had ! |
| 9 | During the winter of 1940–41 , the days of what had become Keyes 's private army were over when the War Office reasserted their authority and the command of the Special Service Brigade passed to Brigadier ( later Major-General ) J.C . |
| 10 | ( 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 . |
| 11 | But the existence of the offer -however it arose — reminded the town of what once had been a great benefit , and the Company of what had become a great burden , which it had no wish to assume again , however indirectly . |
| 12 | Visibility was severely restricted and the policemen still on duty at that cordon were dim blurs , as indeed was Pearce , who was out there now , supervising the departure of what had become , in essence , a rather ineffective investigation team . |
| 13 | That he appeared to treat it philosophically , as he had accepted and dealt with the reversal in Ireland , the death of the Lady Emma , the restlessness on his southern borders , was therefore partly a matter of pride , but also the mark of what had become his nature . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ He showed me a list of what had eaten and it was quite extraordinary . |
| 16 | One odd aspect of the policy of the Carolina proprietors was their attempt to create in America a very formalized version of what had grown up in England . |
| 17 | He wished that he could as easily delete the memory of what had followed after she had switched on the overhead light . |
| 18 | Edward paused , thought Joan , as if the memory of what had followed were too painful to be put into words . |
| 19 | Nothing lived in the entire village , and there was no sign of what had caused the deaths . |
| 20 | Indeed , once I was congratulated by a local town councillor in Holyhead for having such sensible ideas , when all I had done was repeat , at irregular intervals , fragments of what had emerged from the councillor 's own monologue . |
| 21 | She would not even bother to argue the rights and wrongs of what had occurred since it would be futile . |
| 22 | He did not at this stage bring the matter before the whole Cabinet , but confined himself to informing four or five senior ministers of what had occurred . |
| 23 | Peering out along the pontoon , he could see the contrasting starkness of new wood at its farther end , the only trace in all this orderly solitude of what had occurred there eighteen months before . |
| 24 | In his resignation letter Garrett reiterated his ignorance of what had occurred , but accepted " full responsibility " for the Navy 's response and for the " leadership failure " which had allowed " the egregious conduct at Tailhook to occur in the first place " . |
| 25 | I think they were just going through the motions of what had worked before . |
| 26 | When she arrived , she listened to the story of what had happened , teased out the relevant details , then announced that the police would have to be called and went off back to her office to do the necessary . |
| 27 | Feeling conspicuous — embarrassed about my very existence but resentful of what had happened . |
| 28 | The conversation was wide-ranging , but gradually I told her the full story of what had happened to me over the previous year or so . |
| 29 | But filmmakers were only able to rise so impressively to the challenge because of what had happened in the preceding decade . |
| 30 | Protest was silenced and it was only the new mood of glasnost in the second half of the 1980s which revealed the full extent of what had happened . |