Example sentences of "what had [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had screens on wheels in latter years at , last few years at school and er he used to go down to the tea room for a cup of tea half way down the stairs , the teachers ' room and perhaps go toilet as well , and er the one at the back was a foot out from the screen and every now and then he 'd have a look to see if he was coming and er we , what had had a big case with birds in and the lads who were doing it looked in this , saw the reflection and shh he 's coming . |
| 2 | As I stared at her wondering what had caused the condition , I decided that it must be some kind of vitamin deficiency . |
| 3 | In fact no one then knew what had caused the Communist aggression in Korea . |
| 4 | And also it was a trick question because Mother knew full well what had caused the bruises ; she was just testing his nerve . |
| 5 | What had caused the sieges to be abandoned was the news that Cumberland was at last making his great move forward . |
| 6 | Scared pelicans flapped away , and Ellen came up from the galley to see what had caused the commotion . |
| 7 | Nothing lived in the entire village , and there was no sign of what had caused the deaths . |
| 8 | Each of them had his pet theories on what had caused the massive , popular Islamic uprising , and on how the situation should now develop . |
| 9 | Amazingly , he recovered , but no-one could ascertain what had caused the fits . |
| 10 | What had caused the change ? |
| 11 | And what had caused the overpopulation ? |
| 12 | With the establishment of colonies as opposed to trading posts , came the need for production and exports over and above what had sustained the earlier economic relationships between the West and the tropics . |
| 13 | But what had made the girl propose to him in this way ? |
| 14 | She queried what had turned a band that had formerly written , ‘ Sweet , enticing ballads ’ into one which was : ‘ Brash and abrasive , pained and persecuted . ’ |
| 15 | What had startled the dogs whose frenzied barking had disturbed the sheep ? |
| 16 | 1952 solution was adopted because it reflected what had become a more theologically certain position on the matter . |
| 17 | The advent of Edna into the household had been a miraculous and totally unexpected blessing , if such a word could be applied to what had become a devastating situation . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He designed a series of posters including one of Branson himself under the caption ‘ No One is Innocent ’ , an another bearing a swastika made of cannabis leaves , the Virgin logo and what had become a Sex Pistols ' slogan , ‘ Never trust a hippie ’ . |
| 20 | One of the changes she made was to include a check in the action , abandoning what had become a ‘ bouncing ’ action , not through any fault in her father 's design but because the technique of those whose ‘ strength ’ knew ‘ no moderation ’ had superseded those whose playing was ‘ soft and melting ’ Between 1796 , when von Schönfeld used those words , and 1809 when Reichardt wrote his letter , the potential of the new instrument became generally accepted in Vienna . |
| 21 | Parliament approved on Sept. 25 , in what had become a regular routine , the extension of the state of emergency for a further month . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | ( 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 . |
| 25 | The ‘ pressure ’ in these cases was both internal , with individuals feeling the need to conform to what had become the ‘ norm ’ in their social group , and also external , with individuals being urged to conform and , given the nature of heroin use , subsequently excluded from the group if they did not . |
| 26 | Only Greek imperial writers such as Plutarch and Appian accepted what had become the conventional literary description of the Carthaginians without reflecting that " Punica fides " had its counterpart in " Graeca fides " . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | As is often the case , some last-minute idea blossoms while what had seemed a brilliant solution and been pondered for ages falls quite flat . |
| 29 | More experimentally-minded workers have since found many soft spots in what had seemed a solid concept . |
| 30 | In March , sworn depositions and subpoenaed bank statements revealed the extent to which what had seemed a normal transaction with a Japanese museum had apparently been part of a deliberate swindle into which Feigen 's gallery had been drawn . |