Example sentences of "[vb past] what " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ state of war ’ declaration clouded what might otherwise have been a clear-cut case of American aggression and gave the White House the makings of a case under international law . |
| 2 | Their own experiences at the Front , and the fact that in many of their villages and townships heavier losses had already been recorded than in the First World War , contradicted what Hitler had had to say . |
| 3 | Mr Kawawa referred to the ‘ confusion ’ which would result from people being given information which contradicted what they were being told by their own government through Government and party channels . |
| 4 | It was first given precision by Robert Hooke , a contemporary of Newton , who proposed what is now called Hooke 's law , namely that stress is proportional to strain . |
| 5 | Dr Hill our Spanish speaking medico rallied what troops and equipment he could find . |
| 6 | Clare baked nothing that could be found at the local baker and charged what she considered exorbitant prices , which people seemed happy to pay in cash . |
| 7 | After becoming a socialist in the early 1880s he retained what he called ‘ an Englishman 's wholesome horror of government interference and centralisation . ’ |
| 8 | Having made what is no more than an interim custody order , the Ontario court , in my judgment , retained what article 5 ( a ) of the Convention calls ‘ the right to determine the child 's place of residence . ’ |
| 9 | Combining with the Republicans , they defeated what came to be called " the Court-packing plan " . |
| 10 | Then I provided what I hoped to be the optimum conditions for healthy growth — perfect drainage . |
| 11 | It was the undertaker , to give him his common nomenclature , who provided what was considered ‘ correct ’ in a given situation , and he alone decided on the trappings . |
| 12 | Pointing to the easy pickings and careless pleasures of newspaper sellers , flower sellers , barrel-organ boys and other youthful street traders , a government report of 1910 provided what was perhaps the most extravagant version of these common Edwardian fears : |
| 13 | Several months into my secondary education , this working provided what was for me the greatest locospotting thrill of the decade . |
| 14 | This provided what was perceived as a very secure milieu : as Chaplin ( 1978 , p. 82 ) describes it : ‘ You were known , you were named , you had your place , you could make your mark in life ’ . |
| 15 | And as he and Bulmer ( 1978 ) describe it , in that place the solidarity provided what amounted to ‘ a sort of complete welfare system ’ ( p. 81 ) . |
| 16 | Its 1,900-page report covered ( i ) the months after the September 1973 military coup against the left-wing Allende government ; ( ii ) the mass terror of 1974-77 carried out through the National Intelligence Directorate ( DINA ) secret police , which provided what the report called " central co-ordination revealing a will to exterminate a category of people … [ to whom the regime ] attributed a high degree of political dangerousness " ; and ( ii ) the post-1977 period of institutionalized repression . |
| 17 | Right , forty over provided the outcome provided What 's thirty six down ? |
| 18 | But first he analysed what was wrong with the established shops . |
| 19 | You erm , very accurately analysed what the problems where with Barbara , who did n't know her job , did n't know who her customers were etcetera , Bernard and Tony . |
| 20 | A Sikh woman from Jullunder , recently arrived in Britain , described what her feelings had been when her daughter got married six years ago . |
| 21 | A young messenger-boy for the Post Office described what he thought brought youths to Highbury . |
| 22 | The playwright St John Ervine was standing nearby and described what he saw to the Daily Mail : |
| 23 | Pond then described what happened : ‘ I saw people were dropping pieces of silver into the box and passing in . |
| 24 | Corbett leaned forward and described what he had seen . |
| 25 | Although she appeared uninterested while Army commanders Brigadier David Morgan and Major John Martin described what happened in 1951 , she moved towards Mr Mercer the moment Charles 's back was turned . |
| 26 | To a hushed court Dr Howe described what he would do if the court granted the application . |
| 27 | A witness described what happened in Bulohawo , a town on the Somali-Kenyan border : |
| 28 | Valerie Way had been on a teachers ' course concerned with gender and the curriculum and described what happened when she returned to school . |
| 29 | We described what we believe usually happens . |
| 30 | Van der Pool described what he called the ‘ ageing ’ process in direct files , pointing out that performance degrades over time due to additions , even if the packing density does not change . |