Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [prep] [Wh det] happen to " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the safety message gets across … his little sister Hannah will grow up without the fear of what happened to her brother . |
| 2 | We can conveniently neglect the question of what happens to all the assertive little boys and cooperative little girls when they leave the arena of childhood play and enter the adult world . |
| 3 | Forensic science had no answer to the question of what happened to the timer after it was supplied to the Libyans by the Swiss , any more than it could say with certainty what happened to the Semtex plastic explosive after that was supplied to the Libyans by the Czechs . |
| 4 | THE AGONY of what happened to her son is as acute for Joan McDermott today as it was 20 years ago . |
| 5 | ‘ It was not the cause of what happened to Nona . ’ |
| 6 | It highlighted the pettiness of what happened to me recently . |
| 7 | Despite these important advancements , however , the problem of what happens to mentally handicapped people when they reach the later school-leaving age of nineteen remains , and what happens when they may face the prospects of a lifetime of unfulfilment which could quickly undermine the considerable efforts made by teachers , houseparents , parents and guardians to help the mentally handicapped child attain his or her full potential . |