Example sentences of "[prep] what happen [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says he completely failed to understand the Palestinian revolution ( p. 3 ) , that he could never completely identity with the nation or their movement ( p. 90 ) , that he participated for fun ( p. 9 ) , that his record of what happened is inaccurate ( p. 19 ) , that writing itself is a lie ( p. 27 ) and memory unreliable ( p. 39 ) . |
| 2 | His version of the ‘ reality ’ of what happened is that : ‘ In 499 BC Athens sent half her fleet to help the Ionians fight the Persians . |
| 3 | Then , just at the moment when the full sacrilege of what happened is described , there is a change of tone as Rolle initiates the seventh rhyme scheme chiming with ryng , and refocuses the actions of hideous brutality as the means by which the voluntary ring-dance of love is patterned . |
| 4 | Graham Townsend was alone in his shop at three fifteen this afternoon … details of what happened are sketchy … but he was stabbed several times in the chest by one of three youths who were trying to steal jewellery … they ran off … and Mr Townsend called an ambulance … a neighbour came to his aid . |
| 5 | sort of like what happened is that Robert was sort of like , the three of us sort of chipped in and bought it between us and stuff like that you know , so that all three of us would get the benefit of it |
| 6 | The first thing to say about what happened is that it was Dennis 's idea from the start . |
| 7 | So important a part of our story does Macmillan 's visit to the north become that we must deal with it in some detail , and our main contemporary source for what happened is Macmillan 's own diary entries of the time for 12 and 13 May . |
| 8 | " Tam , because your responsibility for what happened is not so great as Kim 's , you and your sister will kneel in the corner of this room for one hour with your faces to the wall . |
| 9 | This weakness in Mancini 's argument has , however , gone unremarked , largely because most commentators have chosen to emphasize Mancini 's second point and argue that the real reason for what happened was Woodville hostility to Gloucester . |
| 10 | This weakness in Mancini 's argument has , however , gone unremarked , largely because most commentators have chosen to emphasize Mancini 's second point and argue that the real reason for what happened was Woodville hostility to Gloucester . |