Example sentences of "whatever [vb past] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ So , although that album kind of jumped the tracks for the band , it allowed me to feel that I could do whatever sprung to mind , whatever made sense for me . |
| 2 | I then made copies of the negatives and went into the darkroom , using pens , brushes , sandpaper , whatever came to hand , in fact to distort the images before finally re-copying to get higher contrast prints , which I finished off with selenium toner . |
| 3 | After pushing the desk and all the other furniture to the walls , she spread out four maps on the floor , matching the edges and weighing down the corners with whatever came to hand — the wastepaper basket , the little tin box , the gun . |
| 4 | An open palm , a fist , a stick , a belt , a saucepan : whatever came to hand . |
| 5 | Admittedly it makes a change from Stratocasters , but whatever happened to originality ? |
| 6 | The following heartfelt plea towards the end of Mrs Whitehouse 's book , Whatever Happened to Sex ? sums up her thinking on the subject : |
| 7 | She sets out her position in detail in her book Whatever Happened To Sex ? ( 1977 ) , and repeats it in full in A Most Dangerous Woman ? ( 1982 ) in her own defence . |
| 8 | In the passage quoted from Whatever Happened to Sex ? when Richard Neville was discussed above , Mrs Whitehouse described his book Playpower as ‘ the handbook of the international drop-outs ’ , the purpose of the underground as ‘ not so much to dissent as to disrupt ’ and the implicit and explicit goal contained in OZ editorial policies as the overthrow of society . |
| 9 | Reading Marxism Today ( April ) I began to wonder ( yet again ) whatever happened to marxism . |
| 10 | ‘ Whatever happened to sport ? ’ |
| 11 | Whatever happened to champagne in your slipper or even cocktails for two ? |
| 12 | I agree wholeheartedly with Gillian Loader , chair of the Institute of Home Economics , in Whatever Happened to Music , Languages , Drama ? |
| 13 | ‘ Whatever happened to confidentiality ? ’ |
| 14 | Whatever happened to punishment , for goodness sake ? |
| 15 | ‘ Chris Jefferson from Daventry , he 'd like to see , if Mr Kinnock gets in , some action against Tory tabloid papers ; Mike Humphries , an engineer , called in from Cornwall , says , I do n't know what Labour 's identity is all about — what are they pretending to stand for ? whatever happened to socialism ? |
| 16 | And a decade later , when the term ‘ has-been ’ seemed almost an understatement , she not only gratefully accepted but gleefully flung herself into the high camp , Low Gothic shenanigans of Robert Aldrich 's Whatever Happened to Baby Jane ? ( 1962 ) , in which , with a gloating relish that neither her baby-doll fright wig nor her impenetrable pancake make-up could conceal , she set about tormenting her immemorial screen rival and alter ego ( or egoist ) , Joan Crawford . |
| 17 | WHATEVER happened to oaf ? |
| 18 | ( Whatever happened to liberation ? ) |
| 19 | Whatever happened to modernity ? |