Example sentences of "[verb] out what [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I got myself invited along as I wanted to find out what drove him to travel all the way from Surrey to South Wales nearly every weekend . |
| 2 | This ferry must be pulled apart if necessary to find out what went wrong . |
| 3 | Presumably to find out what went wrong in the Abbey . ’ |
| 4 | Research shows that many injured patients simply want to find out what went wrong . |
| 5 | But Scotland Today can reveal that the council IS considering bringing in external auditors to find out what went wrong . |
| 6 | ‘ It was not what I expected , but I have not yet had a real chance to find out what went wrong . |
| 7 | Mrs Bottomley wants to find out what went wrong and see if staff relations problems can be improved . |
| 8 | She needed to earn her place as part of this team , and she realised , with a pounding heart , that she was curious to find out what made this man tick . |
| 9 | She wanted to learn the new domestic geography as soon as she could , to find out what lay behind all the doors and how to light the stove and whereabouts the dog slept . |
| 10 | I went down to find out what had gone wrong . |
| 11 | I was unable to find out what had happened to him . |
| 12 | Not until the anonymous informant had rung again on 4 August and there had been more calls to Lawrence , and they had finally made contact with John Lewis , did the Panel begin to find out what had really happened . |
| 13 | But first I would make one further effort to solve the last enigma : to find out what had happened to Leslie . |
| 14 | During the meal Elisa was able to find out what had happened to her immediately after the attack on the steps of the church . |
| 15 | The names of the people are arbitrary labels , but the point of the sentence can not be grasped unless it is realized that the reason for the questioning was to find out what had happened from someone who had seen it . |
| 16 | Shirley questioned Diane because she wanted to find out what had happened . |
| 17 | When stereo LPs were launched in 1958 , someone pointed out this fact , and research was put in motion to find out what had happened to the ‘ stereo cylinder ’ . |
| 18 | A few days previously I had paid a quick visit to Bourn , which had not yet closed down , to say goodbye to those of my acquaintances who were still there , and to find out what had happened to Rosemary . |
| 19 | City book stores had queues of buyers on the first day eager to find out what had so upset stockbrokers UBS Phillips & Drew . |
| 20 | On 7 February 1968 he failed to meet a friend , who was worried enough to call at Adams 's house on El Roble in Beverly Hills to find out what had happened to him . |
| 21 | A team of experts was paid handsomely by Broderick to reconstruct the accident in an attempt to find out what had happened . |
| 22 | At noon , Florrie could n't wait any longer and went round to Josh 's house to find out what had happened to Ebenezer . |
| 23 | But her father the king was angry and sad at the loss of his daughter ; he asked a wise woman to find out what had become of the princess . |
| 24 | We were called to an explosion and house fire in Sutton-in-Ashfield and I responded as Officer in Charge and I pulled up outside , we dealt with the fire and then we began the investigation to find out what had happened . |
| 25 | Amid all these shattering events I had little time to try to find out what had happened to Eric . |
| 26 | I had to find out what had happened . |
| 27 | I stayed to find out what had happened , took a few steps into the hall , and almost followed her example . |
| 28 | Now it only increased his determination to find out what had made her so wary , so controlled . |
| 29 | The Minister 's announcement — which again I welcome without qualification — comes six years after the Audit Commission 's report on care in the community , which in paragraph 28 highlighted the fact that then , six years ago , there were 37,000 fewer mentally ill and mentally handicapped patients than there were 10 years ago but that nobody knew where those who had been discharged were because nobody had done anything to find out what had happened to them . |
| 30 | Police are trying to find out what caused the car to go out of control , cross the road and overturn down the steep embankment at just after 1pm . |