Example sentences of "[prep] what [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they reached home that evening , George said , ‘ After what happened to our Tamar , I do n't like you being here on your own all day . |
| 2 | After what happened to the poor idiot , Donny , at Sallins , just two miles down the road , an Arbuthnot would n't be a trouble to their consciences . |
| 3 | ‘ And after what happened to Bath , I think the whole country must be rejoicing ! ’ |
| 4 | ‘ After what happened to Flavia , he would never have risked injecting illegal penicillin into you . |
| 5 | All the fish in the country will have to run for cover after what happened to me this week ! |
| 6 | It has been plausibly argued that this , perhaps too male-centred explanation , begs the question of what led to the increasing mental complexity necessary for hominid evolution in the first place , particularly when the older ancestors seem to have been tropical forest primary consumers . |
| 7 | In other words , Mendel 's theory was a ‘ model ’ of what had to be there to generate the observed behaviour . |
| 8 | It mingled , clashed with the equally cold sense of duty , the detached knowledge of what had to be done . |
| 9 | It turned out to be Pion , holding a tray of what had to be … fruit , Masklin decided . |
| 10 | Instead , she 'd become a member of what had to be a rather exclusive club . |
| 11 | ‘ When you ask these people ‘ What were the most important factors in your success ? ’ , they all say the main aspects were the importance of teamworking between all contributors , the clear identification of what had to be achieved for success . |
| 12 | the values of communitas are strikingly present in the literature and behaviour of what came to be known as the ‘ beat generation ’ , who were succeeded by the ‘ hippies ’ … [ and who ] opt out of the status-bound social order and acquire the stigmata of the lowly … |
| 13 | Probably the most important means of evading the intentions of the centre was the increased use of what came to be called ‘ creative accounting ’ . |
| 14 | Even when the conflict entered the public domain , the significance of what came to be described as ‘ The Scandal of Tyndale ’ was not at first apparent . |
| 15 | On balance the trading aspects of what came to be known as the Old Colonial System probably favoured England more than the colonies , though the colonial monopoly of English markets was a substantial counterweight to English monopoly of colonial trade . |
| 16 | The immediate impact of the founding fathers of what came to be called revolutionary ‘ populism ’ was minimal . |
| 17 | Homage was deemed conditional upon the putting into effect of what came to be called ‘ St Louis 's peace ’ . |
| 18 | Emerging in the swinging sixties with her dazzling black and white , hard-edged yet curvilinear canvases , she is recorded in the history books as one of the precursors of what came to be known as Op Art . |
| 19 | Early in her career she undertook collaborative research with William Bateson [ q.v. ] on plant-breeding experiments on Biscutella laevigata , the work involving a study of what came to be known as dominant and recessive characters . |
| 20 | It was not a satisfactory solution of what came to be called the Southwark Bridge Mystery , but no one could think of a better one . |
| 21 | A series of what came to be called ‘ prejudice sessions ’ , encouraged people across the business to say what they really thought about BP Oil — or thought they thought . |
| 22 | Indeed , even at the time of the negotiations which led up to the SEA the European Communities ( EC ) Commission ( the Civil Service which administers the communities from Brussels ) estimated that in excess of 300 measures remained to be adopted before the problem of what came to be called ‘ non-Europe ’ could be said to have been fully addressed . |
| 23 | So Castells was the pioneer of what came to be seen as the ‘ new urban sociology ’ and , paradoxically , The City and the Grassroots seemed to recover some of the themes ( especially that of the experience of the immediate spatial and social setting ) which he had earlier rejected in the Chicago School . |
| 24 | The events of what came to be known as Barricades Week began on 18 January 1960 , when a German newspaper published an interview with General Massu , in which he openly attacked de Gaulle 's self-determination policy . |
| 25 | Now 92 , she is the last surviving member of what came to be dubbed ‘ the Glasgow Girls ’ , the group who went through Glasgow School of Art during the early part of the century . |
| 26 | When I was lately a little kind to you and you carried yourself so foolishly , did I not tell you you should say nothing of what passed to any creature , and yet you made a common talk of the matter ? |
| 27 | The French students commented on the relaxed and friendly atmosphere in the college and were envious of what seemed to them to be very small classes . |
| 28 | From his own observations , and such scanty and often mendacious published sources as exist , he pieces together accounts of what seemed to be going on . |
| 29 | As she sat there , she experienced a sense of what seemed to be preternatural power . |
| 30 | When she was born she had two sprouts of what seemed to be orange hay on her head . |