Example sentences of "[conj] what had [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She did not know where she was or what had happened . |
| 2 | At this stage no-one in India yet knew about Jones and Palmer , nor what had motivated them . |
| 3 | One thinks rather the better of Phyllis Bottome for wanting to believe that what had to happen could in fact have been averted . |
| 4 | Very often , the actual fact that what had become boring has suddenly become forbidden , makes the couple start to enjoy sex again ! |
| 5 | Perhaps it was the effect of the enchanted drink , but he suddenly knew that what had made him hesitate before , her social rank , now seemed a ridiculous objection . |
| 6 | WHEN my NHS three-tooth bridge had to be replaced , I found to my horror that what had cost £150 three years ago would now set me back some £650 if supplied privately . |
| 7 | This time yesterday I would have said that what had happened last night was a laughable impossibility . |
| 8 | But it was encouraging that some journalists were genuinely interested in trying to help and did feel that what had happened to John could have easily happened to them . |
| 9 | Many felt that what had happened may have been within the laws of the game but was certainly outside the spirit , and could have serious consequences for the rest of the tour . |
| 10 | Sometimes , as they encountered new crowds of pole-carrying Annamese peasants jogging ceaselessly between market and rice field , or spilling out of their tiny village temples and pagodas , he felt that what had happened was somehow inextricably bound up with the torrid , exotic country that was so totally unfamiliar to him in all its ways , and other distressing images of the recent past began to flood through his mind ; he saw again the brutal French colon lashing the fallen prisoners between the shafts of the cart in Saigon , remembered the horror he had felt at the sight of what he thought were many massacred coolies on the river wharf on their arrival , and he heard once more the thud of the Citron striking the peasant boy on the way to the hunting camp . |
| 11 | Well , I had done what I could to protect the new catapult and , while I was sorry that what had happened at the Rabbit Grounds had cost me a trusted weapon with many battle honours to its name ( not to mention a significant sum out of the Defence budget ) , I thought that maybe what had happened had been for the best . |
| 12 | Beryl 's words had impressed him at the time because they summed up his own vague feeling that what had happened and what was happening might be consequences of the old man 's cynical , even malicious contrivings . |
| 13 | The alarming thing was that what had started as a lively discussion , had somehow gone sour on the two girls . |
| 14 | Abruptly , it dawned on her that what had hurt most that fateful night of the storm was Guy 's detached dismissal of any real rapport between them . |
| 15 | Gorbachev declared that what had collapsed was not socialism but Stalinism , stressing that " it is impossible to ensure one 's own security at the expense of anybody else 's … and to pretend to know better how other peoples and nations should manage their affairs " . |
| 16 | The reason was both underestimation of its length and the fact that what had seemed like straightforward snow slope was awkward mixed ground , the peak bearing less snow than usual . |
| 17 | It came home to him for the first time that what had seemed to him a trivial event , a stupid joke , was something genuinely much bigger to Andrus . |
| 18 | A soupçon of fear mingled with pleasure as Gina realised that what had meant to have been her parting shot had touched target . |
| 19 | It was proof that what had meant so much to her meant little or nothing to him . |
| 20 | Looking back , the precipitous shreds of sheeting rain effectively sanctioned a cordon between himself and what had gone before . |
| 21 | ‘ I went to Co Tyrone , my mother 's county , with the cup all day and then came home and sat at the fire with my wife and talked about the hotel and what had gone on that day . ’ |
| 22 | He did not as yet know all the details of how they had died , and what had gone before , but rumour had it that no great physical strength had been involved so that you could not rule out a woman as the killer . |
| 23 | There must have been rumours of the dastardly deed at the hall as early as 1578 , for it was in that year that Sir Henry Knyvett ( another of Darrel 's antagonists ) wrote a letter to Sir John at Longleat , asking him to search out Mr Bonham and to enquire how many children his sister had and what had become of them . |
| 24 | She took another spoonful of her mother 's chicken soup and smiled as she pushed her fringe back out of her eyes , and she wondered what had happened to the spider — where it had been transported to and what had become of it . |
| 25 | I wanted to know where they came from and why : how they were treated ; and what had become of them . ’ |
| 26 | He designed a series of posters including one of Branson himself under the caption ‘ No One is Innocent ’ , an another bearing a swastika made of cannabis leaves , the Virgin logo and what had become a Sex Pistols ' slogan , ‘ Never trust a hippie ’ . |
| 27 | And if so , whose hand had struck him down , and what had become of the weapon ? |
| 28 | An integral part of deterrent operations , the parade and display were part of an open day for the public , designed to show the Danes who and what had flown into their country to exercise for two weeks . |
| 29 | And what had caused the overpopulation ? |
| 30 | While servitors were bringing food and wine , the visitors accounted for themselves , where they had come from and what had transpired , the situation at Berwick and over on the West March . |