Example sentences of "[adv] [adv] what [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This thinking has apparently not been overly concerned with the argument that from that point on it would be not so much what went on in Britain as what happened in Germany which would count most ( a phenomenon clearly illustrated by the chart in Appendix 2 ) . |
| 2 | She and Shildon had never had occasion to work together so what made him think of her ? |
| 3 | He supposed that she had to be somewhere and he reminded himself that they were n't supposed to be together so what did it matter , but still he kept catching himself scanning the crowd for her . |
| 4 | So then what happened was , did the Dock Commission say you ca n't have your own men any more ? |
| 5 | He had known right away what had happened . |
| 6 | It 's still not clear exactly what happened but somehow the electricity surged into the ground around the pole . |
| 7 | ‘ Just exactly what did you see ? ’ |
| 8 | In due course , attempts were made to specify more precisely what made British broadcasting unique . |
| 9 | Now apparently what happened is I went up to him and said look I might have to do something with it . |
| 10 | I could n't tell then nor can I tell now exactly what went on in Alec Davidson 's mind . |
| 11 | It later transpired that the Russians knew perfectly well what had happened , but were obviously enjoying the confusion their seemingly naive questions were provoking . |
| 12 | But that is really truly what happened . |
| 13 | Well exactly what happened to me erm |
| 14 | Well then what did he say ? |
| 15 | ‘ The trouble was we did n't know until it was too late exactly what had hit him . ’ |
| 16 | They show quite clearly what happened . |
| 17 | That is pretty much what happened . |
| 18 | ‘ Pretty much what happened was that I 'd been waiting all this time to be successful , to achieve whatever I was going to achieve , now I had and I was sitting in this flippin' hotel thinking : This is not where it 's at . |
| 19 | But if every work of art is simply the expression of the artist 's intuition , it is evident that an absolute or complete pattern would be useless , since the intuitions of two different minds could never be expressed by the same form : nor can anything in art be said to have been ‘ done once for all ’ , since if it were ‘ done again ’ by another hand — used , that is , to express the intuition of another spirit — it would be no longer what had been done before . |
| 20 | We do n't know yet exactly what happened but we believe it was a heart attack . |
| 21 | ‘ We do n't know yet exactly what happened but she was seen to slip and bang her head . |
| 22 | And also it was a trick question because Mother knew full well what had caused the bruises ; she was just testing his nerve . |
| 23 | Let's consider first of all the quantitative ground , erm and let's talk about one of the major transitions , one of the major origins about which we have some information , and that is the origin of the mammals from the reptiles. erm we have quite a lot of fossils erm erm from the permian up to the triassic erm of mammals and their reptilian ancestors , and we know pretty well what went on . |
| 24 | Okay so what did I have here so that when I differentiated I got X ? |
| 25 | I 'm not commenting still not commenting on local issues , but I mean I quite see that acceptable to Mid Sussex and I 'm not doubting the recommendation but erm we 've actually sixty three thousand right sixty three thousand square metres and the other councils took the attitude that we would be nowhere near achieving structure plan and I find myself absolutely clearly what happened in other comebacks they were only going to produce three , two thirds or three quarters of your |
| 26 | Some of us remember all too well what happened in the 1920s and 1930s when we allowed our hopes for a peaceful world to outrun our judgements on the need for defence . |
| 27 | Those long years in junior command had given him an intimacy with the poilu denied to most of the other French chiefs , and because of his low rank in 1914 he knew — unlike Haig and Joffre — very well what wounded men looked like . |
| 28 | Jakes and Honecker , Prague students and Leipzig demonstrators , all knew very well what had happened in Tiananmen Square and calculated accordingly . |
| 29 | He had told the legate in 1095 that he knew very well what needed to be done , but that he had no power to do what was necessary without the king 's aid and consent . |
| 30 | I suppose you were n't around and you realised too late what had happened . ’ |