Example sentences of "[vb past] what [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is why I described what happened earlier as a stupid procedural diversion . |
| 2 | It validated what had previously only been personal impressions : that the work was variable , time consuming , complex and required considerable skill . |
| 3 | Sybil and Melissa mounted what had once been an imposing flight of steps flanked by tall white pillars and peered at the labels alongside the row of bell-pushes in a corroding brass frame affixed to the wall beside the front door . |
| 4 | Outside , in the rain , it turned what had once been its head up to look at the storm . |
| 5 | Their work also confirmed what had long been suspected : which is that the majority of creatures on Earth are insects , and most of them are beetles . |
| 6 | What happened what happened really in , in Russia and China is er that they had a sort of captive lower class who 'd been used to a very authoritarian kind of rule so they were able to impose communism from above . |
| 7 | I did n't when I discovered what happened afterwards of course . ’ |
| 8 | Johnny Smart , who 'd been at Oxford with him and edited one of the university magazines , landed what seemed then an amazing job on the Evening Standard . |
| 9 | I developed what amounted almost to a fetish about toasters . |
| 10 | Lowe represented what had always been the basis of the project until then — the concerned , upmarket readership of Right-Ons which was the perfect setting for a talking-shop . |
| 11 | He knew what had already befallen every kinsman with whom Nicholas had come in contact . |
| 12 | Killed while resisting capture — everyone had accepted the report , though they all knew what had really happened . |
| 13 | She knew what to do there . |
| 14 | Somehow , I knew what existed here went back to the ancient history of my people . |
| 15 | ‘ They had been covered up by layers of varnish and paint over the years and no-one knew what lay underneath . ’ |
| 16 | Caroline realised that she was floundering in such a morass of conflicting emotions that she hardly knew what to resent most . |
| 17 | In front of him on the desk lay what looked improbably like a holiday brochure . |
| 18 | He touched the brake gently as the Mercedes reached the bend and although he saw what lay ahead of him he had only a split second in which to react — a blue transit van parked in the slow lane of the dual carriageway and , kneeling beside it , a youth partially hidden behind a tripod-mounted anti-tank launcher . |
| 19 | ‘ You saw what happened tonight . |
| 20 | As we droned back in time from one lost place to another , I fondly remembered what had previously seemed by bad travel stories . |
| 21 | Butler gave what have often been considered decisive arguments against the doctrine of psychological hedonism . |
| 22 | Clare had such a sense of adventure — and it was this love of an active life that made what happened doubly hard to bear . |
| 23 | One might say that the architect 's or engineer 's conception of a model replaced what had hitherto been the accountant 's model — C6H6 , the mere counting of atoms — in the chemical formula . |
| 24 | Mary Lennox had heard a great deal about Magic in her Ayah 's stories , and she always said what happened almost at that moment was Magic . |
| 25 | While she worked she wondered what had really been wrong with William . |
| 26 | — But privately she wondered what had really prompted Paul Gray . |
| 27 | I know I wondered what happened there , I thought maybe it was the cleaners trying to hoover behind I really ought to change my bed clothes but I do n't remember the last time I did it |
| 28 | The turf , dense and springy after the summer 's rain , was rolled into even stripes which led the eye away to the pine woods in the middle distance ; the forest obscured what had once been an inspiring view of the valley of the Dee , but shielded the castle from curious passers-by on the road that followed the river banks . |