Example sentences of "[to-vb] what had [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to accept what had happened to me in the past before I could even begin to accept the changes in my life . |
| 2 | She did not want Ross to know what had caught her eye . |
| 3 | Kathleen and I then took the next train back to Harwich and when we arrived , it seemed like half the port wanted to know what had happened . |
| 4 | As I was swept along by the noisy laughing crowd out into the tropical evening I persistently wanted to know what had happened to the dog . |
| 5 | Nobody seemed to know what had happened to the passengers . |
| 6 | He was curious to know what had happened to the condoms , the Bob Martin 's and the vibrator . |
| 7 | In October it demanded to know what had happened to the seventy-acre industrial site and the industrial training centre promised by Faulkner and Minister of Development William Craig , and in February 1966 the DUAC lobbied the House of Commons at Westminster , led by Finbar O'Doherty , who was at this time its London representative . |
| 8 | ‘ How Mr Chapman got to know what had happened in 12 hours is a mystery to some people , for he was in Huddersfield when the Liverpool deputation had bade goodnight to their hosts from Aberdeen . |
| 9 | She looked very peaceful , and I was quite unafraid , interested to know what had happened . |
| 10 | On an excavation this means a need to know what had happened , by whom and when . |
| 11 | Some time elapsed and I finally telephoned Lord Weidenfeld , who was charged with the duty of collecting the money , to know what had happened . |
| 12 | He wanted to know what had happened , wanted to understand the dynamics of the situation and to store it away as part of his constantly changing , growing understanding of himself and of those around him . |
| 13 | My interest was in the players who had been forgotten — I simply wanted to know what had happened to people , ’ he said . |
| 14 | Sarah would be surprised to know what had happened to her picnic . |
| 15 | He had set people to follow her , and everywhere she went he would eventually turn up , demanding to know what had happened to the jade . |
| 16 | Um it 's also the case that um particularly round about that time there was an an idea that children were not competent enough to know what had happened to them , not competent enough to know their own minds . |
| 17 | He knew every inflection of the marquis 's voice and it was n't hard to guess what had happened . |
| 18 | It did not take long for Curtis to establish what had happened . |
| 19 | A spokeswoman said an investigation would be carried out in a bid to establish what had happened . |
| 20 | We had to wait for the police and the doctor to certify what had happened . |
| 21 | To discover what had gone wrong , a management team re-examined the processes by which decisions were made , and the way in which information flowed between the firm 's 300 employees . |
| 22 | In order to discover what had outshone me , I bought the book , but by page 25 had entirely lost my way ( Bernard Levin , I read , managed to get to page 29 ) . |
| 23 | The social workers and foster mothers who have worked with children abused in this way also have much to tell us , as Bea Campbell 's recent Channel 4 film demonstrated : not least that they too lived in fear whilst trying to discover what had happened to the children they were working with . |
| 24 | Hence an important tool of management whose common usefulness could be judged by the essential partners to collaboration failed to provide what had appeared to be promised — and one says " appeared " because it may have been the wish of some college managers not to allow information by which their efficiency might be judged to become available to other parties . |
| 25 | Then it occurred to him that there was no longer any reason to hide what had happened in the past ; he had nothing left to lose . |
| 26 | And if much that was done in those early days shocks us , we have to remember what had gone before was worse . |
| 27 | She began to remember what had happened . |
| 28 | He paused momentarily as he was forced to remember what had happened next . |
| 29 | She had n't wanted to discuss what had happened . |
| 30 | Bitterly ashamed of her failure to hold his love , she could n't bring herself to discuss what had happened with even her closest friends . |