Example sentences of "[prep] [pron] [vb past] happen [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , after what had happened with Mr Bishop , she had become even more convinced of this . |
| 2 | As the plan now called for Jafaar and Hamadan to meet Younis in Cyprus before consummating their phony drug deal aboard Saunk Kilo , and as close electronic monitoring of their conversations would be essential to avoid last-minute surprises , Hurley was determined not to risk a breakdown in surveillance , after what had happened with the boat . |
| 3 | ‘ You mean that even after what had happened to you , you never questioned your faith ? ’ |
| 4 | There had been genuine fear on some of those people 's faces when she had mentioned Martin 's name , a fear she could appreciate after what had happened to her last night , but it had n't shaken her determination to get to the bottom of the story . |
| 5 | Still , she did n't think she could ever be comfortable with him , not after what had happened between them . |
| 6 | Her father , after what had happened in front of the telly that evening , was first on her list . |
| 7 | She could n't simply go on as before , not after what had happened in the hotel 's restaurant . |
| 8 | I was afraid to go into the house after what had happened in the village , so I hid in the hut . |
| 9 | What they had given each other , dramatic though it had become at the end , had been the inevitable physical manifestation of what had happened between them weeks earlier . |
| 10 | The rest of the afternoon had been more or less normal for the time of year except that Ted had been following Pete around for most of it , trying to pump him for details of what had happened between him and Diane Jackson . |
| 11 | However , because of what had happened during the last few days , she knew she could not simply let this matter fade from her mind . |
| 12 | In a telegram which he sent to Bismarck , which he authorized his Minister to publish , the King gave an account of what had happened at Ems . |
| 13 | But in spite of what had happened at the fashion show she did not think Paula had any hand in it until next day at breakfast . |
| 14 | I thought it right to apprise Cyril of what had happened at Muirfield , but having corresponded with the Seniors secretary , he assured me I was on course for election . |
| 15 | He 'd at first said , ‘ wild flowers ’ , but I reminded him of what had happened at Caroline 's wedding . |
| 16 | In a wider sense , however , the real significance of what had happened at Bleiburg on 15 May was that it was the last major surrender of the European war . |
| 17 | But neither he nor Maisie , as far as he knew , had spoken of what had happened at Hasan 's Occultation . |
| 18 | Next we knew , we must take the road which led to Cherbourg , where we hoped to find out more of what had happened on that tragic occasion — and we were soon on our way to the Château de la Brehouse at St Pierre Eglise , where we were to spend the night . |
| 19 | She was thinking of what had happened on the train . |
| 20 | P.C. Clifford and the other policeman got into the car again and drove across the bridge to its junction with Queen Street on the City bank , giving a brief report of what had happened on the radio telephone before leaving the car . |
| 21 | Uncomfortable memories of what had happened on his last visit to the Mar Girgis flooded into Owen 's mind . |
| 22 | But she would be surprised , Ruth thought — astounded , horrified — if she knew what other thoughts raced in her young servant 's mind , if she could catch a glimpse of the vivid memories of what had happened with Dick Parker . |
| 23 | The conversation was wide-ranging , but gradually I told her the full story of what had happened to me over the previous year or so . |
| 24 | In the build up to her first ever world tour , the now seasoned campaigner decided it was time to kill the cutesy girl-next-door and reflect the reality of what had happened to her over the previous two years . |
| 25 | He had plenty of tales of what had happened to others , though ; the most gruesome being a double-headed story about an American tourist who had refused to pay a taxi driver 's extortionate rates . |
| 26 | The third stage back to health would need to be an attempt to make sense of what had happened to me and why . |
| 27 | When we left Baghdad , there was no further news of what had happened to those on board , except that the ship had been forced to unload its cargo in the port of Kabbous , Oman . |
| 28 | Lord Hunt , at the time a young official in the Dominions Office , offered a similar interpretation in his 1983 survey of what had happened to Cabinet government since Lloyd George and Hankey invented it in its modern form . |
| 29 | Prepared as they were , the reality of what had happened to Famagusta struck silence from them all . |
| 30 | The authorities would think you 'd finally cracked under the pressure of what had happened to your family . |