Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] what [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He told me a little about what happened to you in the States , ’ I encouraged . |
| 2 | What was really wrong with Eldorado was that nobody really cared much about what happened to the characters . |
| 3 | Noticing the creative/fantasy element in their talk , the teacher encouraged them , once the castle was finished , to make up a story together about what happened in the castle , while she wrote their ideas down for them . |
| 4 | For comparison purposes , there are fundamentally two choices , ie either the attainment levels can be assessed against an agreed target , or relative comparisons can be made , eg against what happened in the past if records are available , or what is happening at the start of the exercise compared with what happens at selected future points in time , effectively establishing better or worse levels , as summarised in Fig 13.6 . |
| 5 | Ace looked up from where she was starting to fit the parts together into what looked like a home-made machine gun . |
| 6 | These were jumbled together with what looked like pieces of electrical — or electronic — equipment , circuit boards , plasticised grips , LCD read-outs . |
| 7 | His hands were tightly bound together with what felt like bootlaces . |
| 8 | By contrast , policemen are interested only in what happened on one particular occasion in the past , which they are not able to recreate in laboratory conditions if only because they do not know what happened . |
| 9 | Anyway , Filmer and Daffodil left the races together in what looked like her own car , with a chauffeur . ’ |
| 10 | More likely is that she wrote down ( accurately ) the beginning , remembered the sound of the end , and linked them together in what seemed to her a possible sequence . |
| 11 | The workmanship was very fine , depicting a lioness and a vixen at ease together on what looked like a sleigh . |
| 12 | Nigel was on his knees brushing the soil away from what looked like a green glass bottle . |
| 13 | The mood of the crowd was turning to anger against those responsible for taking the children of South Ronaldsay away on what appeared to be very flimsy evidence , which had not been checked out through the appropriate channels . |
| 14 | However , the SPO 's electoral prospects apparently had been damaged by Draskovic 's earlier calls , much toned down during the campaign , for redrawing Serbia 's borders to include parts of Bosnia-Hercegovina and Croatia : many voters were frightened away by what sounded like a call for civil war . |
| 15 | All the same , he should have thought a great deal more about what lay behind the exhibits . |
| 16 | But we now know more about what happened between June and October , and beyond . |
| 17 | Unfortunately , the price of cattle fell from £5 a head to £1 a head shortly after this arrangement was made , and the Masai found themselves being asked to pay more and more for what seemed to them to be less and less — for some of the waterworks had already begun to fail . |
| 18 | His warning was disclosed yesterday in what appeared to be an amazing blunder by Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd . |
| 19 | A BOMB damaged five tourist buses outside the Egyptian Museum in central Cairo yesterday in what appeared to be a new attack by Muslim militants fighting to overthrow the government . |
| 20 | Now a day 's residue is some association which relates the manifest content usually to what happened to you that day , and often i they 're very oft it 's often that the day 's residue is built into the manifest dream , so it 's quite obvious , you had this dream because of something that happened to you on that day . |
| 21 | But Mr Vadim Medvedev also indicated there were no plans to set the record straight about what happened at the December 9 meeting of the Central Committee — which was by all accounts a turbulent one — by publishing the minutes . |
| 22 | This was due not only to economies of scale but also to what came to be known as the experience curve . |
| 23 | However , assuming it is , then we must look very carefully at what happened to your mother . |
| 24 | Small clients handled roughly from what sounded like a hectic dealing room got turned on by the apparent professionalism of it all , and often allowed themselves to be persuaded into buying almost worthless over the counter ( OTC ) shares . |
| 25 | There on the green plateau , glistening in the sunshine , was a collection of various types of aircraft , mainly in what appeared to be first class condition . |
| 26 | After he had taken two large brandies , very fast ( too fast for what looked like a very fine marque ) , he led her over to the sofa and sitting beside her , put his arm around her . |
| 27 | ‘ It is now about five years since this all started and it has been quite stressful but I feel pretty strongly about what happened to me and my child and I am determined to see it through . |
| 28 | The summary way in which teacher education was disposed of at Barry also contrasts strongly with what happened in North East Wales : here , there was much lobbying to prevent teacher training based on Cartrefle College of Education , now merged into the North East Wales Institute of Higher Education , from contracting further ; it is indeed ironical that on the same day , 26 July 1977 , that Gordon Oakes , Minister of State at the DES , declared that Cartrefle should be spared the axe , predominantly on the basis of its geographical location , he should pronounce a death sentence at Barry . |
| 29 | Squawking madly in what appeared to be a family squabble over the direction they should take , they suddenly closed ranks , as if by order , and formed a perfect vee behind their leader . |
| 30 | I lay there for what seemed like an eternity and feeling in a sort of panic . |