Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] [Wh det] [vb past] to " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | His warning was disclosed yesterday in what appeared to be an amazing blunder by Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Lord Greene M.R. 's distinction between purpose and relevancy both of which went to the scope of the discretionary power , and his substantive sense of unreasonableness , are said to be less clear and useful expressions of the same idea . |
| 10 | This was due not only to economies of scale but also to what came to be known as the experience curve . |
| 11 | However , assuming it is , then we must look very carefully at what happened to your mother . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Several times they set out to make their way across by what seemed to be a path but each time they were forced to stop . |
| 16 | Those in his own party who have an ulterior motive in seeing the Government defeated over Maastricht have had their doubts about his leadership confirmed , not least by what appeared to be three conflicting government lines within one week and the belated admission that Parliament is a spectator rather than a player in the game . |
| 17 | She has found , though , that by writing so closely about what happened to her she has , in a way , lost some of her own past . |
| 18 | ‘ One member of staff left for a moment and a man in his mid-30s appeared out of nowhere with what appeared to be a gun and pushed it into the other assistant 's ribs and asked for the money . |
| 19 | Wycliffe looked closely at what appeared to be scorch marks on the collar where the blood had caked most thickly . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , it was achieved , not by the creation of a new theory , but rather by what amounted to an inspired piece of tinkering with classical physics . |
| 21 | There were many stories afterwards of what appeared to be gratuitous police violence . |