Example sentences of "[prep] [Wh det] [vb past] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You mean that even after what had happened to you , you never questioned your faith ? ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He reflected on the options which had been open to him , one of which had led to his downfall . |
| 4 | ( 18 January 1775 ) The Mozarts eventually left Munich and arrived back in Salzburg on 7 March 1775 , Mozart 's opera having been performed only three times ( the last of which had had to be cut as the seconda donna was ill ) . |
| 5 | All of which had had to be bottled up during a frustrating day . |
| 6 | Previously active in the southern department of Cauca , it became the fourth guerrilla group to give up the armed struggle following the example of the M-19 [ see p. 37311 ] , the People 's Liberation Army ( EPL ) and the Workers ' Revolutionary Party ( PRT ) [ see p. 38094 ] , each of which had returned to mainstream politics . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The third stage back to health would need to be an attempt to make sense of what had happened to me and why . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Prepared as they were , the reality of what had happened to Famagusta struck silence from them all . |
| 14 | The authorities would think you 'd finally cracked under the pressure of what had happened to your family . |
| 15 | I was crying because of what had happened to both of us , which was so sad and pitiful . |
| 16 | As they ran , mentally counting down the seconds , both Benny and Ace 's thoughts were of what had happened to the Doctor . |
| 17 | Hugging his torso with one hand , his other gloved hand was braced on the floor in the knowledge of what had happened to Frye . |
| 18 | She wanted to make sense of what had happened to her , why her mother had n't wanted her . |
| 19 | And , because of what had happened to his father , honesty and integrity were of far greater importance to him than to many businessmen she had worked for . |
| 20 | All the months which Sally-Anne Tunstall had spent trying to erase the memory of what had happened to her , her refusal to remember any part of it , were as nothing . |
| 21 | Some gentle lovemaking on this first occasion to prove to her that she was not repulsive to him because of what had happened to her , and that all men were not brutes , was in order . |
| 22 | Almost as steadily he told Maxim of what had happened to Miss Tuckey . |
| 23 | After a while the pain of what had happened to her went away . |
| 24 | In addition to the memory of what had happened to the established Church during the 1640s and 1650s , the repeated reports of Nonconformist plots ( both alleged and real ) against the government in Church and State from the 1660s onwards encouraged a belief in the need for constant vigilance against a subversive Nonconformist threat . |
| 25 | We read the , read the agreements differently to what they did but he 'd lean towards the drivers , conductors and he gave away a lot of what had tried to erm stop them from having because they were n't really entitled to it but he saw differently and gave it away and course once you 've given it away you , no way of retracting it , but then came in and , well , I mean he was a real transport man , his , his vision and his ideas were really good and he made it what it is today . |
| 26 | But while Francis and Mary fussed about the situation in Edinburgh , setting up an enquiry into what had happened to the burgh council , in February 1560 the Protestant lords did something ideologically much less courageous than their deposition of the regent , but in practical terms infinitely more crucial : they made the Treaty of Berwick with England , and were assured of English help . |
| 27 | It is probable that the actual idea was the synthesis of discussions , but it was the one that Stirling adopted , starting a fruitful partnership with what became known to L Detachment as ‘ The Desert Taxi Service ’ . |
| 28 | They were not too concerned with what had happened to a couple of whores in Paris over ten years ago , or even the other matter . |
| 29 | At the time of writing I was too taken up with the present to make any but the vaguest connection with what had happened to me in the past . |
| 30 | John McCarthy , Terry Waite , Jackie Mann and spent time in a special unit where Dr Turnbull helped them come to terms with what had happened to them . |