Example sentences of "what [adv] happened " in BNC.
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| 61 | Then you ask how it might have come about that the murderer made that mistake , and already , when eventually you tell of this from the other end , from the discovery of the corpse , you have got something that will require a reader to make a lateral jump to see what really happened . |
| 62 | Suppose the police were to find out what really happened to Izzy Kleiber ? ’ |
| 63 | And which is different for today , but that that was what really happened . |
| 64 | You know what really happened . ’ |
| 65 | I think what really happened then [ the third time ] there was a sort of crackling in the noises as if someone was falling down . |
| 66 | Tell me what really happened . ’ |
| 67 | And as with all things that elude description , they get exaggerated until , in the end , no-one can be quite sure what really happened . |
| 68 | ‘ On what really happened at Profitis Ilias on the eleventh of November . |
| 69 | I do n't know what really happened for I had my eyes closed , lashing out with my sword , whilst my horse , who had more courage than brains , took care of itself . |
| 70 | When something like a murder happens , I just feel I have to sort out what really happened . |
| 71 | ‘ What really happened that day , then ? ’ |
| 72 | As well might I have risen and said , ‘ I will tell you what really happened , for this trial and the real issues involved will one day become the subject of a great novel , and I am a man from two centuries into your future who read that book as a lad … ’ |
| 73 | But the Shelby County Commission has been pressing for an investigation since the 1991 book The Death of Elvis : What Really Happened , quoted doctors as saying Presley died of a drug overdose . |
| 74 | What really happened that deranged you ? |
| 75 | But with Wimpol on board the Commission may shortly be in a position to announce what really happened . |
| 76 | We 'll never know what really happened but I think the KGB got what they wanted — the English couple and their car . |
| 77 | ‘ What really happened afterwards at Studley Constable . |
| 78 | What really happened at that battle ? |
| 79 | Compared to what really happened that they were liberated . |
| 80 | So it 's an attempt on , on , on the second level to minutely reconstructing historical , the lost , the truest but what really happened and in that on that level , it 's important for Freud to establish that Moses was not Jewish but Egyptian , because this gives him the link with Egyptian monarchism and the events of the exodus and explains it as well . |
| 81 | And so what he 's trying to do is to as Andrea says erm uncover the truth , get to the , get to what really happened as it were , under the layers of myth and distortion could have been introduced in the Bible story , and as I said if you read the book erm and it is quite fascinating in many ways , it is a bit like a detective story because what Freud does is he tries to get to the truth by analyzing the , the actual texts and the texts contains discrepancies and anybody who 's ever tried to erm edit a book , learns this to their cost actually , but er you find no matter how carefully you change things , there 's usually things you miss , little discrepancies that give away how it was the first time and er Freud 's view is this , this has happened very much to the Bible , it 's been so heavily edited and re-written and later the the various editings show and if you read it very critically , you can begin to see perhaps the underlying pattern er coming through and erm just as you can tell for instance by reading Genesis , that it 's a of two accounts because there are two stories , the first story is Chapter One of Genesis , then in Chapter Three or something there 's a second story repeats it with variations . |
| 82 | And when we talk later I 'll explain what really happened , and it wo n't be in the way he put it , ’ and with similar emphasis she turned the key ; but then allowed the car to glide forward . |
| 83 | Is there a difference between the evidence given in court and what really happened ? |
| 84 | It looked a scrappy goal , but slightly better once I had seen what really happened on the telly . |
| 85 | ‘ I ca n't sleep without telling you what really happened . ’ |
| 86 | Unless all that was just a dream , after all , and nothing to do with what really happened . ’ |
| 87 | The families of British soldiers killed by the American airforce in the Gulf War have won the first stage of their bid to find out what really happened . |
| 88 | More money may yet be found , but so complex is the investigation that what really happened to all of the cash may never be discovered . |
| 89 | However , he said , even a cursory look at the figures showed that what really happened was not so much that Scotland had gained but the rest of the country was now becoming stuck in the kind of economic mess that Scotland had endured since 1979 . |
| 90 | The shops , launderette , barber 's and butcher 's — with their mesh grilles on the windows — are full of theories on what really happened . |