Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [Wh det] had happen to " in BNC.
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| 1 | So they sat wrapped in their own morbid silences , each harbouring his own private fear about what had happened to the village and how it could happen to them . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Dr Neil knew that she was speaking the truth about what had happened to her . |
| 4 | Hugging his torso with one hand , his other gloved hand was braced on the floor in the knowledge of what had happened to Frye . |
| 5 | Despite my anger and despair at what had happened to Brian , killing myself now would n't make amends for not helping him . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The third stage back to health would need to be an attempt to make sense of what had happened to me and why . |
| 9 | She wanted to make sense of what had happened to her , why her mother had n't wanted her . |
| 10 | The Levi who emerged from a regime of cruelty and humiliation with his judgement intact , his mind not closed , neither vengeful nor forgetful , and who wrote a noble and rational book about what had happened to him , is mentioned only cursorily and as if concessively by Fernanda Eberstadt . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Prepared as they were , the reality of what had happened to Famagusta struck silence from them all . |
| 13 | The authorities would think you 'd finally cracked under the pressure of what had happened to your family . |
| 14 | She spent two days recovering , expressed shock and horror at what had happened to me , then got on her bike and roared off . |
| 15 | Trent had no doubt that Miguelito would kill him and enjoy doing so — revenge for whatever had happened to him in a US jail and for the gringo widow-woman having put him there . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Almost as steadily he told Maxim of what had happened to Miss Tuckey . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | After a while the pain of what had happened to her went away . |
| 21 | 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 . |