Example sentences of "of what have [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The third stage back to health would need to be an attempt to make sense of what had happened to me and why . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Prepared as they were , the reality of what had happened to Famagusta struck silence from them all . |
| 8 | The authorities would think you 'd finally cracked under the pressure of what had happened to your family . |
| 9 | I was crying because of what had happened to both of us , which was so sad and pitiful . |
| 10 | As they ran , mentally counting down the seconds , both Benny and Ace 's thoughts were of what had happened to the Doctor . |
| 11 | Hugging his torso with one hand , his other gloved hand was braced on the floor in the knowledge of what had happened to Frye . |
| 12 | She wanted to make sense of what had happened to her , why her mother had n't wanted her . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | Almost as steadily he told Maxim of what had happened to Miss Tuckey . |
| 17 | After a while the pain of what had happened to her went away . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Sorry — problem 's a bit of a silly word to use in the light of what 's happened to you . ’ |
| 21 | The mystery of what 's happened to them . |
| 22 | But she 'll hit back at anyone around her , just because of what 's happened to her . |
| 23 | It 's because of what 's happened to them , in their lives , with the men they 've known . |
| 24 | ‘ Because of what 's happened to John ? ’ |
| 25 | But can you just give me , sort of , a brief overview of what 's happened to the composition of world trade right , say over the last hundred years or so . |
| 26 | It 's no wonder , of course , when you think of what 's happened to you , but if you do n't watch it you 're going to crack . |
| 27 | You know it 's a sort of what 's got to be has got to be in a sense I mean there 's no going back now there 's no surely finally every every strike is settled in the end and they 've got to come and talk . |
| 28 | In Acts we have two vivid descriptions of what has come to be called the communism of the early Church : ‘ All who believed were together and had all things in common ; and they sold their possessions and goods and distributed them to all , as any had need ’ ( Acts 2:44–5 ) ; and ‘ No one said that any of the things which he possessed was his own , but they had everything in common … |
| 29 | One other sideways bound was the creation of what has come to be called the police procedural . |
| 30 | Discourse analysts have for over a decade been probing the properties of what has come to be called the conversational ‘ turn ’ . |