Example sentences of "of what have [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Indeed , once I was congratulated by a local town councillor in Holyhead for having such sensible ideas , when all I had done was repeat , at irregular intervals , fragments of what had emerged from the councillor 's own monologue . |
| 2 | What they had given each other , dramatic though it had become at the end , had been the inevitable physical manifestation of what had happened between them weeks earlier . |
| 3 | The rest of the afternoon had been more or less normal for the time of year except that Ted had been following Pete around for most of it , trying to pump him for details of what had happened between him and Diane Jackson . |
| 4 | However , because of what had happened during the last few days , she knew she could not simply let this matter fade from her mind . |
| 5 | In a telegram which he sent to Bismarck , which he authorized his Minister to publish , the King gave an account of what had happened at Ems . |
| 6 | But in spite of what had happened at the fashion show she did not think Paula had any hand in it until next day at breakfast . |
| 7 | I thought it right to apprise Cyril of what had happened at Muirfield , but having corresponded with the Seniors secretary , he assured me I was on course for election . |
| 8 | He 'd at first said , ‘ wild flowers ’ , but I reminded him of what had happened at Caroline 's wedding . |
| 9 | In a wider sense , however , the real significance of what had happened at Bleiburg on 15 May was that it was the last major surrender of the European war . |
| 10 | But neither he nor Maisie , as far as he knew , had spoken of what had happened at Hasan 's Occultation . |
| 11 | Next we knew , we must take the road which led to Cherbourg , where we hoped to find out more of what had happened on that tragic occasion — and we were soon on our way to the Château de la Brehouse at St Pierre Eglise , where we were to spend the night . |
| 12 | She was thinking of what had happened on the train . |
| 13 | P.C. Clifford and the other policeman got into the car again and drove across the bridge to its junction with Queen Street on the City bank , giving a brief report of what had happened on the radio telephone before leaving the car . |
| 14 | Uncomfortable memories of what had happened on his last visit to the Mar Girgis flooded into Owen 's mind . |
| 15 | But she would be surprised , Ruth thought — astounded , horrified — if she knew what other thoughts raced in her young servant 's mind , if she could catch a glimpse of the vivid memories of what had happened with Dick Parker . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The third stage back to health would need to be an attempt to make sense of what had happened to me and why . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Prepared as they were , the reality of what had happened to Famagusta struck silence from them all . |
| 23 | The authorities would think you 'd finally cracked under the pressure of what had happened to your family . |
| 24 | I was crying because of what had happened to both of us , which was so sad and pitiful . |
| 25 | As they ran , mentally counting down the seconds , both Benny and Ace 's thoughts were of what had happened to the Doctor . |
| 26 | Hugging his torso with one hand , his other gloved hand was braced on the floor in the knowledge of what had happened to Frye . |
| 27 | She wanted to make sense of what had happened to her , why her mother had n't wanted her . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |