Example sentences of "and what [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | If you are starting from scratch , or just , decide what has to be bought and what improvised in the way of seating . |
| 2 | What gave rise to the protest of the intelligentsia , and what lay behind the revolutionary protest of its extreme wing , was the lack of opportunity afforded them by tsarist society . |
| 3 | Models are not the real thing , and what looked like the something from the future world of Dan Dare on the cover of the new Eagle comic was to be and feel quite a different slab of concrete . |
| 4 | Masklin could see a curtain , and what looked like the edge of a chair . |
| 5 | Dalgliesh glimpsed the ornate red-brick front of the local chapel , one or two prosperous-looking houses with Dutch gables , a small close of recently built , semi-detached boxes with the developer 's board still in place , and what looked like the village general store and post office . |
| 6 | To the side of the sink , under the draining-board , were half-empty sacks and bags which contained cereals , wood shavings and what looked like the sort of seeds you feed to birds rather than the ones you roll with tobacco . |
| 7 | Buried beneath a fretwork of ancient planks , polythene sacks , and what looked like the treadle off a sewing machine , she saw a scruffy hessian-wrapped parcel . |
| 8 | And what became of the caretaker 's bitch ? |
| 9 | Humans clomped slowly around the train and what remained of the truck . |
| 10 | Last month , Mr Rocard caused a great frisson of excitement to run through the deeply-dejected Socialist ranks by calling for a political ‘ big bang ’ to allow the creation of a new centre left movement consisting of progressive-minded Communists , Ecologists , Centrists and what remained of the Socialists . |
| 11 | And what emerged from the response to the article is that reincarnation is no longer seen as the domain of cranks and weirdos . |
| 12 | And what happened at the changeover , did they just fire you all and then reinstate you ? |
| 13 | And what happened to the seal ? |
| 14 | ‘ And what happened to the real nun who left Gascony ? ’ |
| 15 | She must wait months , if not years , for an interview with an Entry Clearance Officer at a British diplomatic mission on the Indian subcontinent , go through endless interrogations about such subjects as the colour of the family 's goat or the number of rooms in the house she lives in or how many guests there were at the wedding and what happened on the wedding night . |
| 16 | Movies were life and reality , and what happened in the murderous streets an absurd nightmare . |
| 17 | And what happened in the forest outside Godstowe ? |
| 18 | Most of the lights in the underpass had been kicked out and what showed of the green and white tiling had been generously sprayed with graffiti , Hendrix and Are Gay Militants Limp Fisted ? |