Example sentences of "what [vb past] [vb pp] [prep] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | There must have been rumours of the dastardly deed at the hall as early as 1578 , for it was in that year that Sir Henry Knyvett ( another of Darrel 's antagonists ) wrote a letter to Sir John at Longleat , asking him to search out Mr Bonham and to enquire how many children his sister had and what had become of them . |
| 2 | I wanted to know where they came from and why : how they were treated ; and what had become of them . ’ |
| 3 | Lord in heaven , what had come between them all at once ? |
| 4 | They sat for a minute in silence as if what had passed between them needed to be assimilated in peace . |
| 5 | She had been deaf and blind to everything except what had passed between them . |
| 6 | Was this perhaps his way of trying to tell her that he deeply regretted what had passed between them ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Was he regretting what had happened between them ? |
| 9 | Despite what had happened between them , because it had been what she had wanted at the time and because Rune had been a generous and not over-demanding lover , and because she loved him , her own sense of self-esteem had remained whole . |
| 10 | Anything to avoid further reference to what had happened between them the previous evening ! |
| 11 | So far fitzAlan showed no sign of remembering what had happened between them , seeming to be concentrating all his formidable will on remaining upright . |
| 12 | It was too calculated a word to describe what had happened between them . |
| 13 | Still , she did n't think she could ever be comfortable with him , not after what had happened between them . |
| 14 | Later these two disciples themselves also confirmed the authorship of Moses when recounting what had happened to them . |
| 15 | I was too scared to admit to her what had happened to them , so I said Mrs Smith would tell her . |
| 16 | Against the Director 's advice , he 'd decided to despatch Sylvia into occupied France to try and discover what had happened to them . |
| 17 | I garden organically and use no chemicals , and so what had happened to them ? |
| 18 | She wondered whose it was and what had happened to them . |
| 19 | The Minister 's announcement — which again I welcome without qualification — comes six years after the Audit Commission 's report on care in the community , which in paragraph 28 highlighted the fact that then , six years ago , there were 37,000 fewer mentally ill and mentally handicapped patients than there were 10 years ago but that nobody knew where those who had been discharged were because nobody had done anything to find out what had happened to them . |
| 20 | John McCarthy , Terry Waite , Jackie Mann and spent time in a special unit where Dr Turnbull helped them come to terms with what had happened to them . |
| 21 | Um it 's also the case that um particularly round about that time there was an an idea that children were not competent enough to know what had happened to them , not competent enough to know their own minds . |