Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] [vb past] happen [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had to accept what had happened to me in the past before I could even begin to accept the changes in my life . |
| 2 | As I was swept along by the noisy laughing crowd out into the tropical evening I persistently wanted to know what had happened to the dog . |
| 3 | Nobody seemed to know what had happened to the passengers . |
| 4 | He was curious to know what had happened to the condoms , the Bob Martin 's and the vibrator . |
| 5 | In October it demanded to know what had happened to the seventy-acre industrial site and the industrial training centre promised by Faulkner and Minister of Development William Craig , and in February 1966 the DUAC lobbied the House of Commons at Westminster , led by Finbar O'Doherty , who was at this time its London representative . |
| 6 | My interest was in the players who had been forgotten — I simply wanted to know what had happened to people , ’ he said . |
| 7 | Sarah would be surprised to know what had happened to her picnic . |
| 8 | He had set people to follow her , and everywhere she went he would eventually turn up , demanding to know what had happened to the jade . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ How Mr Chapman got to know what had happened in 12 hours is a mystery to some people , for he was in Huddersfield when the Liverpool deputation had bade goodnight to their hosts from Aberdeen . |
| 11 | The social workers and foster mothers who have worked with children abused in this way also have much to tell us , as Bea Campbell 's recent Channel 4 film demonstrated : not least that they too lived in fear whilst trying to discover what had happened to the children they were working with . |
| 12 | Then it occurred to him that there was no longer any reason to hide what had happened in the past ; he had nothing left to lose . |
| 13 | Bitterly ashamed of her failure to hold his love , she could n't bring herself to discuss what had happened with even her closest friends . |
| 14 | Even the compromises that were worked out in 1689 became a source of partisan divide , as rival groups came into conflict over just how to interpret what had happened at the Glorious Revolution . |
| 15 | Coming to a stop , she struggled to understand what had happened to her . |
| 16 | It was too calculated a word to describe what had happened between them . |
| 17 | ‘ We were beginning to think something had happened to you , especially when we kept ringing your flat and could n't get any reply . |
| 18 | Quinn , they would say , was standing still , having been overhauled by the main group but able to see what had happened up the road , shaking his head in disbelief and murmuring ‘ No … no … no . ’ |
| 19 | He would have liked to hurry off eastwards , towards Roxburgh , to endeavour to see what had happened to Murray , and to do what he could to help . |
| 20 | The two men groped their way back to the cabin , occasionally glancing back to see what had happened to the strange engine . |
| 21 | We went to the back , to the great stone pond , to see what had happened to the fish . |
| 22 | The driver , swearing loudly as his passengers picked themselves up from the floor and out of each other 's laps , opened the front door and jumped down to see what had happened to Adam . |
| 23 | Then we went to see what had happened to the rope round the tree and there was n't anything left , it had just gone . |
| 24 | Er but everybody in went down to see what had happened like , you know to see Woolworth 's . |
| 25 | She saw him in the wings just before she went on stage and she chose to ignore whatever had happened in the interval . |
| 26 | One of Brook 's first tasks when Churchill re-entered Downing Street was to explain what had happened to the Cabinet system since 1945 . |
| 27 | Caught off balance , Kate tried to keep her teetering emotions on an even keel as she strove to find the right words to explain what had happened in Jason 's office . |
| 28 | The use of the terms ‘ counter-revolution ’ and ‘ a turn to the Right ’ is therefore a trifle misleading and is certainly to misunderstand what had happened in Hollywood before 1933 . |
| 29 | So I went in person to enquire what had happened to it , and after several more weeks heard that a first edition of fifty thousand copies was being printed . |