Example sentences of "what [verb] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 're used to be one , one of them what got killed used to , he used to ride his bike up and down the path here and sh , as start , he 'd get on his bike , she 'd run down to that bush down there and then get there before him and then , soon as he start to come back he was running back and beat him ! |
| 2 | At about the same time , 1926 to be exact , Walter Cocking produced what became known as Everyman Four receiver , originally called Everyman 's Four-valve , one of which is now in the Science Museum . |
| 3 | In September 1976 when — as this week — Blackpool 's Winter Gardens played host to a government in turmoil , James Callaghan and Denis Healey had to confront what became known as the IMF crisis . |
| 4 | At the 1989 Annual Conference in Bournemouth it was resolved to support the RAF Benevolent Fund 's 50th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain Appeal , and Branches were asked to provide support at local level for what became known as the ‘ Reach for the Sky ’ Appeal . |
| 5 | Baldwin fought what became known as a ‘ Safety First ’ campaign . |
| 6 | At the culmination of what became known as the ‘ Eggwina ’ crisis , she infuriated egg producers by claiming that most British egg production was infected by salmonella . |
| 7 | Some evidence that this must have happened along the Chiswick banks of the river , was uncovered during the construction of the London & South Western railway line , in the nineteenth century , which involved the need to make a deep cutting not far from what became known as Gunnersbury Station . |
| 8 | The old monastic sites along the Twyver later came to be known as Barnwood , Court Farm , Fishers , Woods , Browns , Morins and Abbey Mills , the latter adjacent to the Cathedral , in what became known as Millers Green . |
| 9 | Pro-Hashemite figures were quickly installed in key positions in what became known as ‘ the West Bank ’ . |
| 10 | Finally he perfected what became known as the Lewes bomb , and a demonstration was arranged before an invited audience , including the senior Royal Engineer . |
| 11 | It is probable that the actual idea was the synthesis of discussions , but it was the one that Stirling adopted , starting a fruitful partnership with what became known to L Detachment as ‘ The Desert Taxi Service ’ . |
| 12 | Stirling sent his men from Siwa back to Kabrit and he himself made for Cairo , where he arrived in the midst of what became known as ‘ The Flap ’ . |
| 13 | What became known as the First Series was published by Macrone in two volumes in Feb. 1836 with 16 illustrations by Cruikshank . |
| 14 | Some will still recall the warm fire at the far end of what became known as the Primary Room and the tiny wooden chairs which allowed small feet almost to reach the ground . |
| 15 | The words ‘ or other record ’ became crucial with the growth of the video industry , when the ‘ deprave and corrupt ’ test was used with great effect to stem the tide of what became known as ‘ video nasties ’ , where viewing in private was no defence . |
| 16 | It was the foundation of what became known as ‘ socio-technical systems theory ’ and had a direct influence on the Scandinavian experiments in work organisation , of which the SAAB and Volvo cases described in Chapter 5 are just two examples . |
| 17 | During the 1960s , and what became known as the ‘ permissive society ’ , it was perhaps sexuality that became the dominant form of hedonism . |
| 18 | In what became known as the ‘ City trial of the century ’ , Saunders received the longest prison sentence of five years . |
| 19 | The debate went onto the streets in what became known as the ‘ Democracy Wall ’ movement . |
| 20 | This airframe was the founder member of what became known as the National Aeronautical Collection ( NAC ) and the bulk of the airframes presented in the new gallery are from that grouping . |
| 21 | Some supporters of what became known as the free produce movement none the less had earlier experience of boycotting West Indian rum and sugar . |
| 22 | The arguments were fleshed out by the foreign Minister , Selwyn Lloyd , at a NATO Council meeting in December , where he introduced proposals for what became known as the Grand Design . |
| 23 | In mid-January 1915 China was presented with what became known as the ‘ Twenty One Demands ’ , a call for China to make certain economic , political and military concessions . |
| 24 | What became known as the Naythuyein Mass Meeting heard Aung San speak about the Burmese contribution to the Allied cause ; he saw Labour 's victory as a sign that imperialism was on the way out and he affirmed that ‘ 99 per cent of the PBF would be unwilling to serve in the fighting forces of a country that was not free ’ . |
| 25 | The major developments in the twentieth century involved an eastward shift and the opening up of a number of large , highly productive pits in what became known as the Dukeries field . |
| 26 | In Liverpool the tensions generated resulted in the deployment of extra imported police who , at a demonstration on 13 August , charged the crowd on what became known as " Bloody Sunday " an incident which is remembered to this day . |
| 27 | On 6 April the USA declared war on Germany and on the following 8 May a conference was held between the US Shipping Board , the US Steamship Owners and the US International Seamen 's Union which resulted in what became known as the " Atlantic Agreement " which laid down manning levels , wages and bonuses . |
| 28 | Once the bill of lading became an abstract document , it conveyed to a good faith holder what became known as a ‘ mercantile ’ title to the goods — the lawful holder of the bill of lading acquired a better right to the possession of the goods than his transferor . |
| 29 | The first major step towards what became known as ‘ detente ’ was probably the Partial Test Ban Treaty , signed by Britain , the USA , the USSR and eventually 103 other nations ( but not China or France ) in 1963 . |
| 30 | Thus there was little incentive to overcome the second factor , namely that Moscow 's early view of Latin America was governed by what became known as the law of ‘ geographical fatalism ’ . |