Example sentences of "of [pron] happened to " in BNC.

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1 Daak was always the same : without reference to the-creed , colour , gender or opinions of whoever happened to be around , he was rude , randy , rebellious and always ready for a fight .
2 The following extract is taken from his account of what happened to a Japanese doctor , Dr Sasaki :
3 Herbert 's notes give only tantalizing hints of what happened to the other Jacobson children .
4 His explanation , in our 1985 conversation , of what happened to the DEA is typical too .
5 In His account of what happened to the rich man and Lazarus after they died ( Luke 16 verses 19/31 ) Jesus quoted the words spoken to the rich man in hell , by Abraham and in verses 29 and 31 we see Abraham referring to Moses and The Prophets and clearly he is speaking specifically of the scriptures attributed to them .
6 ‘ It is horrible to think of what happened to that poor , poor family . ’
7 ‘ I 've never held the view that the karate blow was the only explanation of what happened to Mr Lewis .
8 ‘ Tuesday was a down day because of what happened to Derek Redmond , Roger Black and Colin Jackson .
9 But it 's the story of how I did them , of what happened to me in doing them .
10 The second section , " Hiroshima 1945–1979 " , is a set of portraits of contributors to " Genboku no ko " ( Children of the Atomic Bombing ) , 186 accounts by children of what happened to them on 6 August 1945 .
11 You 'll be looking — admittedly without much hope — for the missing page of Lorrimer 's notebook , any evidence of what he was doing here last night apart from working on the clunch pit murder , any sign of what happened to the missing coat .
12 And the Journal 's not exactly a reliable record of what happened to him — or even when it happened .
13 Forensic science had no answer to the question of what happened to the timer after it was supplied to the Libyans by the Swiss , any more than it could say with certainty what happened to the Semtex plastic explosive after that was supplied to the Libyans by the Czechs .
14 ‘ It was not the cause of what happened to Nona . ’
15 The teachers ' accounts of what happened to them make disturbing reading .
16 He believed that human beings were born sociable , cooperative , altruistic , nice , civilized and that if , in later life , they showed anti-social selfish , criminal erm , egoistic tendencies , it was because of what happened to them after they were born .
17 We have heard on the television that there will be another and there are lots of people who are in , in absolute despair , because of what happened to their houses and their properties and their furniture and everything else and I think it is only right and proper and I can only say that West Sussex County Council has by so many people that it has
18 But the tales that were told were not only gruesome but frightening — in fact sickening is probably a better word — of what happened to you if the desert Arab got hold of you and handed you over to his womenfolk .
19 Geoff Walsh 's coat gives an idea of what happened to him .
20 If the safety message gets across … his little sister Hannah will grow up without the fear of what happened to her brother .
21 THE AGONY of what happened to her son is as acute for Joan McDermott today as it was 20 years ago .
22 It highlighted the pettiness of what happened to me recently .
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