Example sentences of "[adv] [Wh det] [vb past] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was the attempt to do so which had provoked the upheaval of 1905–6 . |
| 2 | Berndt said , as though it were his incisive wit alone which had arrived at the nub , ‘ The question is , what do we do with her in the meantime ? |
| 3 | Perhaps what had passed had made her see more clearly her real feelings for me . |
| 4 | So whatever happened to Open Standards ? |
| 5 | She wondered idly what had prompted the Italian 's hatred . |
| 6 | But the almost mesmeric brilliance of Severiano Ballesteros first of all broke down what had appeared to be insurmountable barriers and then allowed him to charge through the gaps , devastating anything in his path . |
| 7 | After that implementation was complete the firm was forced to scale down what had grown into a moderately large development organisation , and retreated from view somewhat , concentrating on customising software , testing and consultancy . |
| 8 | But there , from any notes , she felt that she could piece together what had taken place . |
| 9 | So what had gone wrong ? |
| 10 | So what had woken her ? |
| 11 | I garden organically and use no chemicals , and so what had happened to them ? |
| 12 | So what DID happen to those Russian stars ? |
| 13 | So what did happen to the King ? ’ |
| 14 | Robert 's mother Ann , 39 , was devastated when her son returned , accompanied by the police , and she realised not only what had happened , but what could have happened . |
| 15 | The piece was written in good taste but could n't help but leave the reader wondering just what had made Morrissey so paranoid . |
| 16 | Within days Hadley Cantril and a team of psychologists from Princeton University were interviewing listeners to see just what had made them so convinced and , in many cases , so panic stricken . |
| 17 | Fatima Zamzam , for example , knew just what had happened to her home and lands . |
| 18 | It is not known whether Lady Tynte investigated just what had happened to the bird 's genitalia but subsequent studies of female pheasants showing similar transvestite tendencies revealed that only sexual differences developing at or after puberty were affected and that the reproductive organs themselves remained unaltered ( Yarrell , 1827 ) . |
| 19 | And I told Vladimir Semenovich just what had happened . |
| 20 | Otherwise it might have occurred to her to wonder just what had happened since her arrival in London to so raise her jaundiced opinion of the whole male sex … |
| 21 | Rachel thought how lovely she looked , then found herself wondering just what had happened the previous night between her sister and David — a couple who had once meant the world to each other . |
| 22 | It was just what United needed and it rattled Leicester who in recent weeks have been the most successful team in the table . |
| 23 | I 'd like to know just what did happen when Hatton 's lorry was hi-jacked on the 15th of Marchand if they 've got any McCloys in their district . ’ |
| 24 | In John Donne 's terms , they had acknowledged each other as ‘ one another 's best ’ , but ‘ saw not what did move ’ . |
| 25 | For the hundredth time I cursed Benjamin and wondered desperately what had happened to him . |
| 26 | He had known right away what had happened . |
| 27 | ‘ The trouble was we did n't know until it was too late exactly what had hit him . ’ |
| 28 | She found it hard to remember with any precision exactly what had happened next . |
| 29 | Only when Bert Rafferty was called to give evidence did Harriet Tremayne show any sign of breaking down , as she listened for the first time to his description of exactly what had happened on that harrowing morning . |
| 30 | ‘ The girl was very distressed and took some time to tell us exactly what had happened . |