Example sentences of "[to-vb] [pron] happened to [noun prp] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ Do n't you want to know what happened to Phena ? ’ he asked softly .
2 He would like to know what happened to Claudia and her books .
3 He had told Alicia Lockwood bluntly that she could not hope to dictate what happened to Moorlake beyond the grave .
4 We have only to consider what happened to East Germany and ask what was the underlying reason for secession from the Warsaw pact and reunification with West Germany .
5 He would wait , he would wait to see what happened to Kurz .
6 So , wrote Harsnet , there is continuity as well as discontinuity , but that does not mean , he wrote , that there exists what is called character , personality , character , Goldberg wrote in the margin , personality , as they seem to think , wrote Harsnet ( and Goldberg went on typing ) , when they say you have such a generous character if you would only recognize it , or you have so much to offer , or it is not for myself I speak but for you , not for myself I mourn but for the waste of all that generosity , when they pour those words over you , character , generosity , warmth , looking sad , shedding tears , putting on a brave face , saying do n't pay any attention to me , or , it 's nothing , forget it , I 'm crying for the waste , meaning waste if it 's not directed towards them , but you have only to see what happens when one lets oneself be persuaded by that sort of thing , wrote Harsnet , you have only to see what happened to Hutchinson , MacMahon , Rollins and Goldberg .
7 It is n't as though I could tell you anything that would help to explain what happened to Matt . ’
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