Example sentences of "[Wh det] happened to " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result the peasant gathering ( skhod ) which happened to be scheduled then assembled an unusually high number of villagers . |
| 2 | There was an especially rapid growth of the textile industry in these towns which happened to be on the coalfield where the cost of transporting fuel was small . |
| 3 | The one major event which happened to me at Binbrook , and which was going to change my life , was that I met the man I was eventually to marry , although a lot of water would flow under the bridge before the wedding took place . |
| 4 | So we entered a genteel teashoppe/cafe which happened to be handy and ordered coffee , as so often before . |
| 5 | She tried hooking her fingers round the door and pulling , but he only laughed and grabbing her , dragged her to him , kissing the part nearest his face , which happened to be the base of her neck . |
| 6 | Detective Sergeant Brian Jackson was driving through the more prosperous part of Long Eaton , a village on the outskirts of Nottingham which happened to be just over the Derbyshire border . |
| 7 | She did not actually concentrate on the birds which happened to be there , nor did she feel any desire to feel them or encourage them to come near her — but she was quite able to relax knowing that they were there in the background . |
| 8 | We took a book from a shelf , which happened to be a gardening book . |
| 9 | I spent the rest of 20th February , which happened to be my fortieth birthday , taking the girl students back to their homes in and around Rangoon . |
| 10 | ‘ Which happened to be my train , ’ the tall blonde offered uneasily , ‘ already two hours late from Plymouth . ’ |
| 11 | If a club is relegated — which happened to one of them in 1990 — the shares will fall steeply in value . |
| 12 | Unfortunately she made a mistake of naming the church where Jesus was found as St George 's , which happened to be a Church of England edifice . |
| 13 | In 1795–6 , for example , the member of parliament for the county of Angus found himself much concerned with the fate of a piece of crown land which happened to be situated within the plantation lands in the island of St Vincent belonging to Patrick Cruickshank of Stracathro , one of the Angus freeholders . |
| 14 | Over the past two centuries the ships employed have ranged from totally unsuitable ones , which happened to be available at the time , to , less commonly , purpose-built vessels incorporating the most sophisticated technology of the day . ’ |
| 15 | He was brilliant at his job , which happened to be organising a PR set-up in the army . |
| 16 | In the Asturias a mob of a thousand peasants and university students , after pillaging the arsenal of its rifles , made an end of the hesitations of the Audiencia and the constituted authorities , who were afraid to defy Murat ; the general assembly of the province , which happened to be holding one of its triennial meetings , took the leadership of the insurrection , and , on 25 May , declared war on Napoleon . |
| 17 | He was a shy , lonely man who married the nearest thing to hand , which happened to be Nancy , the entertaining redhead who looked after his fingernails in the barber 's shop at the Dorchester . |
| 18 | One of my colonies of mushroom polyps , reddish brown specimens which I think are a Ricordea species , killed a bushy sea whip ( Plexaurelia ) which happened to be so close as to come into contact , when it deflated . |
| 19 | Now when those people in Parliament are absent , by their silence , they may be there , you do n't always see 'em , you then get a bit annoyed , but I tell you , you get bloody annoyed when they walk past you , which happened to me and to the regional delegates at Lancashire North West Labour Party , I wo n't name who they are , but they did n't even acknowledge us . |
| 20 | The only way that Father could do this was by giving his son the head of the first living creature he met , which happened to be an elephant . |
| 21 | He was well-aware of the sense in which he made up what happened to him , imagined his misfortune . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | ‘ So what happened to you ? ’ |
| 24 | What happened to Simon ? ’ |
| 25 | This begs the question , what happened to the British Tennis Supporters Club ? |
| 26 | What happened to their Electra branding , by the way ? |
| 27 | What happened to Ben Cartwright , Hoss and Little Joe ? |
| 28 | But the big surprise was what happened to the Araglin 's brown trout population . |
| 29 | What happened to Malcolm Beavers has upset a lot of policemen . ’ |
| 30 | In similar vein , Stan Twigg , of Wigan , asked what happened to the wartime personnel of 105 Squadron . |