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Example sentences for "what happened"

  • I am particular about Mr. Bailey, because he was a prominent figure in what happened later.

  • In fact, in the light of what happened afterward, I am pretty certain we were under surveillance during the entire ghostly evening.

  • Halsey spent part of the day with Mr. Jamieson, but he said nothing of what happened.

  • It will be noted at the outset that the whole of the fantastic picture which this old and now discredited theory presented, is based upon a certain conception of what happened at the breakdown of the Roman Empire.

  • I turn, therefore, next to answer the question: "What happened in Britain?

  • That is what happened, and that is all that happened.

  • This exceptional strip was the eastern coast belt of the province of Britain; and we have next to ask: "What happened in Britain when the rest of the Empire was being transformed, after the breakdown of central Imperial power?

  • Back at the fjord, what happened to Edith Fairhair while Ulf was on the ocean?

  • Very piteous tales are told of what happened next.

  • I think that's what happened to my maid the other night.

  • Never, never, tell anyone of what happened to you this morning.

  • I was very much impressed by what happened on the first night of our visit here--I mean at the séance.

  • They furnish powerful and incontrovertible testimony of what happened in Belgium when it was swept over by a brutal army.

  • What happened to the little "sick and sorry" house during those fearful days?

  • What happened in the little village of D----?

  • What happened then is still a blurred picture in my brain.

  • The ominous clank of the chain pumps beat a sort of prelude to what happened next.

  • That's what happened to me with her to-day," she continued to explain.

  • What happened in my mother's room when her window was closed I do not know, but I well remember that, creeping into a corner of the carriage.

  • It fills my heart brimful to think of what happened next.

  • What happened after we got out of the carriage at the bronze gate near St. Peter's I can only describe from a vague and feverish memory.

  • This is what happened to the embarrassed warden and jail attendants if they came to protest.

  • I tell it here as an illustration of what happened to countless women who came in touch with her to remain under her leadership to the end.

  • What happened to the banner, we are not told; Jeanne most likely herself caught it as it fell.

  • But Doctor Rabbit was certainly surprised at what happened.

  • Which he did later on, and this is what happened.

  • He told us what happened, impersonally, as one who is listening to another man's story in his own mouth.

  • I have only a dim remembrance of what happened there.

  • Think for a moment of what happened at the beginning of August.

  • What happened we shall be able to look up afterwards in some lumbersome old history, should we forget, but, unless I get down quickly what we thought, it will disappear in after-knowledge.

  • So perhaps you can tell me what happened afterwards.

  • But, Master, when you came back from all your hunting, what happened then?

  • For instance, I began to tell her about King Solomon's Mines, which was a long story; and she to tell me what happened after we parted on the shores of the Red Sea.

  • I wonder," she said without lifting her head from my shoulder, "what happened to the holy Tanofir.


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    Some common collocations, pairs and triplets of words:
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