Example sentences of "[prep] what they have [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he did n't want to go to the bloody thing , not after what they 'd done to the poor old man . |
| 2 | There was little hope for political enlightenment in the provinces at a time when the number of literary centres and of those attending them fell to one-tenth of what they had risen to in 1921 . |
| 3 | In 1922 the number of literacy centres and those attending them fell to one-tenth of what they had risen to by 1921 . |
| 4 | But that poor customer , John — I am sorry to keep going back to you on it , I 'm just seeking clarification — that poor customer has got to prove to your satisfaction that it 's a mechanical breakdown and not a result of what they 've done to it or somebody 's , at any time , negligence in assembly . |
| 5 | All three were initiated at the 1990 Frankfurt Bookfair Seminars where Asian participants pledged themselves to passing on what they had learnt to their colleagues . |
| 6 | They have focused instead on what they have seen to be the ‘ real ’ text to which they were committing themselves . |
| 7 | What it means , of course , is that very often we have different definitions of experience and reality from men , and that much of what we say is critical of men and about what they have done to women . |
| 8 | They 're asked to make two still images showing what the townspeople might be feeling at this moment — first , about their success in getting the railway to the town , and secondly , about what they have done to the old man , who is now homeless . |
| 9 | Vi wished she could fire a gun and shoot down those bombers if only for what they had done to Gerry , but it was easy to be brave in this small , precious house when the sun still shone in the evening sky and a west wind blew away the stench of bombing and burning and broken bodies . |
| 10 | Just looking at what they 've done to me . |
| 11 | She did n't know what else to say , she was horrified by what they had done to him . |