Example sentences of "[prep] what they [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's difficult to explain , but a part of me never really believed I should see her again , even after what they told me at the theatre . |
| 2 | But he did n't want to go to the bloody thing , not after what they 'd done to the poor old man . |
| 3 | And the Old Bill came down and found them and nicked us , even after what they 'd said . |
| 4 | Police say the man escaped across fields after what they said was a despicable attack . |
| 5 | The news brought back by Colonel Moore after what they had all supposed was no more than the formal punctuation had almost panicked her . |
| 6 | They walked on , and after what they reckoned to be another mile they paused again and looked back at Dynmouth . |
| 7 | The minority , which could muster only 160 votes against the majority 's 855 , displayed considerable bitterness towards what they said was pressure on them to accept independence , and threats that they would lose their jobs or worse . |
| 8 | Although both candidates were Democrats , Jordan , a former chief of police , epitomized the opposition by white heterosexual conservatives towards what they perceived as the city 's minority-dominated , pro-homosexual culture as symbolized by Agnos , a former social worker . |
| 9 | Instead they would continue to work towards what they had earlier described as ‘ a national consensus on a desirable frame-work for the curriculum ’ in the quest for ‘ improvement in the consistency and quality of school education across the country ’ . |
| 10 | I mean everybody knew what was going on , they might have had their own interpretations of what they 'd been told , but that happens , and as I said you know , every decision was voted on by the full lodge of the three quarries . |
| 11 | Yeah I think at the onset of the strike there were a few people who were considered likely to be forced to get back to work or to go back to work , because of what they 'd said , because of well just you know because of what they say in the meetings or because of what they did n't say in the meetings . |
| 12 | It 's funny how er th trends change , but that was a was quite a common occurrence was that , men feeling ashamed of what they 'd got but trying er er in terms of these magazines giving them as if they were doing you a favour . |
| 13 | Survivors thought their vehicles had been stopped for a security check ; the shock of what they 'd seen sent this young Palestinian into deep trauma . |
| 14 | This book is a collection of writings , drawings and photographs of what they discovered . |
| 15 | It was only at that point that we felt confident that the field-worker was being talked to by respondents as a person rather than as some novel sex object , and the veracity of what they said could be treated by us with more confidence . |
| 16 | The by-laws were lawful not because of what they said but rather because of what they would have said if they had been drafted lawfully . |
| 17 | Their general demeanour was like that of elderly clubmen determined that it should be clearly understood that they were men of the world , fully alive to all the tricks of your Tom , Dick and Harry ; yet their actual questions and comments revealed that they had not the remotest notion what sort of a world it was that these East End people they were listening to actually lived in , or how to evaluate their characters and the plausibility of what they said . |
| 18 | " Did you hear anything of what they said ? " |
| 19 | We are seeking not what Parliament meant but the true meaning of what they said . |
| 20 | He watched , aware of a whole vocabulary of gesture there in the dialogue between the two men : conscious not just of what they said but of how they said it ; how their eyes met or did not meet ; how a shared smile would suddenly reveal the depths of their mutual understanding . |
| 21 | And presently what was within the books became significant also — quite small books would do , she discovered , because of what they said , one did not always have to get behind Bartholomew 's atlas or the bound volumes of Punch that lurked in the bottom of the sitting-room bookcase . |
| 22 | We are seeking not what Parliament meant but the true meaning of what they said … ’ |
| 23 | In a few cases , staff and parents ' views were downright contradictory , for example , when asked if staff kept them fully informed about their child 's progress , a number of parents felt staff tended not to tell them about their child 's good points whereas staff said that most of what they said to parents was positive . |
| 24 | I was aware of their voices but not of what they said . |
| 25 | Yeah it does , you see if Ken and Freda or anybody knew they were being televised they 'd be careful of what they said |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In 1922 the number of literacy centres and those attending them fell to one-tenth of what they had risen to by 1921 . |
| 28 | The beneficiaries thus regard themselves as having received no more than their due , to which they were entitled anyhow , while those whose benefits are discontinued regard themselves as cheated of what they had a right to and had been encouraged to expect . |
| 29 | Rather does Karajan seem to remind them at every point of what they had agreed on in countless hours of common endeavour ; and his movements — chiefly of the baton-less left hand — are functional , not in the least demonic . |
| 30 | In other words , branches agreed to retain less than before of what they had collected from students , and if necessary raise extra funds through special events . |