Example sentences of "[pron] [noun sg] to what " in BNC.
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| 1 | I closed my ears and tried to close my mind to what was happening . |
| 2 | But Mr Kilfoyle told the health boss : ‘ Your colleagues if not yourself will be well aware of my opposition to what the Regional Health Authority is doing on behalf of the most despised government in living memory . |
| 3 | He also drew my Attention to what he claimed were certain impurities in the material of my Cupel . |
| 4 | I 've been a soldier myself , I was a soldier a long long time ago and er er training was different in my day to what it is today . |
| 5 | And I do that say that because I want you to be feel my commitment to what what we 're trying to do here . |
| 6 | Another one was : killing him was breaking my word to what I believe . |
| 7 | I very much resented them , because they drew my mother to what would have been a private retreat for me . |
| 8 | This week the same group of companies that are backing WABI will turn around and reportedly lend their support to what might as well be called MABI , Apple Computer Inc 's Mac-on-Unix defence against the forces of Microsoft Corp . |
| 9 | This week the same group of companies that are backing the Sun Microsystems Inc WABI Windows Application Binary Interface for Unix are expected to lend their support to what might as well be called MABI , Apple Computer Inc 's Mac-on-Unix defence against the forces of Microsoft Corp , today 's issue of our sister paper Unigram.X reports . |
| 10 | Whereas contemporary French Catholic institutions devoted only one-sixth of their curriculum to what might be termed science , Ramus allocated a half , praising the value of the mechanical arts . |
| 11 | Shaken social workers and child care specialists are now considering their response to what has become an almost daily litany of press releases , television interviews and newspaper articles centred on the W family in Orkney . |
| 12 | It is difficult to see through the vagueness now surrounding the Government 's plans , but it is clear that ministers were both unprepared and unco-ordinated in their response to what MPs across the political divide detected as the stench of injustice . |
| 13 | But it is not easy to do this without becoming crude , and , since the art appeals principally for its sensitiveness to what it is mocking , crudity has the effect of alienating those readers the pastiche should most attract . |
| 14 | In the early stages there was anxiety and anger within the Tory machine that the campaign was too flat and unfocused in its response to what was perceived as a dangerous Labour push . |
| 15 | But she was n't made of brass , or ice either , although she tried to close her mind to what he was doing , to the gentle , unbearable pleasure of his lips moving slowly over hers , not cruel as they had been earlier , but coaxing , first lightly and then more demanding . |
| 16 | Her opposition to what she regarded as adventurism and ultra-leftism was shown in 1969 when she resigned from the executive together with Conn McCluskey , John McAnerney and Fred Heatley in protest at NICRA involvement with the People 's Democracy ( PD ) . |
| 17 | If people are nearby , draw their attention to what is going on , so that it 's no longer a case of one to one ; or ridicule the offending performer , pointing out that he may catch cold if he does n't take care ( provided that you feel instinctively confident that such a tactic will not enrage him ) . |
| 18 | With a mental sigh that dimmed her meanings , she turned her attention to what she should have been doing all along . |
| 19 | She turned her attention to what was happening all around them , the laughter , the gossip , the spontaneous singing of a Rossini aria . |
| 20 | This village near Llanberis gave its name to what was once the world 's largest slate quarry . |
| 21 | Many of the broadcasters and journalists had been trained either in Europe or locally by Europeans , and many also looked to Europe as their guide to what broadcasting and journalism were for . |
| 22 | But Sir Peter and his colleagues have also demonstrated their commitment to what the mission statement describes as ‘ a participative and results-oriented management style ’ ( my italics ) . |
| 23 | She alerts the reader in her introduction to what she finds offensive in these genteel concoctions of tea and adultery : … if a comic charlady obtrudes upon the action of a real novel , I will fling the novel against the wall amidst a flood of obscenities because the presence of such a character as a comic charlady tells me more than I wish to know about the way her creator sees the world . |
| 24 | When he went to Waitrose to buy the food for their contribution to what everyone in the street was calling ‘ Donald 's funeral breakfast ’ Henry spent hours browsing through the domestic cleaners , all of which sounded pretty lethal . |
| 25 | The less agreeable side of Mathilde 's nature revealed itself in her tendency to what the French call l'esprit démolisseur , a sort of wilful destructiveness , which led her to become a focus for the intellectually disaffected during the Empire . |
| 26 | Far from getting in a flap over nuclear issues they are winging their way to what has become one of West Cumbria 's top tourist attractions . |
| 27 | As the cab wound its way to what , the driver assured him , was the administrative block , Grunte noticed a sports field full of girls doing gymnastics . |
| 28 | He displayed no desire to interfere militarily in Wessex or Northumbria though his response to what was probably a local Kentish hegemony in the south-east after 784/5 reveals his potential for aggression . |
| 29 | He just managed to close his mind to what he did n't want to know , because it spoiled his beautiful graphs . ’ |
| 30 | It should be within the competence of everyone of moderate ability who has worked properly and who directs his mind to what he is being asked . |