Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] to what [pers pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At first , I closed my ears to what I did not want to hear . |
| 2 | He also drew my Attention to what he claimed were certain impurities in the material of my Cupel . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Another one was : killing him was breaking my word to what I believe . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 ) . |
| 8 | Erm it can set its parameters to what it thinks is suitable then . |
| 9 | With a mental sigh that dimmed her meanings , she turned her attention to what she should have been doing all along . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Then she recalled his reactions to what he 'd labelled her prejudices in St Lucia , and stayed silent . |
| 12 | Avoiding the stigma of using the word ‘ Palestinians ’ , Ford would later express his thanks to what he called ‘ Arab soldiers ’ who had ‘ helped ’ with the evacuation . |
| 13 | He just managed to close his mind to what he did n't want to know , because it spoiled his beautiful graphs . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Other reports indicated that the failure to reach agreement over farm subsidies had been aggravated by the intervention of Delors , and his opposition to what he deemed unacceptable concessions to the USA by the EC 's Agriculture Commissioner Ray MacSharry . |
| 16 | yeah , erm , he 's also , what 's his attitude to what he |
| 17 | It is easy to escape this issue by saying that the discourses of the two groups have little in common ; but discourse analysis should teach us that it is as likely to be our attitude to what they say that categorizes them . |
| 18 | But do n't despair if you have n't the time to volunteer because some of the most important ways to be more ‘ Green ’ are concerned with your attitude to what you buy at home , in the office , for the kids , for friends , to eat etc … |
| 19 | ‘ When you 've finished ridiculing your superior officer , you may care to give your attention to what we learnt back there . ’ |
| 20 | You will also be held in respect of any particular area of your breakdown to what you have put in your original letter . |
| 21 | Giving our time and devoting our attention to what they say is therefore crucially important in the process of counselling . |
| 22 | In 1982 , Rudi Fuchs came up with an accurate analysis of the new avant-garde movements in painting , and in 1987 Manfred Schneckenburger drew our attention to what I would call sociological considerations : art and culture , art and design , and so on . |
| 23 | Relate your corrections to what you know of the child 's general approach to spelling . |
| 24 | I found this section , number three , of particular interest because surely it 's dealing with the very kernel of our relationship to what we call in language that ought to be so real and preserved from romanticism , the body of Christ membership limbhood branchship , whatever you want to call it , if whether you take your figure from John fifteen or from the Apostle . |
| 25 | Although they did n't , they did n't act illegally , they did n't say right , we 're going to make the redundancy payment act , but what they did say you retire at fifty , we will make your we will enhance your pension to what you would have got at age sixty , we will enhance your lump sum to what you would have got at age sixty and erm give you a redundancy payment from the firm and obviously everybody fifty and plus they 've gone in thousands , they had enormous waiting lists and then they had to say no , you ca n't go you know , too many people wanted to go . |