Example sentences of "what [pron] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The author of what I later discovered to be a scholarly , if tendentious , account of us foreign policy since Korea , he expressed a fastidious regret for the instruments America had to work through but justified the excesses of the client governments by reference to the worse alternative of Marxist dictatorship . |
| 2 | However , while North Circular-bound a few months back I was flipping through the channels on the radio trying find something decent when I came across what I later learned to be Hey from the recent ‘ Upfront ’ album by David Sanborn . |
| 3 | Look what I already did to your car . ’ |
| 4 | With the ‘ demographic shift ’ of the 1990 's we must take every opportunity to encourage more girls and young women to follow what I firmly believe to be a most rewarding of careers . |
| 5 | What I principally object to are all our dreary , smug books about growing up and coming to terms with oneself , that … are merely another brand of conformity … . |
| 6 | That 's what I always say to mine . |
| 7 | That 's what I really object to . |
| 8 | I 'm pessimistic because I believe that if the council is to tackle what I still believe to be a big problem of the local authority then it can not really do so without the support of the largest party on this authority and if we have heard erm an honest assessment of their perception of of the case , I I really I really do despair that this council will will get to the bottom of the problem . |
| 9 | Erm with a thing like this , I mean what I usually say to people it depends on erm if you 've got a lot of numerical data , oh you might as well have this back for the time being so |
| 10 | Whilst I entirely agree with Nochlin 's decision not to amend any of the articles ( ‘ despite the strong temptation to correct what I now know to be errors of fact or feel to be mistakes of interpretation ’ , p. xii ) , neither should they have been allowed to stand in an historical vacuum . |
| 11 | All was well algae-wise apart from a smear of brown algae on the glass , some beard algae on the bogwood and on some of the slow-growing plants and what I now know to be the tell-tale sign of a thin greasy film on the water surface , which is present long before it thickens up into slime algae . |
| 12 | But her mind did not dwell long on what she privately felt to be a remote contingency — Lady Merchiston was so changeable ! |
| 13 | ‘ Nonsense , Saul ! ’ said Araminta , smiling in what she evidently felt to be a winning fashion . |
| 14 | It is useless to beetle your brow in what you clearly believe to be a threatening fashion . |
| 15 | What you just go to the supermarkets and buy a whole of chickens ? |
| 16 | No , cos I have n't caused an accident because they , are in the wrong anybody that gets , anybody else up the arse no matter what you fucking did to them , it 's them wrong . |
| 17 | Are you behaving like that to make people laugh or because it is what you honestly believe to be right . " |
| 18 | ‘ Chemical interference ’ is what you actually apply to your skin in the form of cleansers , harsh astringents and face masks . |
| 19 | It is vitally important because non-verbal signals tell other people as much about you as what you actually say to them . |
| 20 | ‘ I do believe that 's what you always wear to bed , ’ he said in amazement . |
| 21 | It 's what you always seem to be doing . ’ |
| 22 | Using our discussion in this chapter , edit it so that it conforms more to what you now understand to be conventions of an appropriate literary-critical style . |
| 23 | Dysfunction is a term currently enjoying great vogue , perhaps because it so aptly describes so much of what we laughingly refer to as modern living . |
| 24 | Work would already have started on improving what we already believe to be one of the country 's most modern and safe grounds . |
| 25 | But if we look at what we now know to be the case — which is that Saddam Hussein has an enormous war machine , that he was a tremendous threat in the region — how , without going to war , and through the mere sustaining of sanctions , do you reduce that threat ? |
| 26 | It is hoped that the last has been heard of the practice ( see contributory cause ( a ) ) and that for the future it will be abandoned for what we now know to be more prudent and wiser measures . |
| 27 | What we usually take to be specifically feminist concerns ( e.g. ‘ political ’ ones — whatever that means ) seem often obscured in this body of writing by the theoretical exigencies of semiotics , psychoanalysis , discourse analysis or Althusserian Marxism . |
| 28 | Remember what we once meant to one another . ’ |
| 29 | The first Not the Nine O' Clock News series had a sketch about Python worshippers but that team , while itself worshipping Python , went out of its way not to be derivative , eschewing silly voices , dressing in drag and what they later realised to be a misogynist trait in Python . |
| 30 | That 's what they usually say to me . ’ |