Example sentences of "to what [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Right , well now how does that relate to what just said . |
| 2 | ‘ Er , look , Quinn , Washington is being alerted to what just happened here . |
| 3 | Listen to what just happened . ’ |
| 4 | In terms of natural discourse interpretation , Dooling 's sentence context condition is much closer to what normally occurs than is the word context condition . |
| 5 | When he stands alone in such a place confronted by several police officers , usually some of high rank , the dice are loaded against him , especially as he knows there is no one to corroborate him as to what exactly occurred during the interrogation , how it was conducted and how long it lasted ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ And do we have witnesses to what exactly happened ? ’ |
| 7 | New material will be commissioned on this topic to add to what already exists . |
| 8 | It shows Professor Smith 's anger at Lord Young 's apparent refusal then to agree to what later became known as the £38 million sweeteners — accusing him of altering terms to ‘ British Aerospace 's disadvantage ’ and of putting forward points ‘ which neither I nor my advisers can understand ’ . |
| 9 | Corman , a young independent producer born of the post-Superior Court ruling when studios were cutting back on their own B-movie productions , did not know it at the time , nor did anyone else , but he was about to make a significant contribution to what later became known as the ‘ new Hollywood ’ through the personalities he gave work to on low budget films , either acting , writing , directing or all three . |
| 10 | The Colonel , the Honourable , the Member of Parliament had given him more access to what nearly approached aristocratic companionship than he had ever enjoyed . |
| 11 | Well educated in Latin , French , German , Flemish , Spanish and Italian as well as in the Gaelic which enabled him to talk to the most suspicious and recalcitrant Highlanders , he gathered about him scholars and artists to add distinction to what soon became not merely the constitutional but also the cultural capital of the north . |
| 12 | Recent SV gives no guide as to what then happens in the Northern Hemisphere , but we suppose that the flux is first eliminated and then reversed by northward migration of the equatorial patch . |
| 13 | She was shivering , but it was not with the cold , nor even reaction to what apparently had been a near escape . |
| 14 | One would expect to pass those kind of suburbs while lifting the eyes to what still lay in the centre , busy , well kept , and profitable . |
| 15 | Apart from knowing facts such as " oranges contain vitamin C " and liver contains iron " , hardly anyone had a clue as to what actually constitutes a sound balanced diet or even how much of each nutrient is required each day for their body size , or anyone else 's body size for that matter . |
| 16 | It is a beautiful and very moving story , marred only by the fact that it does not bear the remotest resemblance to what actually happens . |
| 17 | Once the teaching unit has reached the stage of a draft computer program which does what the designer intends , together with associated notes which describe what the program offers and its possible uses in the classroom , we need to consider in more detail how to collect essential information as to what actually happens when the unit is used . |
| 18 | Some may think that these are just nice debating points , and that they bear little relationship to what actually happens . |
| 19 | Identifying strengths needs to relate to what actually goes on with children and their learning and not to neglected or under used physical resources . |
| 20 | What we appear to have here is a system where the structure of intervention , as displayed in the file data in other areas , bears only an indirect relationship to what actually happened in Team D. ( The specialist worker in Team C may have been operating in ways that in some respects are not wholly dissimilar , but the approach of the specialist team would seem radically different ) . |
| 21 | This refers to what actually happened — The girl failed to show up . |
| 22 | Perception is not conceived as a direct grasping of an occurrence here but rather as the means by which the perceiver obtains a resulting impression which may or may not correspond to what actually happened . |
| 23 | Crime prevention covers a multitude of things er and we 'll bring it back to what actually effects you . |
| 24 | There is considerable dissension in the literature as to what precisely constitutes desertification ; Kovda ( 1980 ) , for example , uses the term to describe land aridisation which involves all the processes that culminate in a reduction of the effective moisture content of soils and thus cause a decrease in biological productivity . |
| 25 | They drank for a moment before Jordan returned to what really worried him about his boss 's handling of the case . |
| 26 | It seems quite innocent to talk of ‘ processes ’ and ‘ states ’ , but with such talk we blind ourselves to what really matters . |
| 27 | Compared to what really happened that they were liberated . |
| 28 | And so what he 's trying to do is to as Andrea says erm uncover the truth , get to the , get to what really happened as it were , under the layers of myth and distortion could have been introduced in the Bible story , and as I said if you read the book erm and it is quite fascinating in many ways , it is a bit like a detective story because what Freud does is he tries to get to the truth by analyzing the , the actual texts and the texts contains discrepancies and anybody who 's ever tried to erm edit a book , learns this to their cost actually , but er you find no matter how carefully you change things , there 's usually things you miss , little discrepancies that give away how it was the first time and er Freud 's view is this , this has happened very much to the Bible , it 's been so heavily edited and re-written and later the the various editings show and if you read it very critically , you can begin to see perhaps the underlying pattern er coming through and erm just as you can tell for instance by reading Genesis , that it 's a of two accounts because there are two stories , the first story is Chapter One of Genesis , then in Chapter Three or something there 's a second story repeats it with variations . |