Example sentences of "to what they [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The commission has consulted a lot of people but only listened to what they said when they agreed with the commission , ’ one source said . |
| 2 | The main reason that I was allowed to do the research was , I learned later , because their press was so bad the Moonies could not believe that someone who would listen to what they said could possibly come up with worse stories than those already in the media . |
| 3 | Let's see if it gets back to what they said there . |
| 4 | I hope that the inquiry will underline the fact that , by and large , children do not lie about such matters and that the people who have now come forward as adults have probably been permanently damaged because no one would pay any attention to what they said . |
| 5 | But the real the real glorious irony I think that cheers up erm psephologists like me , political analysists , is that in those May elections the Conservatives did dramatically well compared to what they 'd done in the general election . |
| 6 | In the rural areas , people could scrape by , thanks to what they grew themselves , but , in the towns , the queues for food and fuel were endless and often unrewarded . |
| 7 | It is likely that they paid a price close to what they received from Telecom . |
| 8 | This group , all known to each other , were daily injectors of ‘ speed ’ and made a conscious decision to change to what they thought was a ‘ less dangerous drug ’ . |
| 9 | Er I never actually had any part in it but I heard tales about er the rivet boy in particular , the they would er they would give him a wage equivalent to what they thought was was a was a reasonable wage for him , because of the fact that they were on piece work , he had to see that the rivets there on time . |
| 10 | The action takes place thousands of miles from ‘ the perennial roar of London ’ , but the reader remains very much aware of London and the civilization it stands for as moral standards crumble ; ‘ savage ’ and ‘ white man ’ become confused until the conduct of the whites , intent on mutual destruction , seems worse than that of ‘ these poor souls — and even Sally Day , the child of cannibals , in all likelihood a cannibal himself — so faithful to what they knew of good ’ . |
| 11 | They are unfortunately exceeded in number by the famous names of the past who clung to what they knew best without being prepared to adapt or change , and slowly but inexorably saw their business disappearing beneath them . |
| 12 | In Piagetian terms they assimilated the language to what they knew , yet managed to preserve at least part of the meaning . |
| 13 | Its extension would now oblige the left to find new ways of campaigning among party members , because they tended to cast their votes according to what they saw on television . |
| 14 | Other early ministers were pushed into politics by the reaction of others to what they saw as religious activity . |
| 15 | Any group of intimate Libyans , in such circumstances , would respond aloud to what they saw and heard : at ease , politically interested and informed , talking back at the set was the rule . |
| 16 | The new emphasis was not universally approved of , purists objecting to what they saw as a tendency for accountants to look a project over and approve or disapprove of it from the beginning . |
| 17 | The philosophers may have been generally unsympathetic to what they saw as an encroachment on their territory , while the sociologists have done their best to incorporate or adapt Mannheim 's project to fit with a paradigm in which they were already working . |
| 18 | Some people are genuinely mistaken as to what they saw while others embellish their accounts with things their friends have told them since . |
| 19 | The sources from which the children could find information enabling them to make fullest use of the church study were not confined to what they saw in the booklet nor what they could see and think out for themselves ; a number of people , both inside and outside the school , were enthusiastic and available for consultation . |
| 20 | Strong trade unions , especially in the public sector , had successfully resisted attacks on the Welfare State in the past , and so needed to be defeated if the Tories ’ solution to what they saw as the major problem — inflation — were to be successful . |
| 21 | The two opposition members of parliament were firmly opposed to what they saw as a further extension of government power . |
| 22 | This manoeuvre caused dissension within feminist ranks , however , and in 1889 a small group of women , including Mrs Pankhurst and Josephine Butler , formed the Women 's Franchise League , in reaction to what they perceived as a preoccupation with the cause of spinsters and widows . |
| 23 | You are listening to what they told you and you got the , the right picture , you know the right facts and the right details and the right emotions so you can go back and cover the right plan of attack so you can sell them products they actually want and not what you think they |
| 24 | ‘ For some children it would give them the opportunity to wreak mayhem , while other , more sensitive children would be deeply affected out of all proportion to what they had done . |
| 25 | A certain element in our audience who are , basically thick , responded to what they had read over their morning cornflakes . ’ |
| 26 | The general shortage of comforts and of everything which kept us just above the lowest level of life was sufficiently great to make individuals cling to what they had with something like fanaticism . |
| 27 | Would they , could they , after the sudden heady freedom thrust upon them by war , ever go back to what they had been ? |
| 28 | The Edwardian and Progressive eras were rife with ideas of how film could develop but of all the possibilities the only thing that happened was that the showmen hung on to what they had discovered . |
| 29 | Of course , compared to what they had been producing with a typewriter and some rub-down lettering , the desktop publishing system was producing wonderful material — it just did n't conform to any of the professional standards . |
| 30 | Compared to what they had i in the next farm you know . |