Example sentences of "what it [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It has an overdraft of just over £1m , and its finance committee was told this week that , after hoarding trade-union and individual affiliations since 1987 , the party would have some £6m to spend in a May or June election — still much less than the Tories , but twice what it spent in the last election . |
| 2 | When he first reached the blissful shore of the redhead 's body , a peculiar idea occurred to him : he now knew at last what it meant to be absolutely modern ; it meant to lie on the shore of the redhead 's body . |
| 3 | But the lessons he learned from those formative years were to stand him in good stead later on when he was to understand what it meant to be a director from first-hand experience . |
| 4 | Television had brought golf to the working class and for just a moment television gave us an idea of what it meant to them . |
| 5 | But what it meant to both of them was that all the money was frozen because there was a dispute over whose money was what and how much money had been spent — that was a problem for David and for Tony . |
| 6 | The heated debates in Western Europe around the year 400 on the meaning of perfection had their roots in the uncertainty about what it meant to be a genuine Christian in a society of fashionable Christianity . |
| 7 | This remark did not go down well with Alcuin , who thought he was being criticized , but we can see what it meant to the late ninth-century writer who reported it . |
| 8 | Carrying the banner of the nuclear industry , it was well aware of what it meant to be a target for the new generation of environmentalists . |
| 9 | In the early 1950s the anthropologist A. Irvin Hallowell reconsidered the whole issue in the light of what it meant to be a human person . |
| 10 | ( Births and mothers willing ! ) b ) Study day reports ? c ) Reports/write ups of visits and meetings ? d ) What it meant to me . |
| 11 | Lee sat with her hand gripped tightly around the curved handle of a pint mug of beer and tried to work out who could have decorated the rostrum with this masochistic phrase and when and why and what it meant to the writer and whether the evening 's entertainment was aware of the invitation signalling beneath her feet . |
| 12 | I just want to read three anecdotes which , and I mean I 've given you sort of odd statistics and the advantage of anecdotes is that they actually put flesh on the bones I think , and they really give you a sense of what it meant to be er a peasant in China in the nineteen thirties . |
| 13 | ‘ Constanza says that she felt so much for her mother , even if she did not understand then what it meant to her to be cut off from Italy , from Rome . |
| 14 | It was unreasonable of him to expect her to know what it meant to people like Mrs Appleby to receive a visit from an employer . |
| 15 | Perhaps when we stopped asking what it meant to be fighting a war in Northern Ireland . |
| 16 | I turned to an investigation of my own family and my class background , and what it meant to be a woman … = This was the starting point of a project on ‘ my history ’ which I began by tentatively examining photographs of myself and ended by taking control over how I wanted to be photographed . |
| 17 | But now , at this moment , she understood his inadequacy in personal terms , realized what it meant to him not to be able to move people , not to be able to find the encouraging word , the inspiring slogan . |
| 18 | He understood what it meant to be sixteen . |
| 19 | Now workers control , that 's what it meant to me . |
| 20 | Quite clearly what it meant to the average rate payer was seven pound a year . |
| 21 | " He will share your bed and possess your body , " Maria Candida had said when asked what it meant for a woman to give herself to her husband . |
| 22 | Remember that what you think a word means is not necessarily what it meant for the writer . |
| 23 | But the committee was hopelessly divided on what it meant by Christian hope — whether it was hope for peace and perfection in this world , or hope for a future life , or hope only of forgiveness at the last . |
| 24 | What it meant in human terms was that black UK citizens excluded from their own country ( Britain ) were and still are being forced to live in countries where they have no right to live or work . |
| 25 | After a curious military episode — he ran away from Cambridge to join the 15th Dragoons — he arrived in Bristol in 1795 full of plans to establish a new system of society , called Pantisocracy ; this word is explained on p. 80 , but what it meant in practice was the rather grandiose idea of founding a new American colony . |
| 26 | Celia had known Alan 's blood-group , and knew what it meant regarding Donna . |
| 27 | What it reflected of her husband 's face , Tobie could n't see . |
| 28 | To the coming generation of performers , pop was no longer expected to mean anything other than what it represented on the surface ; it was as if pop music 's aspirations towards deeper meanings and truths had been exhausted ; social realism was distanced by irony and a conscious manipulation of artifice . |
| 29 | By 1983 , the government seemed resigned to the continuation of the rates and sought other ways to curb what it perceived as the excessive expenditure of some local authorities ( see pages 185 — 9 ) . |
| 30 | The openly aggressive posture of fascist Germany to the revolutionary communist state , its frequently proclaimed intention to exterminate what it perceived as the sickness of communism , inevitably mobilised support for the defence of threatened revolutionary ideals . |