Example sentences of "what they [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Einstein and his collaborators had , therefore , to be very careful how they defined what they meant by physical reality . |
| 2 | But even if political authorities were clear about what they expected from public enterprises , political control would remain problematic . |
| 3 | I actually asked prospective farmers what they thought about certain issues , because I think the Leicestershire county council er and our department are probably some of the best farmers landlords there are in the country and I think our tenant farmers know that in actual fact I asked the question to several of the members er er the potential er clients erm , what do you think about foxes . |
| 4 | This account was mainly intended to bring together some of the comments made by the members of the Arkleton Trust Advisory Committee on what they saw of rural development in Lewis and Harris . |
| 5 | This was true in so far as RCM workers were frequently driven to distraction by what they saw as unreasonable demands by orthodox children and their elders . |
| 6 | Other early ministers were pushed into politics by the reaction of others to what they saw as religious activity . |
| 7 | Such powers , with a bad record on human rights , were quick to show resentment at what they saw as American meddling in their internal affairs . |
| 8 | She 's so flighty and daffy and he 's so glum and boring — you always wondered what they saw in each other . |
| 9 | That 's what they said on that film did n't they ? |
| 10 | It just was n't true what they said in those commercials . |
| 11 | They were often designed by engineers , but what they lacked in architectural distinction , they gained in homely practicality and in the opportunities they afforded to local carpenters to display their skills in beautifully carved barge boarding and valances . |
| 12 | The move followed the completion of a report , commissioned by Col. René Emilio Ponce , the military chief of staff , and drafted by junior officers , which criticized the conduct of the military operations against the FMLN and attacked what they described as corrupt practices by senior officers , the vagaries of the promotion system and the lack of accountability of commanders . |
| 13 | People with interest-bearing deposits ( and , with inflation roaring away , no sensible person held cash ) now find most of what they used as ready money locked away . |
| 14 | The Situationists , too , in their demolition job on the ‘ spectacle ’ of capitalism had used pornography for what they regarded as subversive purposes . |
| 15 | But there is evidence that working class women bitterly resented what they regarded as middle class interference . |
| 16 | Not all shipowners found it equally easy to collect non-union crews , while the requirements of the merchant service and differences between the trade undertaken by various shipowners led to variations in willingness or pressing need to resist union demands and to sink their differences against what they regarded as unwarranted union attacks upon their commercial interests . |
| 17 | Additionally , a very few people had failed to get what they wanted from one source , so had used some other source instead . |
| 18 | As an important control , this sentence was neutral with respect to the rest of the passage , so that subjects would be unable to reconstruct it from what they remembered of other sentences in the passage . |
| 19 | At the time both critics and audiences were fairly certain that what they liked about these films was their wit , their tempo , their sensational hints of violence and sex , their authentic urban feel , and the utterly realistic acting . |
| 20 | What they did to that boy was savage … . ’ |
| 21 | What they did to that girl proves that . |
| 22 | Disgusting it was , what they did to those toilets . ’ |
| 23 | I 'd love to make a black version , in which some kids from South Central LA , who get bussed out to the Sand Fernando Valley ( affluent LA suburb ) , decide not to go to class and start tramping around Fernando doing what they did in that movie . |
| 24 | Father had to poultice her , which is what they did in those days . |