Example sentences of "to what they [verb] " 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 | You 've stood and looked at them you 've listened to what they 've told you , now what can you do ? |
| 6 | to what they 've said because |
| 7 | The opportunity and the time to just talk to some kids and sound them out … or y' know , listen to what they 've got to say — have the time to do that . |
| 8 | because they realized that they needed it to invent something to fall in to what they 've already got . |
| 9 | And then you 're just replying to what they 've said are n't you . |
| 10 | I paused before replying to her , because if you pause before replying to people it gives them the foolish idea that you 've actually listened to what they 've said , and I said of course darling . |
| 11 | We see ourselves very much in sympathy with their sober , selective approach to what they show , and with their scholarly cataloguing . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | These causal relations are essential to what they mean : without semantics a language is an uninterpreted formal language . |
| 14 | In response to what they characterise as changes in the market , Cisco Systems Inc , Menlo Park , and SynOptics Communications Inc , Santa Clara , have adjusted their plans for joint development effort on RubSystem , which was to have combined their hub and router technologies into one high end hardware chassis . |
| 15 | It provides daycare for children whose families pay according to what they earn . |
| 16 | A group like this that can offer parents the chance to pay according to what they earn is able to offer full day care for 45 pounds . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | It is likely that they paid a price close to what they received from Telecom . |
| 19 | Liberal Democrat To keep up with the growth of the elderly population LibDems are hoping to increase health expenditure by two per cent compared to what they claim is a current increase of only half a per cent . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The transferability and the value of the culture of higher education to society lie not in the acquisition of specific competencies , but in the propensity of graduates to take up a sceptical stance to what they come across ( in truth claims , in concept , in value , in ways of going on ) . |
| 23 | 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 ’ . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | In Piagetian terms they assimilated the language to what they knew , yet managed to preserve at least part of the meaning . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Other early ministers were pushed into politics by the reaction of others to what they saw as religious activity . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |