Example sentences of "[to-vb] to what [art] " in BNC.

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1	And it 's not until that economic climate changes that people are l are able to relate to what the politicians say .
2	When the boy told him how the police had made the arrests , the Prince called the division commander , whose men had arrested the twenty-four , to listen to what the boy had to say .
3	From the Reagan administration 's first decision to listen to what the Israelis were saying , the Iran-contra affair had found its firm foundation in political and diplomatic illusion .
4	Willingness to listen to what the subordinate is really saying and trying to understand what lies behind the spoken word
5	With that side of his face he seemed to listen to what the other side was doing .
6	Once men were released from trying to defend them as scientific documents they were able to listen to what the text was actually saying .
7	It is important to democracy that government should be not merely ready , but obliged , to listen to what the people ( in all its multiplicity ) has to say .
8	The whole secret was not to listen to what the other person was saying , Masklin had noticed .
9	Some children never learn it , not because they can not read , but because the books they are given do not include this need to attend to what the author is not saying — the beginning of an experience that leads to Jane Austen .
10	No doubt the justice will in fairness give the defendant an opportunity to respond to what the constable is saying .
11	The interactivity lies in the computer 's capacity to respond to what the user does .
12	When the victim was an inoffensive law abiding citizen , therefore , or a constables who , by virtue of his training , is unlikely to respond to what the defendant was doing by committing a breach of the peace , there was little real likelihood of a breach of the peace , and no offence was committed , in spite of the defendant 's intolerably bullying behaviour .

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