Example sentences of "to [Wh det] [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before doing so all offers received should be examined and explained to the client with a recommendation as to which offers to proceed with . |
| 2 | The houses in the High Street went stravaiging down to the Gallowgate and the Saltmarket , to which last place no sane citizen would go as it was full of cutthroat robbers , avoided even by the police . |
| 3 | Their appeal was that they were conceived in Keynesian terms as helping to reduce the extent to which measures to alleviate unemployment , in a largely fully employed economy , created inflation . |
| 4 | I think he s a bargain specially as he s good looking to which lets face it is the only way to judge a player anyway . |
| 5 | The Court refused to allow itself to be caught in a circular argument as to which State needed to waive immunity first . |
| 6 | In view of the frequency with which section 5 was prosecuted , there is surprisingly little authority as to what constitutes threatening behaviour . |
| 7 | We went around 72 holes on joint agreement as to what clubs to use , and we only missed six greens . |
| 8 | These were Allen 's and Marian 's guesses as to what had gone on in the darkness but the rest of the story of those two hours before dawn was easily pieced together from Tom All Alone 's account . |
| 9 | They soon learned that an internally consistent paper with logical relationships to what had gone before stood a better chance of acceptance than something which was right but new : civil servants after all knew little about the industry and had little basis on which to judge proposals except consistency with what had gone before . |
| 10 | All the same , he wished he 'd paid a little more attention to what had gone on when he 'd been leaving the depot so that he could have spotted when they carried out that trick with the form he was supposed to have dropped . |
| 11 | Since they were in bed the query was ambiguous , and might have had reference to what had gone before . |
| 12 | er perhaps Tom himself was erm not really concentrating very much but I know when we came back after the Christmas Day , the Boxing Day that is , erm , Tom was quite oblivious as to what had gone on on the Chr on the Christmas Eve , so I remember we c we put our heads together and erm came to erm some arrangement as to who should be invited for this next tractor course and nothing was ever said so I expect the right people went after all but erm it 's funny how when he was |
| 13 | In a market contrast to what had gone before in the Singles , it was some of the unsung members of the European side who came up with most of the points to secure the tie . |
| 14 | The Chinese Communist Party of the late nineteen thirties is a completely different kind of political organization to what had existed in mid nineteen twenties . |
| 15 | The advent of Edna into the household had been a miraculous and totally unexpected blessing , if such a word could be applied to what had become a devastating situation . |
| 16 | The ‘ pressure ’ in these cases was both internal , with individuals feeling the need to conform to what had become the ‘ norm ’ in their social group , and also external , with individuals being urged to conform and , given the nature of heroin use , subsequently excluded from the group if they did not . |
| 17 | Much has already been said in the preceding pages about the subsequent progress through the learned hierarchy of the student who chose to become a muderris : with ability , luck , good connections or a combination of the three he would teach through a number of grades of medreses , eventually to turn to the mevleviyet kadiliks through which he might hope to rise ultimately to what had become by the end of the sixteenth century the principal office in the hierarchy , the Muftilik of Istanbul . |
| 18 | Benny reached out to turn the body , hoping to see if there was any clue to what had killed him . |
| 19 | This time he stood in the centre of the room , plainly unsure as to what had brought him in , his eye searching around for something to fasten on , like someone in mid-speech forgetting what they had to say . |
| 20 | Nor am I. ’ She was restless , moving uneasily about the hut as once before , curious but preoccupied , and slow to come to what had brought her on this errand . |
| 21 | This alters the previous law , where it was held in effect that where a policeman was the only witness to what had occurred , no offence was committed . |
| 22 | Where policemen were the only witnesses to what had occurred , there was most unlikely to be a breach of the peace , since the policemen were unlikely to engage in the use of unlawful violence . |
| 23 | His expression studiously blank , hiding his thoughts , concealing any reaction to what had taken place , he drove in silence , while Luce struggled to make sense of what she 'd heard . |
| 24 | Leaving her chair , she went to the kitchen and set the kettle to boil for a warm drink , while her thoughts drifted back to what had started her on the trail of looking back . |
| 25 | A quick flip through my cookery books turned up some Italian and Middle Eastern dishes that bore a passing resemblance to what had happened on Rebecca 's plate . |
| 26 | You made no reference to what had happened . |
| 27 | He spent most of his time searching through magazines , picture books and newspapers , hoping to find some clue as to what had happened to his mother and father . |
| 28 | ‘ The baby was fine , she was warmly wrapped up and completely oblivious to what had happened , ’ said the police spokeswoman . |
| 29 | She never ever referred to what had happened on the beach . |
| 30 | This was one of the few liberties taken by the film 's editors , as no B–17 quite arrived that way on December 7 , but the shot was clearly too good not to include and it approximated to what had happened to a number of the actual B–17s which stumbled into the attack . |