Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] [adv] [vb infin] what " in BNC.
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| 1 | This ( comment ) just goes to show that either the Chinese leadership is totally insensitive to the feelings here or they do n't care what happens anymore . ’ |
| 2 | The frogs could hear them although they did n't know what they meant or even what they were . |
| 3 | Financial markets yesterday naively expected something , although they did not know what , from Nigel Lawson , the Chancellor of the Exchequer . |
| 4 | The Government can not say , as an excuse , that they did not know what was going on and how it could escalate . |
| 5 | Are you saying that they did n't mean what they said then ? |
| 6 | in order to ha to achieve one 's goals , are you saying that how look well you 've just got to assume that they were wrong that they did n't mean what they said ? |
| 7 | Too many of us now say that they did n't know what was going on , and that they were long opposed to what was happening . |
| 8 | They looked me over , said that they did n't know what it was and sent me home . |
| 9 | If the former , then consumers have money in their bank accounts or pockets that they do not know what to do with and may therefore not mind increased taxation to pay for schools , hospitals , and the social services . |
| 10 | They may refuse to respond , on the grounds that they do not know what tiv means ( see Carey , 1978 ) ; they may ask what tiv means , and having been told to guess , offer a response ; or they may select a response without querying tiv . |
| 11 | That they do not know what you seek as well as your intention of rooting out any trace of an ancient order . |
| 12 | Nor can teachers any longer be allowed to say that they do not know what will be required of their pupils three , six or eight years later . |
| 13 | They spend so much time thinking about mathematical problems that they do not notice what is happening around them . |
| 14 | Another way might be to raise your hand — a bit more tiring if some are so engaged in their work that they do n't stop what they 're doing for a couple of minutes . |
| 15 | Anybody working with chemicals should know , they are very silly to work with a chemical that they do n't know what it could do , the first aid treatment , in fact , erm , anybody here work with chemicals ? |
| 16 | Few witnesses in court refuse ‘ to tell the truth , the whole truth and nothing but the truth ’ on the grounds that they do n't know what the truth is or how to tell it . |
| 17 | these people ca n't say then w what our , that they do n't know what our intentions are . |
| 18 | Nobody can pretend for a minute that they do n't know what 's going on . |
| 19 | We have acquired the habit of assuming that they do n't know what they want , do n't want to decide anything about their own lives and have nothing to contribute . |
| 20 | And , and the fact that they do n't know what 's gon na happen , how to contain all this |
| 21 | But for them it feels like such a disaster after the first phase , that they do n't know what to do about it . |
| 22 | I 'd met the best , the most famous , and the richest , and they did n't have what this guy had , and I wanted it . |
| 23 | She said the girls they just stood there and they did n't know what to say to him . |
| 24 | I named a duck I had this letter come no no no no , I had this letter come , right , and it said now they 've got this duck and they did n't know what to call it and so Gemma said well I think erm Eileen , Auntie Eileen ought to name it so I , I was asked to name this duck . |
| 25 | They were afraid to touch her and they did not know what to do . |
| 26 | The people from the mining company do not care about the land and they do not care what happens to the countryside . |
| 27 | And they do n't know what they 're missing . |
| 28 | When she discovered , in the summer of 1977 , that 5,500 metres of plain cloth was ‘ hanging about in Helmond and they do n't know what to do with it ’ , she was appalled and gave orders for it to be made up into suitable garments immediately . |
| 29 | ‘ When people are faced with lots of troubles and they do n't know what to do , there 's always someone ready to say anything , just to get some power , ’ said Grimma . |
| 30 | We had words of the sixties , there were words of the seventies , there were words of the eighties , words of the nineties , and we 're influencing by those words , actually that 's reasonably in popularity and er increasing usage , and sometime we , people actually use it and they do n't know what it means . |