Example sentences of "[vb infin] [pers pn] [Wh det] they [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who would er tell them what they wanted to know . |
| 2 | ‘ Well , I can tell you what they 've asked for . |
| 3 | I 'll tell you what they 've got in erm |
| 4 | Some twenty years later the District Judge at Kagalla found similar attitudes : ‘ It is a common occurrence for persons to see an animal being driven away under very suspicious circumstances , and yet , although perhaps living within a stone 's throw of the owner , they take no trouble to go and tell him what they have seen , and probably say nothing about it until they meet him looking for his stolen animal , three or four days afterward ; of course then the recovery is hopeless ! ’ |
| 5 | Of course , they agreed , and if afterwards both of them also agreed that there was more to Sally-Anne 's story than she had cared to tell them , about both Havvie and the mysterious Dr Neil — they had noticed that his name was constantly on her lips — they did not tell her what they had guessed . |
| 6 | His mother looked nervously at them as they came in long after dark — she was obdurately against the recalling of ‘ the bad old times ’ and she would neither ask them what they had seen nor let them tell her . |
| 7 | Whenever I 'd ask them what they wanted to eat the reply was always the same : ‘ Anything , you choose , Mum ’ . |