Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb base] [Wh adv] they [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember when they went to Korea and they had to have these overcoats I sewed on hundreds of buttons , about 10 minutes each coat . |
| 2 | ‘ I wonder where they go from here ’ ? |
| 3 | You know when they put in the foam wall cavity you know the , when they |
| 4 | but he does n't tend to show me up as much now thank goodness , but late one night he really went naughty , you know when they look at you like that sideways and they know that you ca n't wallop them because those |
| 5 | The other day she sat near her water bo , well you know how they sit with all the their little paws in ? |
| 6 | and you know how they say to you at times oh thanks ever so much , I 've never heard anybody that would cover a thing in quite so much detail , I mean you do n't want to sound like a machine that 's pumping out information |
| 7 | you see when they get to eleven |
| 8 | We are all structural-functionalists today , just as we are all in a way Freudians and Marxists whether we like it or not ; but we must also recognize that we do gain additional insight into the significance of social phenomena when we know where they come from spatially and temporally . |
| 9 | And , of course , they — the tumbril was standing in the cart-shed there with the back-chains hanging , d'ye see , fixed on each shaf , just like they do when they go on a horse . |
| 10 | When learners watch video programmes in the target language , they are exercising their listening skills as they do when they listen to an audiotape . |
| 11 | They come whenever they come for whatever reason , and I never ask myself what it was about — I just wrote it . |