Example sentences of "[pron] [Wh det] they have [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They came in their full march into the town with about 60 or 70 coloureds borne before them which they 'd taken at the Battle of Edgehill from the Parliament 's forces . |
| 2 | The unequal status which women possess in society results in a situation in which what they have to say is for many purposes discounted or reinterpreted for them . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , I can tell you what they 've asked for . |
| 4 | I 'll tell you what they 've got in erm |
| 5 | If the order is complicated , ask the person at the other end to read back to you what they have written down , so that you can both check that it is correct . |
| 6 | So out you go You know people initially work using networks , and then if they do n't have somebody that corresponds to something which they 've got to do then they perhaps will phone the university or the poly and say , ‘ Have you got anyone that knows anything about jam fritters or whatever it is , we want to do a piece because it 's current , ’ and somebody 's unearthed in that particular way . |
| 7 | He said the party 's 49 Scottish MPs would campaign for a multi-option referendum on the country 's future , something which they had endorsed at the meeting . |
| 8 | or which is one which they 've done in there , is take a specific dream which they 've had which is vivid to them |
| 9 | 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 ! ’ |
| 10 | The former frequently ask ‘ Is this right ? ’ or ‘ What do I do next ? ’ , whilst younger pupils seem to spend more time showing him what they have found out . |
| 11 | He said , how do they what they 've said , but they have n't had it ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Then they charged her £25 for a letter telling her what they had done . |
| 14 | She told me what they had said — that it is a loss of honour , ‘ It is disrespectful to your husband . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ It suddenly came to me what they had done . |
| 16 | He asked a number of men to tell me what they had seen and found the night before . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He done it for his soldiers , to show them what they had to do . |
| 19 | She was telling them what they had watched on the breakfast news . |
| 20 | Many companies , using only the most casual euphemisms , offer these services , so we spent a day on the phone talking to detective agencies listed in Yellow Pages , asking them what they had to offer . |
| 21 | But what it was , they were like it was like G A N do them er Man and Co And they had sort of like a job like Dave 's and a lot of them what they 've done is they 've bought in this area , I mean probably most areas they 've bought the repossessed they 've got about eight or nine houses they 're either renting them out or they 're leaving them empty . |
| 22 | No i I phoned insurance up and told them what they 'd said , cos I got Maggie to phone , it were Maggie that said , they told Maggie that they were gon na put a second hand wheel on and everything instead of a brand new one so she told insurance about it . |
| 23 | Mrs Blakey kept on asking them what they 'd done that day . |