Example sentences of "[vb base] [Wh adv] they [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A group of eight black boys in this discussion reveal how they feel about certain teachers making derogatory comments about their skin colour in the form of a joke , and also how it affects them emotionally when this takes place in front of the class . |
| 2 | Try to code the acts according to the Sinclair and Coulthard system and show how they combine into motives and exchanges . |
| 3 | I would suggest that a more natural and more effective approach would be to reverse this traditional pedagogic dependency , begin with lexical items and show how they need to be grammatically modified to be communicatively effective . |
| 4 | He suggests that the totem animal is the father , which many peoples show when they talk of the totem animal as their ancestor . |
| 5 | Oh , the Spidergobs were n't dumb at rumbling , look how they lay in wait for those technerds who got one almighty surprise as to who was hunting who . |
| 6 | She 'll drink the Tizer and eat the crisps , and still complain where they come from ! ’ |
| 7 | Remember how they succeeded in shifting the target in the World Cup quarter-final against Western Samoa ? |
| 8 | The other day she sat near her water bo , well you know how they sit with all the their little paws in ? |
| 9 | 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 |
| 10 | When you were in , when you were discussing these things in the l lodge meeting erm d d d did the younger men sort of indicate how they felt towards the picket ? |
| 11 | You know when they put in the foam wall cavity you know the , when they |
| 12 | only the contractors do and even they only know when they go on site so , but we , we sort of say you do this , you do that and then we contract to who can do it , there 's some of them by er |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | A cut-away view would show the relative size of the larger plants and indicate where they grew in relation to the banks . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | For example , employees know where they stand with regard to compensation for moving at company request ; a clear policy aids employee relations . |
| 18 | With these types of horses , try to sit very lightly and note how they work on the lunge without the weight on their back compared to how they work under a rider . |
| 19 | Or they may wish to discuss their present lives with each other , and compare how they cope with the problems and difficulties of being old . |
| 20 | Let us take two paradigmatic kinds of sociolinguistic phenomenon , and ask how they fall with respect to two of our definitions of pragmatics , namely , the most restrictive and the broadest definitions . |
| 21 | If we wish to understand how a machine or living body works , we look to its component parts and ask how they interact with each other . |
| 22 | Comprises three limestone caves ( one of which is the longest in Britain ) all of which illustrate how they served as homes for both humans and animals : including the Bone cave , rich in archaeological evidence with details of the Flintsone-like inhabitants dating back to the Bronze Age . |
| 23 | The assumption appears to be , therefore , that women do not experience the same degree of loss as men do when they retire from paid work . |
| 24 | When learners watch video programmes in the target language , they are exercising their listening skills as they do when they listen to an audiotape . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ The international division of labour ’ is only a fancy way of describing what people do when they go to work . |
| 27 | People often do when they spy on others . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I wonder where they go from here ’ ? |
| 29 | But they tr , they 're doing their best to get across , you you know , you sometimes wonder why they pick on you , and they do n't pick on me . |
| 30 | They come whenever they come for whatever reason , and I never ask myself what it was about — I just wrote it . |