Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [det] [noun pl] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You notice how few songs they do . |
| 2 | And to encourage people to work they would make them fill in a job-sheet saying how many forms they had booked in . |
| 3 | So we ca n't decide , as regardless of how many times they claim , we ca n't say , enough 's enough , we 're not gon na honour the contract any more . |
| 4 | One of the difficulties that results from these cuts and that tax has been that there had been so numerous that it ca n't keep count of how many times they 'd changed the goal posts , how many times they imposed cuts , but you know a lot of the government 's ideas are that it 's money , money , money , but it 's not all financial , it 's been physical and mental . |
| 5 | Asking both men and women how many times they took the driving test before getting through , the researchers found that men had a significantly higher success rate , with 57 per cent passing at the first attempt . |
| 6 | He had little idea as to how far they had come and had lost count of how many times they had fallen . |
| 7 | One of the difficulties that results from these cuts and that tax has been that there had been so numerous that it ca n't keep count of how many times they 'd changed the goal posts , how many times they imposed cuts , but you know a lot of the government 's ideas are that it 's money , money , money , but it 's not all financial , it 's been physical and mental . |
| 8 | How many times they get it wrong ! |
| 9 | And no matter how many times they asked the girl , no matter how many different ways they approached it , her story was always the same . ’ |
| 10 | To ask an ordinary person how many times they have visited the cinema during the past year is probably unfair for all except a small number who can quickly say ‘ never ’ or else ‘ regularly once a week without fail ’ . |
| 11 | Having to count how many times they have hit the horse and then decide to give it one more is ridiculous . |
| 12 | He was beginning to find that he enjoyed the big offworlder 's company , and it was amazing how many things they had in common . |
| 13 | In those days they did n't use mileometers , what they did was they took any particular route number and the number of journeys they did , because in those days a bus kept on a route which applied , say between Witton and Rushmere Heath all day , did n't run around like they do nowadays and erm when the schedules were prepared , each bus had got a route number or was placed on a route number , say one Witton , two Witton , three Witton and a copy of its schedule was recorded on another sheet and the mileage , having known what the mileage was and we 'd used to obtain that from the Borough Surveyor 's Department , er I think it was about nine point one four miles a return trip Witton and Rushmere Heath , er you 'd work out how many journeys they did there and say well that bus was due to run a hundred and twenty six miles during the day . |
| 14 | I wonder how many letters we get in the course of a month , Chris and Chris , Colin , Andrew , I wonder how many letters they get in the course of a month , which start of with the famous words , your salesman said because this is what they go out to say . |
| 15 | They influence the education of children in enormously important ways , not just in terms of how many exams they pass , what results they get at O level or C S E , but on important issues such as education for democracy , the kind of climate that schools create for young people is very important in the way they see society and they see their role in it . |
| 16 | If you think about people in very large numbers , you can divide them into groups in a variety of ways : age groups , different sexes , marital status , numbers of children , where they live , what they do , how much they earn , how many GCSEs they have , whether they own a car or a colour TV , the colour of their skin … the list is , in practice , endless , especially if you add in ( say ) readers of Punch , or buyers of Beecham 's pills . |
| 17 | Oh I see as opposed to that which is how many groups they proceed to check . |
| 18 | You look at Liverpool , Arsenal , Scum … and how many defenders they have back at all times . |
| 19 | ( I ca n't quite remember by how many pins they won ! ? |
| 20 | In the case of multiple bereavement the main issue would seem to be to try and recognize with the person how many griefs they experience and where they would want to start talking about them , rather than launch into where we think they should begin . |
| 21 | Beginning to take responsibility for their own property , they may be proud to count how many paintings they have done or sort their work from the pile , to take home . |
| 22 | It is sad , first of all , that so many educated people miss all the fun that is in good science ; how many hours they spend at dinner parties with nothing substantial to pass the time , and how many acres of The Observer have been devoted to the to-ings and fro-ings of Guy Burgess and the annotated laundry lists of D. H. Lawrence , because the impeccably educated editors of that mercifully ailing rag do not know , after they have worked through the football and the statutory theatre crits , what is interesting . |
| 23 | Most manual workers in Britain receive a weekly wage which is determined by how many hours they work , how much they produce , or some combination of the two . |
| 24 | It 's different hiring people here too : everybody has a contract that specifies exactly how many hours they have to work , length of vacations everything ’ . |
| 25 | But you know it surprises me I mean I know the church is , is closed and it 's been closed for a couple of years now and it looks a sight because now I do n't know how many members they 've got , at least a couple of them could go in there and cut all the brambles down . |
| 26 | When his mouth returned to capture hers , she was in heaven again , and lost count of how many kisses they shared after that . |
| 27 | Well if you see how many pallets they got and you see the trouble is the metal ones are so slippery they 're all the while dropping meat all over the floor . |
| 28 | ‘ Companies ca n't tell you how many machines they have so how can they possibly protect them ? ’ said Ronald Berg , of the Scandia risk-management company in Sweden . |
| 29 | I wonder how many patients they get like him who are just lucky ? |
| 30 | Accounts differ as to who was present and how many vehicles they had , so what follows is an approximation of what actually happened . |