Example sentences of "their [noun] [conj] [Wh det] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's I do n't know what it was , er they hardly , we were having a discussion with the doctor , erm none of them would put forward their opinions or their views or what they thought |
| 2 | So we have lost all hope of communication with them , and thus any prospect of learning from their experience and what they have to say . |
| 3 | Very often in therapeutic groups they do claim not to , but in fact er the leader does play a very dominant role er and even when the attention shifts to members of course , the fact that all the other members are watching them means that their reactions and what they say and think and do in a group would have been very much constrained by their actions and expectations o of the other members . |
| 4 | Although a lot of his story is still relevant to us cos you can see it in today 's life when people stand up for themselves or stand up for their faith or what they believe in and you look around you , you can see violence and being done to them . |
| 5 | They are under orders not to reveal the identities of their clients or what they are prepared to pay . |
| 6 | So I try an encourage them that their images and what they chose to make pictures of are as important as my ones . |
| 7 | Their plan was a simple one : pay the imprisoned debtors ' debts , plus the fees demanded for their clearance and what they owed the keeper for lodgings and the rest , and they could be released . |
| 8 | He was interested in their notice-boards and what they said . |
| 9 | In this group there were some wide discrepancies between what teachers were doing in their classrooms and what they said — and seemed to believe — they were doing . |
| 10 | The meeting was at their request and what they wanted to do was discuss with us , how we should report er financial data to them in the future |
| 11 | I think British Airways offer a fair deal erm but it 's not necessarily the largest deal , they invest a lot in in their service and what they do , and I think erm Virgin do offer generous deals . |
| 12 | The theatricality that the Mann children seem obsessively caught up in tells us little about their personalities or what they like to eat , play at , wear or do after school . |
| 13 | All this means that individuals feel estranged and confused by an event that has very powerful consequences in their life but which they did not witness and feel very frightened of . |
| 14 | Mostly he always used to take the mickey out of the girls because they always used to talk about their boy-friends and what they were doing on different nights and that , because you see , most of them went out with boys from the same school , see , and he knew them . |
| 15 | This was recognised by Sir Ernest Gowers in The Complete Plain Words : [ L ] egal draftsmen have to ensure to the best of their ability that what they say will be found to mean precisely what they intended , even after it has been subjected to detailed and possibly hostile scrutiny by acute legal minds … |
| 16 | And you knew what they were thinking , they were trying to weigh up whether they dare go across the stepping stones and you could tell by their faces and what they did of course when they decided no it was beyond them and they 'd play safe and they 'd go back the same way . |
| 17 | Into the Home territory beyond they had to go fairly warily , but less so than if they had been a weaker company , not because of fears that the Homes would betray them to Dunbar but in that they were always jealous of their declared rights to decide who should enter their country and what they should pay for the privilege ; but two hundred and fifty well-armed men in tight formation carried their own safe-conduct , and they rode through without challenge . |
| 18 | I tell you what amazes me , Mary , he takes , he can take a conference , when they have a big do he puts them there for the , you know for their dinner or whatever they |
| 19 | It 's the experience of their lives and their lifetime and what they 've done , how they 've managed their lives , that shines through and becomes beautiful . |