Example sentences of "what they [was/were] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She simply did not know what they were on about . |
| 2 | He will touch everyone on the raw ’ — while the young would receive it as an account of what they were up to . |
| 3 | I did n't want them in my house or my life , but I did want to know what they were up to , and no-one would tell me . |
| 4 | Now it turns out that the Government knew all along what they were up to but told them to lie . |
| 5 | ‘ I knew what they were up to then . |
| 6 | Whatever the relative order of gesture , speech and structure thereof , my quasi-conceptual evolutionary thesis would still be pressing : iterable contribution to significant structure across the whole language , be it gestural or symbolic , is almost certain to have needed a shrewd intentional grasp by communicators of what they were up to . |
| 7 | A network of ex-dealers discovered what they were up to . |
| 8 | ‘ I 've never known what they were up to . |
| 9 | And when you took A resin straight , well then , yeah , then you could see it , see what they were up to , bribing riggers , faking reports . |
| 10 | If only she could get a look , see what they were up to … |
| 11 | Or had they been afraid to do so in case it drew attention to what they were up to ? |
| 12 | He had given up dashing through to adjoining rooms running to look downstairs or above , craning his head out of windows to look for hovering helicopters , but he knew they were there somewhere all right , he knew what they were up to . |
| 13 | Becky cautioned him against rushing into another venture before they had discovered what their profit margins were like , and then only if the rather elderly assistants knew what they were up to . |
| 14 | I 'm to explain roughly what they 're up to , so I invited them in , they then explained exactly what they were up to , fine I 'll do it . |
| 15 | Yet British producers did n't appreciate the scale of what they were up against . |
| 16 | There could hardly be a better reminder of what they were up against : a regent in Scotland with whom they were now at war , but whose political skills they recognized , and whom they regarded with respect , acting for their sovereign in France who so far failed to rule that she got a foreign monarch to tell them off . |
| 17 | He was afraid — and I think now he was right to be — that it was what they were really after . ’ |
| 18 | Did n't get u , dismount I just sat on the saddle like with my foot on the floor wandering what they was up to . |
| 19 | Shows you what they was up to , aye that 's it . |