Example sentences of "what they [pron] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The answer must be that it is much less important by what mechanisms people come across art than what they themselves bring to the encounter . |
| 2 | Children are not unfamiliar with situations in which they tell , or are told , what someone else said or thought ; or in which they tell what they themselves said or thought at some point in the past or think at the time of speaking . |
| 3 | I am sorry that Labour Members do not like to hear what they themselves said , but I intend to repeat it . |
| 4 | Norris , still clad in his white lab coat , was one of those medical students whom fate has seemingly marked out to spend the bulk of their studies and initial training suffering from quite stupendous hangovers incurred through the intake of near-fatal levels of alcohol the night before , and their subsequent professional careers sternly finger-wagging at any member of the general public who dares to consume over the course of a week what they themselves had been perfectly happy to sink during the average evening . |
| 5 | But then they do n't even seem to have wondered before what they themselves feel about the matter . |
| 6 | Dominant social attitudes play a large part in suggesting to older people that ‘ disengagement ’ is what is expected of them — and ultimately it becomes what they themselves expect from old age . |
| 7 | The real cause of the trouble is , that parents and teachers always pass on to us , as children , what they themselves have been told , and this has been going on for hundreds , or even thousands of years . |
| 8 | Children repair what they themselves say from as early as one or one-and-a-half years of age . |
| 9 | Guess what they they 've nick-named me ? |
| 10 | You know when you put those boots on and the string rather because they they are what they they look like with the they 're called boots . |
| 11 | I mean , we we have , er , com what they they call the Community Constable . |
| 12 | That 's what they have to that 's what they they do |
| 13 | It was difficult cos you only had what they we call the joystick behind me and I used to work that and I used to be |