Example sentences of "[conj] what they " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They do n't realise the speed of the men players or what they can do with the ball . |
| 2 | I did n't know who was playing or what they were playing , or where , or why . |
| 3 | Working men of earlier generations had less need to assert who or what they were . |
| 4 | It 's precious meeting the odd soul on a high top and passing the time of day with them , knowing that no matter who or what they are , you share the same interests in wildlife , wilderness and solitude . |
| 5 | Little groups stood about talking of the war or Brighton or what they were going to cook for supper . |
| 6 | Giving very young children too much choice over when to get up , what to wear or what they eat for breakfast can be a recipe for disaster — acrimonious arguments , delays and tantrums . |
| 7 | And there 's not a lot of co-ordination between what she 's currently doing and what the children did last year , or what they will do with another teacher next . |
| 8 | Hypnosis may also occasionally help someone remember by encouraging them to imagine how they felt or what they were doing at the time of the event . |
| 9 | On the other hand , parents who show no sign of caring where their youngsters are , or what they are doing , not only leave them free to get into all kinds of trouble but make it harder for them to take responsibility by depriving them too soon of parental care . |
| 10 | EVER wondered what sounds influence our local bands , or what they think of the national and local music scenes ? |
| 11 | Terrified of making the slightest slip — Kinnock and the rest played safe — or what they thought was safe . |
| 12 | It 's always a great temptation to look around , see what other people are doing or what they have got and want to be like them . |
| 13 | By consequentialist he means that the moral value or justification of any action is to be found in its consequences , and by eudaemonistic he means that actions are justified when , as a consequence of those actions , people get what they want or what they prefer . |
| 14 | It does not appear to matter whether the learners are particularly interested in this input , or what they actually do with it , or whether they are actively engaged in achieving purposeful outcomes . |
| 15 | When drafting your notes , do think about whether you have provided the report recipients with what they want to read or what they want to consider . |
| 16 | We knew they were geologists … they did n't come in contact with anybody on the island , they did n't tell people what they were doing or what they were looking for . |
| 17 | They are under orders not to reveal the identities of their clients or what they are prepared to pay . |
| 18 | No matter how they cheer , or what they do , when you do that one thing that you 've always wanted to do , that 's when you 're a success . |
| 19 | In their grander moments the Welsh would claim most ancient associations — the luminous legendary King Arthur — and boast they had supplied England with its greatest monarchs — out of Owen Tudor — Henry VII , Henry VIII , Elizabeth I. ‘ They are an alien race , ’ wrote Burton , ‘ and nobody knows where they came from or what they are . ’ |
| 20 | He asked no questions about Druid 's Bottom , about what they had done , or what they had seen . |
| 21 | What he and his colleagues were aiming at was not democracy , popular government , but limited government , or what they termed a " republic " or a " representative republic " . |
| 22 | It is not the question of what in general we say when we assert such conditionals , or what they are about , but the question of what reasons we have for saying what we do . |
| 23 | We are tempted , perhaps , to associate them with what they are of , or what they represent , and hence to remove them from where they otherwise would seem to be , and hence to be lost for a location to which to assign them . |
| 24 | ‘ We still have this idea that if we do something morally wrong , or what They said was wrong , there 'll be some kind of Divine Retribution , ’ said William . |
| 25 | Neither Nehru nor Jinnah gained all that they wanted ( or what they had announced as their objectives ) but Aung San and Thakin Nu did obtain all their demands , despite British objections . |
| 26 | 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 |
| 27 | Sometimes they leave their fingerprints there so they get what 's known as the Scenes of Crime Officer or what they call like all po well like all forces |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Or what they cost to buy in ? ’ |
| 30 | The people in his past had been real once but , although that was a very long time ago , he had never been able to forget them or what they had done to his life . |