Example sentences of "[Wh det] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But listen Inverdarroch , talkin aboot toilet arrangements guess whit they 've done . |
| 2 | The lost villages are known to have existed mainly through references in medieval parish records of births , marriages and deaths , but their location is unknown beyond the parish in which they lay . |
| 3 | Females of several parasitic species of wasp sting weevil larvae , beside which they lay a single egg . |
| 4 | He was inept at first , but the strong urge would not be deflected ; by the end he was filling her , jerking the skins on which they lay . |
| 5 | But the slivers , so moist , so delicious , had been interleaved with greaseproof paper , and the white tray in which they lay had looked so very like the ones she had looked at with hopeless longing in Marks and Spencer , except that someone had torn off the label . |
| 6 | He grew up in a world of feud and betrayal , the hedgerow ambush on the country road , the British officers or agents in their rooms , given two minutes to say their prayers and then ‘ plugged ’ through the sheets and blankets of the beds in which they lay . |
| 7 | Every day when he left for work , he would leave objects such as a scroll or a limestone flake , or his kohl-pot , a certain measured distance from the edge of the table on which they lay , and from each other . |
| 8 | ‘ I knew you 'd be great at it , ’ she carried on , whispering despite the mighty desolation in which they lay . |
| 9 | Now that the education and library boards independently assess the formula according to which they delegate budgets to schools , does not the Minister fear that a great disparity in provision will result — not only in regard to pupil-teacher ratios , but in regard to every other aspect of provision across the different area boards ? |
| 10 | One can imagine someone in a room looking at a beautiful painting , drinking in the details and the way in which they combine to constitute the lovely whole , and there being nothing beyond this observer and the object of his contemplation . |
| 11 | According to this , the meaning of words and statements lies in the psychological states ( including long standing dispositions ) which they combine to produce in hearers and to be caused by in speakers . |
| 12 | Treacherous weather held up operations , but Marines were landed on the tip of the peninsula to demolish Turkish guns , which they achieved unmolested . |
| 13 | None the less , given the pressures on the BEA at the time , it is perhaps understandable that in the early years speed ( which proved elusive ) and reliability ( which they achieved ) were given priority over efficiency and economy . |
| 14 | The men around Nixon who planned the escapade were not elected professional politicians , but mainly " west coast advertising types " concerned only to sell their " product " and not too worried over the means by which they achieved this end . |
| 15 | But note the crudity of that paragraph , which still does n't give credit to the head teachers and governors for the way in which they 've worked , and the success which they achieved . |
| 16 | Both in the Forum Report ( New Ireland Forum 1983–4 : xii ) and in their written submission ( Irish Episcopal Conference 1984 ) , they not only repeated their oft-stated attitude to catholic schools , defending them from any contribution to sectarianism in Ireland , but opposed the introduction of divorce and any weakening of legislation which they felt protected the family . |
| 17 | A thudding outside , which they felt with their feet before they heard it . |
| 18 | The directors of these films , tourists in working-class cultures for which they felt little sympathy , saw only what they wanted to see . |
| 19 | As already stressed , the National Unemployed Workers ' Movement and , its mentor , the Communist Party of Great Britain , failed to find the revolutionary spirit which they felt was being dampened and re-channelled by the Labour Party . |
| 20 | The Christian community inherited from its Jewish matrix a strong sense of being ‘ called out ’ ( the root meaning of ecclesia ) from the surrounding society which they felt to be possessed by different values . |
| 21 | Under those circumstances , foreign aid agencies saw a vacuum which they felt themselves able to fill . |
| 22 | An analysis of the polemics in which the nouveaux romanciers have been prepared to engage demonstrates , at the very least , a concern with modernizing the contemporary French novel which they felt had advanced little , formally and technically , since Balzac , as a consequence of the failure to assimilate both the local experiments of Flaubert and Proust and the innovations of Joyce , Woolf , Faulkner and Kafka elsewhere . |
| 23 | In their study of civic culture in 1959 , Almond and Verba repeatedly noted that the better educated in all five countries that they studied were more likely to participate in the political process , and to believe that they could do something to change laws which they felt were unjust through the conventional channels of political participation . |
| 24 | The judges ' decision can therefore be seen as an attempt by enlightened amateurs to retain their position as arbiters of taste in the face of these threats , by sponsoring a style of architecture which they felt would be an appropriate form of building in Victorian England . |
| 25 | However , the single most important factor militating against employers ' cooperation was that they never regarded the ‘ problems ’ highlighted by reformers — indiscipline , excessive occupational mobility , absence of vocational guidance , lack of systematic industrial training , and inadequate preparation for family responsibilities and exercise of the franchise — as problems for which they felt responsible ; they had little interest in the search for solutions . |
| 26 | Others suggested that their schools had an improved and more balanced curriculum , as a result of much more careful planning and prioritising , something which they felt could not have been achieved without devolution . |
| 27 | She was already dressed , they all were , in preparation for the shipwreck which they felt sure must come . |
| 28 | George and Marie agreed that George should take most of the responsibility for the Brasserie , which they felt needed his talent for hospitality to build up a clientele , as well as his ability to train staff and foster good employee relations . |
| 29 | It gives counsellees ‘ permission ’ to talk about difficult areas , and indicates that we are willing to listen to all the emotion that they may harbour , but which they felt no-one else wished to know about . |
| 30 | Some years ago The Sunday Times invited parents ( representing a wide range of social backgrounds ) to list the things which they felt to be significant for their children in their years of primary schooling . |