Example sentences of "[Wh adv] [pron] [vb past] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were five of them , and whenever they arrived they came up the woodland track on a big spreader wagon with a battered old van bouncing along behind . |
| 2 | Luke seemed to lose no opportunity of parting her and Rob whenever he found them together , as if he could n't bear to see them slacken pace . |
| 3 | I 'd been muttering unhappily to a couple of friends about how hopelessly disorganized a particular campaign I 'd got involved with seemed to be when a strange man next to us started a similar but louder tirade about how useless Switchboard was , how everyone knew they were ripping off money from their fund raising and what a lousy job they did in his ( extremely small and third-hand ) experience . |
| 4 | They wanted to know about me and my business and how I thought they could help , ’ he recalls . |
| 5 | How I envied them . |
| 6 | That is how I saw them — and indeed how they were presented to me — when in fact , of course , they were just as vulnerable , just as sane and insane , just as full of gloss and blemishes as anyone else . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'll ask no leading questions , as I remember how I loathed them when I first started seeing a lot of Tom . |
| 8 | But it 's the story of how I did them , of what happened to me in doing them . |
| 9 | In case you have n't seen how I used them , I have enclosed a copy of Cymru Wledig . |
| 10 | Having already told them how I proposed they should move I demonstrated it by moving one of the pepper pots around the table . |
| 11 | I 've already told you how I threw them into the river . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ By Christ , O'Malley , ’ he hissed , ‘ there 'll be hell to pay when Brogan , Kerrigan and Mullen hear how ye betrayed them . |
| 13 | That was how she knew they had arrived . |
| 14 | Another , who works in a uniform all day , said how important her earrings were , and the short dreadlocks under her hat ; how she felt they were making a statement for her , something like : you may think I 'm an ordinary , boring nurse , but my hair and my earrings give you the clues ; this is what I 'm like out of my uniform , I 'm different , I 'm me . |
| 15 | His mother would become involved in long discussions with him about how she treated them both fairly and then would end up getting angry with his unreasonable attitude . |
| 16 | How she wished they could turn him out at once . |
| 17 | God how she hated them , the middle classes , penny-pinching , doling out their little bits , in their minds always the thought of saving and accumulating , saving — thought Alice , her mouth full of bile , as she stood gazing up at a beam a foot across that looked grey and flaky , with whitey-yellow fibres in it — the dry rot itself , which would lay its creeping arms over all the wood , if it were allowed , then creep down the walls , into the floor below , spread like a disease … |
| 18 | Since she has been grown-up she has told me how she remembers those Saturday mornings and how she loved them . |
| 19 | They were in her power and at her discretion in all ways — how she loved them . |
| 20 | Most of her guests brought flowers when they came , knowing how she liked them , and how she loved to arrange them in tall glass vases on the kitchen table while people gathered around her , chatting in a tight excited crowd . |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't understand how you knew they would come back here , to this time , at this place in the universe . |
| 22 | The danger is that they might turn out to be entirely different from how you expected them to be . |
| 23 | I thought very carefully about words and how you made them . |
| 24 | Some of them will be the same ones that we 've already done so do n't look at the do n't look at these just try them on your own try and remember how you did them . |
| 25 | And if you get stuck go back and have a look how you did them here . |
| 26 | But while you will usually be expected to remember other pieces you have seen before — and how you analysed them — you should not discuss those other passages in your answer ( unless you are explicitly instructed to , which none of the above questions do ) . |
| 27 | Derek , just keep up the pressure , just demonstrate how we got them by the short and curlies and |
| 28 | And that 's how we got them . |
| 29 | We got good reviews in every paper … everyone saying how we outclassed them . |
| 30 | How we explained they interpreted and explained unemployment , and how it related to their other political beliefs and behaviour . |