Example sentences of "[Wh det] they [vb past] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He left and found a squalid flat in Brentford , which they shared with another couple and their children . |
| 2 | When they began to travel abroad they invested in a couple of suits and a jacket which they passed around each other . |
| 3 | Perhaps the last occasion on which they figured at all prominently was at the coronation of Alexander II of Russia in 1856 . |
| 4 | They were quickly fitted with track brakes and put back into service on the Crystal Palace route still in Croydon Corporation livery , in which they ran for several weeks , before being sent to Hendon in turn for repainting and renumbering . |
| 5 | Although as yet their role was peripheral , from the point of view of Russia 's subsequent history the new ideology and forms of organization which they adopted in this period merit close attention . |
| 6 | In all cases English kings had to come to terms with the conditions which they found in these three different countries ; and in all cases they had to show an ability to adapt themselves and their armies to new conditions , military , social and economic , as well as to new thinking in the ways that armies were formed and war was fought . |
| 7 | ‘ They were fortified towns built in the Middle Ages , some by the French and some by the English , from which they preyed on each other , particularly during the Hundred Years ’ War between our countries . |
| 8 | Brooke J. observed that if such a residual jurisdiction did not exist , then the judges would be left with a duty to perform but without the power to perform it in a way which they considered in all cases to be just . |
| 9 | Now Breeze produced some crackers , which they pulled with much laughter — and when a pink ‘ Glengarry ’ fell to the old man 's share , he did not spurn it after all , but actually put it on ! |
| 10 | ‘ Fine streaming ’ — the allocation of pupils , according to their general ability , to classes in which they remained for all subjects — declined in favour . |
| 11 | Gagarin , in 1721 ) , the tsar 's ‘ Siberian satraps ’ enjoyed almost plenipotentiary powers in what they regarded as their own freedom , which they exercised with all the arbitrary and unbridled ruthlessness of a military dictatorship and the methods of a police state . |
| 12 | Once I did this without looking where I was going and went straight into the backs of nine armourers who were ambling towards the Mess for supper , and had to be disentangled from my machine , picked up and dusted off , which they did with all the gleeful enthusiasm which Thursby reserved for drawing his heavy black frontal lines on our neatly drawn charts . |
| 13 | What they meant by that was that managers would do the kind of thing I 've just described like y'know transmit an ambiguous message orally rather than in a memo and visa versa . |
| 14 | They wore tights , and what they wore underneath that no one had told Coffin . |
| 15 | Thomas had warned her that things were never quite what they seemed in this old world . |
| 16 | She 's so flighty and daffy and he 's so glum and boring — you always wondered what they saw in each other . |
| 17 | That 's , I mean that 's what they said to this |
| 18 | That 's what they said on that film did n't they ? |
| 19 | Only because of that , and what they said in that totally shocked me , because erm , I , he had n't given me any feedback about how I was doing . |
| 20 | It just was n't true what they said in those commercials . |
| 21 | A quarter of his chosen writers were unknown to this reviewer , who wondered whether some of them had ever experienced what they described with such wind-whipped adjectives . |
| 22 | Yes , I was very successful in that respect as well that er , my children , I taught them that just to wait till the January sales and they 'd get what they wanted for half the price ! |
| 23 | And they could choose what they wanted from that ? |
| 24 | At the time both critics and audiences were fairly certain that what they liked about these films was their wit , their tempo , their sensational hints of violence and sex , their authentic urban feel , and the utterly realistic acting . |
| 25 | What they did to that girl proves that . |
| 26 | What they did to that boy was savage … . ’ |
| 27 | Disgusting it was , what they did to those toilets . ’ |
| 28 | He says being a little forgiving I could praps forgive them a little for us on the 1952 test , the first , but I ca n't forgive them for what they did to these other lads on the later tests , they must have known something from Nagasaki , Hiroshima and Bikini atoll tests . |
| 29 | This was discussed with the Jones who resolutely maintained that now that ‘ the problem ’ was solved they were going back to normal and apart from the period of intervention they had not changed what they did at all . |
| 30 | I 'd love to make a black version , in which some kids from South Central LA , who get bussed out to the Sand Fernando Valley ( affluent LA suburb ) , decide not to go to class and start tramping around Fernando doing what they did in that movie . |