Example sentences of "what they have [adv] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What they 'd already made an appointment for Sammy Jo well that 's what |
| 2 | because they realized that they needed it to invent something to fall in to what they 've already got . |
| 3 | can not have four week deferred period So what we 're saying is the risk there is too high , and there 's obviously a greater chance they 'll be claiming at a very early stage Okay , so the client has the choice , say , apart from the group fours , they could be four thirty and twenty-six and fifty-two , but again dove-tailing into what they 've already got . |
| 4 | repeating what they 've just said , to show that we 've understood them ; |
| 5 | You do n't notice the young mothers so readily , because they 're doing what they 've always done . |
| 6 | It 's doing what they 've always done for 50 years . |
| 7 | So most teachers are tending to ignore the national curriculum , and the tests and everything else , and teach what they 've always taught . |
| 8 | Just what they 've always wanted . |
| 9 | They let all the big companies go round digging holes in the road , and when people fall in and complain they say it 's all for their own good , and after a while they hope the people will revolt so they can give the police guns and thin out the population , and then they 'll have a police state — which is what they 've always wanted — and the rich will be able to live in peace . ’ |
| 10 | Well that 's what they 've bloody done near enough ! |
| 11 | Again depending on what they 've currently got cos again we 've got to dove-tail this plan into any current arrangements that they 've already got . |
| 12 | I think that 's what they 've really wanted all the way along . ’ |
| 13 | Then showing them the results of what they 've actually done . |
| 14 | What they 've actually done today is announced that they want to put er Calverton into review and at least it tells people at Calverton what the situation 's going to be for the future . |
| 15 | They produce press releases and they send it off and they feel terribly bitter and twisted and unhappy because nobody takes any notice of it , but they do n't realize that what they 've actually produced makes no sense at all to the person receiving it on the other end . |
| 16 | There have to be , there are particular reasons why er after revolutionary upheavals you very often get authoritarian forms of government and I would say in Russia and i i in a sense it 's linked with Harold 's question as well about erm the Chinese following a Stalinist model of economic reconstruction think what you 've actually got in Russia is not this sort of mass hankering after authoritarianism but you 've got a situation where the bureaucracy that controls a completely devastated , backward economy , which is what they 've actually got in the early nineteen twenties , where the working class democracy has just disappeared really with , with the , with the economic collapse , with the factories shutting down , with all of the old communist party militants going into the Red Army or getting sucked into the state bureaucracy with that sort of complete collapse really , economically and socially and politically , you 've got a situation where the central priority of the leadership is to build up Russian industry as quickly as possible so that Russia has got the armed forces it needs |
| 17 | Okay , definition of disability , what they 've actually got to be , to be able to claim is unable to perform any part of their normal occupation . |
| 18 | Contemporaries frequently commented upon this ideological transformation , accusing modern Whigs of acting on old Tory principles , and new Tories of practising the opposite of what they had formerly professed . |
| 19 | In the 1960s and 1970s , the ranks of executive search consultants included many people who had largely failed at what they had previously undertaken . |
| 20 | That was what they had both said . |
| 21 | Mr Beltrami would tell the jury that on several occasions during the past four years McGuinness had spoken to him in detail about his part in the Ayr murder ; and as he has a commanding presence and deep , authoritative voice , his evidence would have gone far to confirm in the minds of the jury what they had already heard from Mrs McGuinness . |
| 22 | It all corroborated what they had already heard . |
| 23 | The Literary Lionisers , or those who had survived the damp morning walk to Ramsgate along the sands ( in the steps of the great Dickens on his walk with Hans Christian Andersen ) , were equally divided as to those who wished no more to do with the Imperial , Broadstairs or indeed the Lionisers , those to whom the sudden disappearance of their leader was an added bonus , and those who were determined not to miss what they had already paid for . |
| 24 | If anything , they would have been better off contributing less prize money ( which they tried to do in 1991 but were not allowed to reduce what they had already promised ) and used it instead to go into the appearance money pool , which will still have to be funded . |
| 25 | What they had eventually decided to sell before they went to bed that night ( or the following morning really ) were Great-Uncle Hilbert 's do–en Waterford sherry glasses . |
| 26 | Very few witnesses had been found who were prepared to come to court to repeat their statements in the flesh , but some did and their words were translated first into English and then into German , causing some confusion as to the precise meaning of what they had actually said . |
| 27 | The news brought back by Colonel Moore after what they had all supposed was no more than the formal punctuation had almost panicked her . |
| 28 | There was a faint murmur of satisfaction , though only a murmur , for it was what they had all expected . |
| 29 | And all the whole , French scientists continued to do just what they had always done — make new discoveries and expand our understanding of the natural world . |
| 30 | I mean , at the end , after Jesus does it they , th the the they 're frightened by what they had now seen Jesus do ! |