Example sentences of "what they [verb] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In terms of what they seek to achieve , but not in details of their design , they are parallel to Labov 's neighbourhood studies and telephone survey . |
| 2 | Pay fifty and thirty quid a week more is a bloody what they get stopped off them . |
| 3 | They get on with it and they get on with life in the colleges and life may not be wonderful but they deal with it , and in some senses they are exercising what power they have , but what they get fed up with is constantly having to exercise it . |
| 4 | Oh yes , the , the service that the retain people give is unbelievable for what they get paid for , it 's , it 's pennies really for that service . |
| 5 | Basically , it 's another one , is n't it , where whatever money we put towards it , and the end of the day what they get left with comes back into the community . |
| 6 | Tony Jacklin had won the 1960 Open and the 1970 US Open , and his huge British following was going to make sure that he did what they 'd hoped he 'd do in 1970 at St Andrews , and win the 1971 Open at Birkdale . |
| 7 | Many of How 's clients were in court today for what they 'd hoped would be the final day of a complex five week trial . |
| 8 | And the marvellous thing in Plato of Socrates , when he 'd been told by the Delphic Oracle that he was the wisest of men , he started off like a sort of good poperian scientist trying to falsify this and he went round finding people wiser than himself and he went to various people and they were n't any wiser , and then he thought ‘ Oh , the poets , they 're marvellous people , they know so much ’ , and he went to them and he found that the had n't a clue what they 'd written . |
| 9 | And he went to them , and he found that they had n't a clue what they 'd written , and he concluded , quite soberly , that they must have been visited by a Muse . |
| 10 | Central South saw what they 'd achieved by 1991 , and now we 've been back to check on progress . |
| 11 | A compromise was reached whereby all the latecomers were allowed in , spontaneously , in one great gush after a particularly jolly sketch called ‘ Lumpy Latimer ’ , and they could all settle themselves down , remove their shoes , finish their sandwiches and consult the fellow next to them over what they 'd missed . |
| 12 | The route , at least , was what they 'd said , and so with nothing worse than the altitude to battle against , we reached the summit with ample time to absorb the views . |
| 13 | And the Old Bill came down and found them and nicked us , even after what they 'd said . |
| 14 | Yeah I think at the onset of the strike there were a few people who were considered likely to be forced to get back to work or to go back to work , because of what they 'd said , because of well just you know because of what they say in the meetings or because of what they did n't say in the meetings . |
| 15 | By the time you remembered what they 'd said erm |
| 16 | No i I phoned insurance up and told them what they 'd said , cos I got Maggie to phone , it were Maggie that said , they told Maggie that they were gon na put a second hand wheel on and everything instead of a brand new one so she told insurance about it . |
| 17 | Well that 's what they 'd said to Melody Maker . |
| 18 | Yeah that 's what they 'd said to Melody Maker . |
| 19 | It had been bought by a northern brewery who could n't believe that they could get over a pound a pint for their best bitter despite what they 'd heard about Londoners . |
| 20 | Guess what they 'd seen me in ? |
| 21 | When they got back , they wrote about what they 'd seen and drew pictures of their ideal playground . |
| 22 | As it drove slowly away towards the town , so the small knot of idlers and gawpers dispersed , back to the quays and the eating houses to tell about what they 'd seen , and Huy and Merymose were left alone . |
| 23 | Survivors thought their vehicles had been stopped for a security check ; the shock of what they 'd seen sent this young Palestinian into deep trauma . |
| 24 | When the 850 patrons then rose en masse and made for the exits , the actors wondered what they 'd done wrong . |
| 25 | The next morning , realizing and regretting what they 'd done , they went back to the pub and were relieved to discover that the publican had n't cashed their cheque . |
| 26 | And Phil Oakey must have eaten his own fringe when he heard what they 'd done to his malevolently provincial classic ‘ Do n't You Want Me ’ . |
| 27 | But the real the real glorious irony I think that cheers up erm psephologists like me , political analysists , is that in those May elections the Conservatives did dramatically well compared to what they 'd done in the general election . |
| 28 | But he did n't want to go to the bloody thing , not after what they 'd done to the poor old man . |
| 29 | And when Victor realised what they 'd done he was furious . |
| 30 | Oh all their friends what they 'd done . |