Example sentences of "[Wh det] they [vb past] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Late in January news bulletins mentioned the Anzio landing in which they knew the Irish Guards were taking part and in February the dreaded news came that Joe had been wounded . |
| 2 | They then formed a limited company of which they became the sole directors and shareholders and sold the business to the company . |
| 3 | He measured the rate at which they pecked the different models , and confirmed that the red spot on the tip of the bill acts as a signal to the chick to peck , in order to beg for food . |
| 4 | On Saturday afternoon the RAF Presentation Team , which normally attends one of the Area Conferences each year , gave their presentation to Conference for which they received the grateful thanks and applause of those present . |
| 5 | In the absence of a written constitution the power and duty of the judges to control the quality of the administration of justice in the courts of this country were derived largely from ancient custom subject to express mandates from time to time by the Crown , as in 1292 , and the way in which they superintended the disciplinary processes of the Inns of Court was an important feature of the way in which they performed that duty and exercised that power . |
| 6 | West of the Yenisei , the fishing and hunting economy of the Mansin Khanty , Selkup and Ket peoples was largely based upon the use of dugout or plank boats , in which they navigated the numerous rivers , lakes and marshes of the Ob basin . |
| 7 | And the hours er the early that 's what they called the early men they went in at one o'clock . |
| 8 | But we shall not be surprised if in their turn the specialists refused to take seriously what they considered the uninformed accounts of writers like Pausanias ' source . |
| 9 | On Dada he wrote : ‘ With robust iconoclastic humor the Dadaists mocked what they considered the sorry shams of European culture . |