Example sentences of "[Wh adv] they [verb] [adv prt] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The lacewing 's ears are at the base of each forewing , and cause the wings to fold whenever they pick up the bats ' echolocating sounds . |
| 2 | If you can get so close to barbel , with or without them knowing it , you should take the opportunity to study how they use the available cover to sneak under ; how they move like silent wraiths across the bottom , and how they rake over the gravel on the bottom with their barbules . |
| 3 | The details of how they opened up the roof and lowered the man down through the tiles to the feet of Jesus are so vivid that the account obviously has some true foundation to it . |
| 4 | The present owner of the rectory told me that one thing people notice when they go round the garden is that there are now no garage doors . |
| 5 | Now it was the hour when they brought out the pastis and big water-jug and lit the scented candles on the terrace above the bay and Paul and Jeannine and the rest of them were beginning to arrive and Therese was telling them what there would be to eat . |
| 6 | This is a delight that the creme-de-la-creme of the SNCF catering staff will find out about when they take over the London-Leeds line kitchens in October . |
| 7 | The Swindon Robins are facing Black Thursday next week when they take on the Oxford Cheetahs at Blunsdon . |
| 8 | How would you like to lead out the Merseyside Select XI at Goodison Park a week tomorrow when they take on the pride of Manchester in Graeme Sharp 's testimonial game ? |
| 9 | Marine boss Roly Howard takes charge of the HFS League representative side for the ninth consecutive season tonight , when they take on an F.A . |
| 10 | WALES skipper Gareth Llewellyn hopes his side can reach their target of six wins out of six when they bring down the curtain on their African tour against the South African Barbarians in Windhoek today . |
| 11 | IRELAND 'S bowlers bounced right back into contention in the Men 's U-25 Home International Championships in Carlisle yesterday when they shrugged off an opening match defeat from England to beat Scotland and stay in contention for the title . |
| 12 | Green and Maskelyne embarked in the Princess Louisa at Spithead on 9 September 1763 and reached Barbados on 7 November , when they set up an observatory ashore and began observations to settle the longitude of the island . |
| 13 | The French , despite an exceptionally tough policy , still have interest rates above the German level because they are unable to persuade the markets they mean what they say when they rule out a devaluation . |
| 14 | The , the , the anomaly here this is when they set up the C C T legislation , all the services contracted out had to make a of return that 's a profit in any language and that to me is a commercial decision and should never have been exempted from the very start anyway . |
| 15 | TEN tourists were injured yesterday when they jumped off a chair lift to escape a brush fire on Mount Solaro in the Mediterranean island of Capri . |
| 16 | Horan and de Kretser cornered some of those upper cases for Ceylon in Colombo on January 7 when they mowed down the visitors in their second innings for 46 and inflicted a ‘ pair ’ of ducks on Waddy himself . |
| 17 | THE London Monarchs made the sort of World League history they could do without when they gave up a record eight turnovers in Saturday 's 13–7 defeat at Barcelona Dragons . |
| 18 | I could not have turned my head nor moved my hands from where they hung on the straps of the rucksack . |
| 19 | Everything , and all menus are available from , I mean I , I do n't where they take out a listing of , well I do n't where they . |
| 20 | By two weeks they have arrived in the lungs where they migrate up the bronchi and trachea , are swallowed , and return to the small intestine . |
| 21 | They refused to say why they carried out the operation but stressed that no-one was arrested . |