Example sentences of "[Wh adv] they [vb past] [adv] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As they rode , Thomas told Corbett more about the Picti , how they had once ruled Scotland , even launching raids across the great Roman wall to the south to pillage and plunder Rome 's colonies . |
| 2 | And Fenella remembered the thin , frayed legend of how the Earth-people , at one time in their history , had created a race of machines and how they had then created machines to run the machines and how it had all got out of hand . |
| 3 | This domination eventually came more because of what the forwards were doing when they had not won possession as when they had . |
| 4 | They were relaxed , joking amongst themselves ; it was a relief to be on a march where they did n't expect trouble after the last few weeks of demonstrations and violence . |
| 5 | U-boat alley was the gap in mid-Atlantic where they did n't have air cover from Britain or Canada , but Preston always imagined it a bit like the alley at the back of their houses with a U-boat at each end firing torpedoes at Grandad as he hopped and scuttled down it on his way to the Turk 's Head . |
| 6 | If this were the case it would explain why they had not held meetings on this occasion . |
| 7 | Grantham Hospital chiefs were last night being asked why they did not notice symptoms of the syndrome in Allitt before she started on the children 's ward . |