Example sentences of "[Wh adv] they [vb past] the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A recent research project has certainly proved that a large number of very young babies would stop crying or even go to sleep whenever they heard the introductory music to certain television soap operas . |
| 2 | But the view of both sides in this debate hinged upon how they viewed the so-called law of primitive socialist accumulation . |
| 3 | The essence of what the popes required of the emperors and how they saw the imperial office is enshrined in the imperial oaths taken at the time of coronation and in the prayer at the conferment of the sword . |
| 4 | The purges have proved to be one of the most hotly debated topics for historians because , due to the harsh censorship and killing of many opponents of Stalin , there is a lack of opinion and primary sources which show how they affected the whole country , and nobody could read Stalin 's obviously warped mind to find out his reasons for this holocaust . |
| 5 | But the real dynamite in Packard 's book was his Status Table of jobs , compiled in a University of Chicago study , in which people were asked how they rated the social standing of one profession compared with another . |
| 6 | However , another way of explaining this effect is to ask the subjects how they performed the experimental task . |
| 7 | How they glimpsed the Dark Lords who hold sway there , how they saw that the skies were dull and clotted with evil magic and black bewitchments . |
| 8 | And they revelled in the moment when they mounted the famous ramp at Monte Carlo for photographs . |
| 9 | , 's export administrator , helped lead the Sudbury cricket team to victory earlier this year when they won the premier cricket competition in Suffolk and Essex . |
| 10 | Rangers go to Motherwell knowing that if they avoid defeat they will equal their best unbeaten sequence of matches — 38 — set back in 1975/76 when they won the domestic treble . |
| 11 | Emily 's mind was partly on the enjoyable walk she had taken with Heinrich , who had unexpectedly proved a most delightful companion during the week ; partly on the bright green foulard dress she had seen on sale at Bobby 's in Margate yesterday when they visited the famous menagerie at the Grand Hall by the Sea , and partly it was on the coming evening . |
| 12 | The swimming section was more or less brought back to mind to me the other day when they showed the old Stoke bathing place . |
| 13 | It looks as though USL was valued at around $355m , up $30m from when they did the private placement 18 months ago . |
| 14 | At about the same period the Mongol-speaking Buryats moved into the steppes and forests around the southern end of Lake Baikal , where they subjugated the previous inhabitants . |
| 15 | The Frames were where they grew the special items ; strawberries and lychees , pineapples and oranges , grapes and peaches , cherries and almonds , pears and melons . |
| 16 | Paratroopers were dropped into Croatia , breaking the 10-day siege of Kijevo by Serbs and delivering food and medical supplies , and also into western areas of Bosnia-Herzegovinia , where they released the military convoy held up by Croatians . |
| 17 | It ought to be a single , but it 's filled with an old double bed they must have folded in half to squeeze in here , and the internal walls are cheap partitions from where they gutted the Edwardian interior and crammed in as many cubicles as they could . |
| 18 | Yeah well that 's , that 's where they poured the fucking water over them . |
| 19 | In white hooded overalls and trained for snow warfare , the Commando quickly occupied the two harbours on the westerly island of Moskenesöy , where they found the local Norwegians anxious they should stay in case there were German reprisals . |
| 20 | The French Dragoons did not follow immediately ; instead they spurred into the abandoned wood where they found the Prussian camp-fires still burning . |
| 21 | Two East Midlands Amnesty International members completed a 2,000 mile hitch-hike to Ankara in September where they petitioned the Turkish government on human rights abuses . |
| 22 | But that 's fine as long as the Communist Party can control this sort of growth , and that 's why they introduced the mutual aid teams to sort of counter the |
| 23 | I did n't like to think why they needed the local paper . |
| 24 | That would explain why they used the International Herald Tribune in the photograph . |