Example sentences of "[Wh adv] they [vb past] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were five of them , and whenever they arrived they came up the woodland track on a big spreader wagon with a battered old van bouncing along behind . |
| 2 | Erm , as I say , she 's like , she 's very democratic , and she 's always asking them what they felt how , how they felt they should tackle it , I mean They had n't decided what the message should be |
| 3 | And it was no comfort having old ladies telling me how they wished they had naturally curly hair . |
| 4 | So many times I have heard someone tell me how they wished they had told the person now dead how much they loved them . |
| 5 | In retrospect , one often wonders how they thought they could possibly succeed . |
| 6 | There were different nuances in terms of what people thought of as the barriers and how they thought they could be overcome . |
| 7 | They also promised to use their friends in the Salvation Army as supports at times when they thought they could not cope by themselves . |
| 8 | Certainly no one set any store by when they said they would conduct their final funeral rites . |
| 9 | You know when they said they were going scuba diving at eight o'clock and did we want to go ? |
| 10 | They walked regardless of the weather : on early spring mornings when the sky was remote and pale as a plover 's egg ; on stormy autumn afternoons when they felt they could reach up and touch the lowering clouds that covered the land like a bruise ; and on frozen winter days when the sky was a white membrane stretched so tight that they could imagine it cracking with the cold . |
| 11 | It was late in the afternoon when they decided they were too exhausted to continue . |
| 12 | It was late in the afternoon when they decided they were too exhausted to continue . |
| 13 | However they said they would continue insisting on an 8pm bedtime and they would keep up the bedtime stories . |
| 14 | The couple were taken to police headquarters for questioning where they admitted they had picked up a man on the night of 10 July by the harbour but did not know him and had only given him a lift into town . |
| 15 | Well you should 've been w yo yo you m you missed a lot last night , you should have been watching erm tt That 's Life , think it was That 's Life , where they had they had them on |
| 16 | I mean if it were the case that we got on the way to establishing an appropriate atmosphere in the colleges , one where women felt comfortable and where they felt they could get the most from their educational experience , I think that would have profound impact on people 's later lives . |
| 17 | From where they sat they were able to study the women in detail . |
| 18 | For example , some respondents in Phoenix 's ( 1991 ) study of white and Afro-Caribbean mothers aged under 20 pointed to their increased control of household resources as one reason why they felt they fared better economically by staying single . |
| 19 | Goodness only knows what makes them tick , or why they thought they could get away with it here . |
| 20 | Wherever they went they represented a frontier of the Kingdom ( Luke 10:1 ) . |