Example sentences of "[Wh adv] the [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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| 31 | In the hour before dawn , when the islanders ' forces knew that the raid on the Rebecca had started , they rose and advanced against the Belmont stockade , thinking to find only the skeleton watch Kit posted nightly and everyone else in their beds . |
| 32 | It takes visual sensitivity to realise that a meandering medieval street is quite different from the traffic engineers ' meandering street and this is why the consultants ' perspective drawings look so horribly wrong . |
| 33 | That 's why the workers ' weekly pennies went to pay men like Bobby to speak for them and that 's just what Bobby Keith could do best . |