Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [Wh adv] [adv] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Making the most of a walk-on role at the start of the campaign , Margaret Thatcher made many Tory candidates realise how much they missed her strong presence on the political stage . |
| 2 | Gaveston knew how much they hated him . |
| 3 | It is a difficult question to know how far they merely duplicate the existing common law powers that arise from the obligation imposed upon the police to preserve the peace , which plainly permit the police to give instructions to limit the numbers at a gathering if that should be necessary to prevent an imminent breach of the peace . |
| 4 | ‘ For the Liberal Democrats to send an elderly gentleman from the NorthEast of England shows how seriously they treat the people of South Wales , ’ says Davies . |
| 5 | Reaction to last year 's Fun Factory , she said , was excellent , with children and parents saying how much they welcomed the event . |
| 6 | It is surprising when parents are asked what their child likes how often they say ‘ Nothing at all ! ’ . |
| 7 | Z Z Top are perhaps the only boogie band with a sense of irony , and their Greatest Hits package shows how brilliantly they combine John Lee Hooker with T-Rex . |
| 8 | The RAF Halton Gymnastic Display Team showed how well they are trained when they performed their sparkling routine in the Empress Ballroom on Friday evening . |
| 9 | First it was necessary for participants to recognise how little they understood of each others ' work , and then to begin to formulate ways of working as a team . |
| 10 | I must leave it to economists to say how much they have learnt from his account , or where they would disagree with it . |
| 11 | It had come as an unpleasant shock to realize how much they knew : those employing the man , that was — the French Haute Police , as they called themselves . |
| 12 | But had it not been to rid herself of her aura of wealth and privilege which had created her feeling that she was the darling of the gods — although the same gods knew how brutally they had treated her — that she had come to the East End to work , and to live as though she really needed to , and to survive on the pittance which she had earned , without bolting back again to luxury and comfort ? |
| 13 | The Local Government Finance Act 1988 imposes a duty on local authorities to calculate how much they needed to raise by way of the poll tax . |
| 14 | Before you go down into the circuit area , increase the speed to 60–70 knots and try the airbrakes to see how badly they snatch and how effective they are . |
| 15 | The major opposition to the poll tax came to the fore only when people realised how much they would have to pay . |
| 16 | People forget how much they 've spent |
| 17 | For weeks the newspapers had been full of stories about it , with , over and over again , people describing how well they lived in this country , how much they loved their homeland , how they did everything to strengthen East German socialism — as if there were not several thousand people leaving the country in a panic at the time . |
| 18 | The concept of standard drinks or units is an attempt to help people understand how much they are drinking . |
| 19 | Similarly , an analysis of the organisational and institutional forms adopted by the West Indians and the abolitionists reveals how strikingly they mirrored each other . |
| 20 | Everyone with shares should have had a payment notice saying how much they owe . |
| 21 | It is very much up to individual groups to decide how long they want to go out , where they want to go and what they want to do , ’ said Mr Nelson . |
| 22 | Once the Suez adventure began , and the Americans realized how totally they had been kept in the dark by London , an " anti-British frenzy " developed in Washington . |
| 23 | … most of the theft-murders that have resulted in capital convictions since the Act have been committed by stupid persons , who had not the sense to see how easily they could be caught , and how much safer it would have been to do the job in a different way . |
| 24 | The recovery of a gold diadem set with garnets as well as jadeite , malachite and turquoise from a Late Predynastic grave at Abydos shows how early they had begun to do so . |
| 25 | Always keep the receipt for expensive things like TVs , video recorders or furniture to prove how much they 're worth . |
| 26 | It could be some months yet before the pensioners know how much they 'll get , and when they 'll get it . |
| 27 | We can now add that controlling ensures that the travellers know how well they are progressing along the route , how correct their map is , and what deviations , if any , they need to make to stay on course . |
| 28 | Every six months we 'll send them a statement showing how much they 've paid in and withdrawn and , more importantly , how much interest they 've earned . |
| 29 | The accompanying letter said how much they enjoyed the tour of Springfields and said Eric could pass on the sticker to his son . |
| 30 | WHEN I WAS GROWING UP , the boys I hung around with used to have competitions to see how long they could go without changing their underpants . |