Example sentences of "[Wh det] they [verb] do [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Blakey kept on asking them what they 'd done that day . |
| 2 | You know , telling us everything about the Tories , what they 've done wrong and to go on from that , not telling us anything about how you 're gon na put it right . |
| 3 | This was to assume that the Danish people would change their minds of their own volition ; that they had been so overcome by the enormity of what they had done that they would hardly be able to wait to get back to the polling stations to put it all right . |
| 4 | What they want to do next is to use deuterium and tritium together in the machine , since the dt reaction releases more energy per fusion than does the dd , and so Princeton hope that the faster energy release might enable them to cross the breakeven threshold . |
| 5 | We beat them , so now they can concentrate on the league and not worry about the cup and risk more injuries , because what they want to do most of all is get back in division one and as a soon as they do that they 'll drop back down again , because they 're not that good really . |
| 6 | That pair had you cornered , and heaven alone knew what they intended to do next if I had n't risked both life and limb by stepping in to help you . |
| 7 | What they decided to do many years ago was what lots of people in public positions do — use the TV to step out into the public gaze . |
| 8 | They , they know what they have to do to protect that stock , to protect their life 's interests and they , and they know they do n't need to be told really by any officer here who are not in that not , not in that game , what they have to do that 's what they 're asking us to do and they certainly asked us to do that on the erm , on the tour of county farms that we had only , only a few weeks ago . |
| 9 | Erm well I think , what they have to do first , is |