Example sentences of "[Wh adv] they [vb past] [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ Huh , that is n't very grateful , seeing as how they left you alive . |
2 | With two National Division Four North games to play , are on course to clinch their third promotion in the last four season when they made it ten out of ten league wins with their slender 3–0 success Stourbridge . |
3 | ‘ It must have been in the forest — ’ Joan said dreamily ‘ — because that is where they found him next day . |
4 | No , so that 's why they had it two till three that day . |
5 | ‘ He put his arms up to protect his face and that is why they took it all . |
6 | Even those who were royal servants , like Archbishop Reynolds himself , by their efforts in the preceding months and years to reconcile king and barons had demonstrated their concern with the peace of the community , which may explain also why they thought it prudent to prefer the Despensers — able royal servants that they were — to the unpredictable and scarcely less disruptive earl of Lancaster . |
7 | But what they wonder why they gave us some swords ! |
8 | I do n't know why they decided it that way . |