Example sentences of "[Wh adv] they [verb] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That 's how they had so much money , all these landlords in those days . |
| 2 | The farmers remember the lawless boom times a decade ago , when they grew as much coca as they could manage for the drug traffickers who came from the other side of the continent to their market town . |
| 3 | She did n't want to quarrel with Maria , today of all days , when they had so little time left together . |
| 4 | I do n't know what the programmers were on when they made up this game , but as Boy 's Own once said about liquid E , if it comes in pints , I 'll have two ! |
| 5 | And is there one where they get so much parties and that cos it 's free ? |
| 6 | That 's where they finish up these days . ’ |
| 7 | There are two sorts of Mudhoney show : the one where they piss about all night and sceptics just scratch bonces and bugger off , and the one where they rip through their best songs , old and new , with hardly a murmur and plenty of bovver . |
| 8 | cos they , that 's the only good garden centre around that 's , that 's why they cost so much |
| 9 | if they 'd keep for Christmas that 's why they charged so much for them , those Mackintosh reds and that , and I mean it told you then in one of those magazines that were , John was reading that he said make sure that you wash those apples before you eat them . |
| 10 | Quantum leaps from working class to the chair of a board of directors of a multinational corporation are rare , which is why they attract so much attention when they occur . |
| 11 | Yeah , I mean , it should n't be in here , like , that 's why they have n't that 's why they 've put it there . |
| 12 | has already said that the Tories do n't seem to have any provision for capital and I 'm dying to know why they have as much to say about the additional buildings as anyone else er I 'd be interested to know what they say . |
| 13 | She wondered why they did n't all run together in the middle . |
| 14 | Once you have become mentally adjusted to the countdown display it becomes very logical and you will wonder why they do n't all work this way ! |
| 15 | I 'm supposed to investigate them to find out why they do n't all fall together . ’ |
| 16 | I wonder why they do all this in Christmas week ? |
| 17 | Erm Freud 's hypothesis is that this religion left Egypt because of the persecution , Moses was one of Akhenaten 's followers who went out into the desert , erm here as I 'll explain in the lectures er some of my own research opens up a new angle on this that Freud did n't know about and why they went out into the desert , why they picked up these er Hebrew erm er immigrants who were living on the fringes of the Egyptian Empire . |
| 18 | The endurance of rivers , which is part of what makes them such a potent symbol in our culture , is also precisely the reason why they matter so much to ecologists and scientists . |
| 19 | That explains why they moved out that way . ’ |