Example sentences of "[Wh adv] they [verb] [vb pp] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed not to be a good idea , at this stage of the group 's life , to comment on these similarities , which might have made Mr E even more conspicuously different from his colleagues , especially since , as well as asking insight-generating questions , they had told him how they had handled things better , which had moved Mr E to reject their suggestions as unworkable with somebody like Dave . |
| 2 | How they had seen deer twice the size of anything in England and bears such as this one , which would crush a horse in its huge , muscular arms . |
| 3 | The stranger must have heard everything , even how they had robbed Mr Sowerberry ! |
| 4 | Or how they had inflicted cuts with a small sharp knife , then sprinkled salt into the wounds and kicked him round the room so he had to twist sharply and feel the pain of the salt crystals in the raw open flesh . |
| 5 | Certainly they would have had much to talk about , recalling voyages up the New England coast ; how they had dared storms together and mixed with tough Maine characters at the Jonesport summer ball , or how one of Peters 's cruises had been christened after the four B's which constituted their provisions : beans , bacon , bread , and bananas . |
| 6 | Some of them had found making love an enjoyable experience but others talked about how they had found sex an anti-climax , especially the first time . |
| 7 | She thought about the Josephs , apparently guilty of an especially heartless and greedy crime , and wondered how they had got drugs into the United States and whether they would ever do so again . |
| 8 | The research will document the manner in which Metropolitan Committees have organised their consideration of such ideas and how they have developed policy proposals . |
| 9 | It was the culmination of a remarkable advance by the SPD since the late 1950s , when they had lost election after election . |
| 10 | That glory of hair gone and she had never noticed , not even on Saturday when they had said goodbye . |
| 11 | Here was McCreery 's HQ giving the widest possible interpretation to the term " allied national " to include anyone " born within pre-1939 , frontier of an " Allied country " , which of course would also have covered all Russian emigres regardless of when they had left Russia . |
| 12 | Mills , also the Widnes chairman , has been in charge of Wales since their reintroduction two years ago since when they have beaten France twice and Papua New Guinea . |
| 13 | I do n't know cos I 've never actually erm been in a place where they 've done sort of thing really . |
| 14 | You might other roundabouts where they 've got satellite roundabouts . |
| 15 | There were two doggies in their pens still sparkers you know where they 've had things |
| 16 | just been on where they 've had unemployment and loss of jobs and the Tory 's held it . |
| 17 | They returned to the stand-pipe where they 'd got water from earlier , to find the tanker gone . |
| 18 | They reached the great river at Old Melrose , at the foot of Lauderdale , and followed it down to Kelso , where they had made contact with Sir Simon Fraser , who was not exactly besieging Balliol in Roxburgh Castle but containing him there , with the Warden 's force , to prevent him joining Edward Plantagenet at Berwick . |
| 19 | He had taken her to lunch at La Noblesse where they had eaten cod in a watercress sauce and drunk between them a bottle of Chinon , Clos de l'Echo ‘ 86 . |
| 20 | I had with the permission of the deputy general secretary leave of conference yesterday I was in London to be told of a further nine hundred redundancies from a company that a short time ago was telling us , and if you look at my report you 'll have to delete the first paragraph where they had secured orders and the security of our members ' employment only to be told yesterday , nine hundred will go . |
| 21 | They walked , he directing her , to the small drawing-room where they had had tea the first afternoon . |
| 22 | On Wednesday he had escorted Alice to the Grand Theatre at Margate where they had watched Charley 's Aunt . |
| 23 | She took a seat and from it she saw nurses going in and out of the cubicle where they had taken Robbie . |
| 24 | Later still , at the nearby hospital where they had taken Martin , the Inspector and his sergeant talked in muted tones in the darkened corridor outside the casualty department . |
| 25 | He seemed most excited by the project the centre has already launched in Senegal , where they have implemented LOGO in Wolof , the country 's language . |
| 26 | Rats are normally very good at remembering where they have received reinforcement but lose this ability after hippocampal damage . |
| 27 | Times running out , but the local thing , not the local , that 's the thing , er , appeared on on , er , the news tonight , er what happened , announced by Home Secretary , I think it was , there , I 'm not quite sure , where children under er , children under sixteen , if they er , do not er , abide by the instruction of the juvenile court where they have conducted misdemeanours . |
| 28 | Advisers should set up and operate a diary system for entry of limitation dates in cases where they have advised clients on the point . |
| 29 | du n no why they 've got Gary Schofield down there because I do n't think with rugby league would it ? |
| 30 | By discussing their family backgrounds , they had achieved some insight into why they had excluded sex from their relationship . |