Example sentences of "[Wh adv] they [vb past] [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You just ca n't envisage , you know , why and how they managed to afford such extravagant graves , and it 's like on two sides of a road , on one side you can only go in , and if you 're on a guided tour , erm , otherwise you 've got to , be like , somebody to do with the grave . |
| 2 | He became particularly interested in how they managed to combine this well-organized and criminal activity with an image of themselves as law-abiding citizens . |
| 3 | She bent over to show me how they tried to eat this dust . |
| 4 | that 's right , erm she had said at the time when they had raised all this money that er mostly gon na be spent on erm |
| 5 | I wondered when they had known each other and why the parents had never mentioned the affair to me ? |
| 6 | She had not seen him arrive at her home , since she had not known who he was when they had encountered each other in the garden — but she had seen him leave . |
| 7 | There was one in erm here where they 'd done that . |
| 8 | The two groups returned safely to Jalo , where they had to wait some time for news of Jock Lewes and Bill Fraser . |
| 9 | So they had this girl which they showed er , where they had to break all the bone up under here |
| 10 | They went through the ruins of the outer office and into the dark , fire-blackened space beyond where they had found most of the bodies . |
| 11 | They placed bombs on two isolated aircraft and then headed for the hangars where they expected to find some worthwhile booty . |
| 12 | ‘ They must know why their husbands and fathers were away so long — and why they had to face such dangers . ’ |
| 13 | wondering why they chose to walk this way quietly |
| 14 | Yes , that 's why they started beating each other up . |
| 15 | Obviously , if they wanted to put a lurid picture on the cover , or a picture of a cock , we would ask them why they wanted to do such a thing , ’ says Marshall . |
| 16 | Maybe , Liz reflects ( for this is what she contemplates , through the oval mirror ) , maybe this is why they decided to have such a party , this year , at the end of this decade : as a sign that they had weathered so much , and were now entering a new phase ? |