Example sentences of "what they [verb] [vb infin] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But what they did suffer from — and what finally split them — is a time gap . |
| 2 | What they did achieve in terms of breadth was a nice balance among kinds of schools , geographical positions and rural/inner city contrasts . |
| 3 | What they did seem in agreement on was their criticism of the university authorities and the government which allowed such actions to go unchallenged . |
| 4 | What they did have in common , was a relatively poor organizational base among eligible electors and financial dependence on the leaders of industry and finance . |
| 5 | They did n't know much but they told you what they did know in the most cryptic way possible to whet your appetite and make you speculate . |
| 6 | We are very prone to pontificate about what teachers should think about but we do not really know what they do think about : we formulate issues on their behalf . |
| 7 | What they do fall off the back of a lorry ? |
| 8 | What they do have in common is that in all cases industry will be looking for the location where it can make the best profit . |
| 9 | I tell you what they do sell over there , ever so cheap jam and marmalade . |
| 10 | But on the whole once I 've got talking it 's been very successful , and people are always amazed at what they do remember in great detail about how they got things , why they got them , when they got them , and I think by and large the people that I have talked to have found it very interesting to do for themselves as well as for me . |
| 11 | But what they do ask for , and what we should be calling to this government to honour the existing contracts at Swan Hunters , to allow the workers at Swan to complete the work on the three vessels already in the river . |