Example sentences of "what they [verb] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'll see what they say see what they say afterwards . |
| 2 | ‘ Still , ’ said Toby , ‘ I 'd like to know what they did do . |
| 3 | But that was exactly what they did want , a whole album . |
| 4 | What they did want was a spacious , easy-to-fly machine that was cheap to buy , long-lasting , simple to fix without the benefit of workshop facilities , and had a half-ton payload with superlative short-field performance . |
| 5 | One Sunday morning , that was precisely what they did want . |
| 6 | But erm they 're bloody daft if they did what they did last time anyway ! |
| 7 | What they did realise was that their grand design must afford an acceptable challenge for both the average player and the accomplished player . |
| 8 | Yeah but yo , that 's what they did change , you looking for the fault ? |
| 9 | But what they did suffer from — and what finally split them — is a time gap . |
| 10 | What they did achieve in terms of breadth was a nice balance among kinds of schools , geographical positions and rural/inner city contrasts . |
| 11 | Would it be out of order to ask what they do get paid , or what they did get paid ? |
| 12 | What they did precipitate , however , was the entry into politics of the trade unions and the working class . |
| 13 | The ‘ middle class ’ activists did not necessarily support all the actual policies of the national party , but what they did support was the form of policymaking , and the right of the leadership to make policy . |
| 14 | What they did seem in agreement on was their criticism of the university authorities and the government which allowed such actions to go unchallenged . |
| 15 | Although they did n't , they did n't act illegally , they did n't say right , we 're going to make the redundancy payment act , but what they did say you retire at fifty , we will make your we will enhance your pension to what you would have got at age sixty , we will enhance your lump sum to what you would have got at age sixty and erm give you a redundancy payment from the firm and obviously everybody fifty and plus they 've gone in thousands , they had enormous waiting lists and then they had to say no , you ca n't go you know , too many people wanted to go . |
| 16 | Because what they did try and do is buy the catholic club did n't they ? |
| 17 | What they did deny were ‘ indicative ’ signs , by which we could be led to indirect knowledge of something naturally hidden , such as pores in the skin . |
| 18 | Colnaghi contributed little to American museums in these years ( the 1930s and 1940s ) and what they did sell betrayed an unwillingness to adapt to the times . |
| 19 | ‘ So I started by reviewing what they did have . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | What they did have was the word ‘ Leeds ’ : often the only English word they knew , passed on to them by relatives who had been early immigrants . |
| 22 | ‘ Apparently it 's coming to an end , ’ said Julia , ‘ and the commissioners have found that a great many of the Italians they tried to reward for what they did have refused to take any money at all . |
| 23 | What they did have to have was er an official company or order |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | It was pointed out that candidates obtaining low marks in public examinations were demonstrating more of what they did not know than what they did know . |
| 26 | But that 's just the point — it 's dismal and bleak and they 're frozen stiff , hoping to catch Ramirez in the stake- out and barely able to express anything , but what they do express is infinitely lugubrious and despondent . |
| 27 | Neither dark nor dumb ceremonies , but … so set forth that every man may understand what they do mean , and to what use they do serve . |
| 28 | A dispute over what they do mean is , in principle , like a legal dispute over the meaning of a statute . |
| 29 | What they do suggest indirectly , however , is that the economic rhetoric and even the orthodox economic beliefs of politicians bear nothing like a direct relationship to economic reality . |
| 30 | what , what they do want . |