Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Emily led Mungo round the back of the building , into a small garden full of blowsy , old-fashioned roses , where they shared a weathered bench . |
| 2 | A feature of their new show is a hilarious This Is Your Life , where they ad-lib a potted biography of a victim in the audience to a few hints given by the subject 's so-called friends , and the Christmas Story enacted in a series of styles chosen by those there on the night-Joseph and Mary as a double glazing sales force , for example , sounds tasteless but it 's all surprisingly inoffensive and very funny . |
| 3 | The rebels then returned to Rutherglen Cross where they made a rebellious proclamation before moving off towards Avondale and the Irvine Valley . |
| 4 | Most of them would also have borrowed in the open market , maybe from a clearing bank where they had a current account and the manager had allowed them to draw over and above what was in it — an overdraft ( the cheapest way of borrowing ? ) — or perhaps a Personal Loan . |
| 5 | courses in turn , tended to select for observation those schools where they had a good relationship with the drama specialist . |
| 6 | Then , putting it on and pulling the collar tight about her throat , she lit the candle that was standing in a holder on her bedside table , and went quietly out and along the corridor to the kitchen , through it and into the scullery , where they had a running tap above a shallow stone sink . |
| 7 | Nicholson 's former colleague , David Price , joined him at the new Locksfields factory , where they began a detailed study of the conditions for making magenta dye . |
| 8 | Apparent exceptions to this trend include sites like Chelmsford , with no known stone defences , and Thorpe-by-Newark , where they take a different alignment . |
| 9 | And where they maintain a cool detachment from their subject , Normski 's in the crowd during his show , dancing alongside the audience . |
| 10 | But all over the pastoral Midlands and the south of England too , the canals flowed clear and sparkling in the sunshine , something new in the landscape with their towpaths , lock-keepers ’ cottages , stables for canal horses , their Navigation or Canal Inns where they met a main road , and their long and narrow gaily painted boats . |
| 11 | Ann worked in British West Hartlepool : severely shelled during World War I , home of Andy Cap and where they hung a shipwrecked monkey in Napoleonic times , in the belief that the poor beast was a Frenchman . |
| 12 | They went to York first , where they visited a wonderful church , York Minster . |
| 13 | In 1814 she followed her actress daughter , now married , to Bridge Town , Barbados , where they opened a thriving school . |
| 14 | Once they start making money , the Centre will then help them move into ‘ safe houses ’ , where they pay a single fee to cover rent and bills . |
| 15 | Mum was getting on by this time and her own health was n't excellent , and I moved to Manchester so we could be near the RMCH where they do a vast amount with CF. We hired a retired nurse to act as housekeeper and she did his physio when I was n't there , and between us we managed to keep him going . ’ |
| 16 | At the same time , recall suppression was discovered when deaf subjects were instructed to hold blocks of wood while watching the presentation of items , in a way similar to suppression experienced by hearing people in tasks where they have a redundant phrase to say aloud at presentation . |
| 17 | The East Europeans complain that these accords penalise them just where they have a competitive advantage — in textile , steel and meat exports . |
| 18 | I 'd say you 're looking for a business where they have a heavy demand for rough paper . |
| 19 | Like other Ministers , Chancellors do not confine themselves solely to matters where they have a departmental interest . |
| 20 | It also allows the designer and the builder to be involved in the project only at those stages where they have a particular expertise . |
| 21 | Many authorities provide in their Standing Orders for the attendance of councillors at meetings of committees of which they are not members where they have a particular interest in certain matters on the agenda . |
| 22 | Also , we observed that males close to the breeding site seem deliberately to sit out on roads , where they have a clear view , and wait to jump on females as they pass . |
| 23 | The mystery was solved when the Allies captured Radio Luxembourg in 1944 , where they found a new type of magnetic tape recorder combining the two inventions already mentioned . |
| 24 | On their arrival back in Bogota , the team started on initial analysis of the data they had collected , prior to their return to the UK where they completed a full report . |
| 25 | In his discussion of two lyric poems Keith Green suggests that the deictic expressions occurring in each text guide the reader in the construction of a context where their symbolic meanings can be realised indexically , i.e. where they perform a referential function . |
| 26 | This Article does not require amendments or modifications to be registered , except where they constitute a new treaty . |
| 27 | Volatile fatty acids ( VFAs ) , are produced by bacterial degradation of non-absorbed dietary carbohydrate and are rapidly absorbed by the colon , where they constitute a significant energy source . |
| 28 | In a spoken message we notice the quality of the voice as well : maybe the speaker 's voice was shaking , or they had a particular accent , or hesitated , or slurred their words . |
| 29 | Or they have a little book where they can look it up . |
| 30 | Many people visit their doctors to have their ears syringed — often because their hearing is impaired or they have a bad earache . |