Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] [pron] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some German military police took Tribe prisoner and locked him in a barn , where they shot him fifteen minutes later . |
| 2 | The big city station from which they saw off their loved ones to war , from where they left for their honeymoons and holidays , where they kept their romantic trysts under the station clock , has been obliterated or at the very least altered out of all recognition . |
| 3 | Haberdashers ' batting against Johor State at Ceylon CC , Singapore , where they suffered their only defeat in six matches , four of which ended in victory for the touring school . |
| 4 | The Chieftains rarely enjoy their trips to South London , where they suffered their heaviest defeat of the season 16–3 in December . |
| 5 | So I see evaluation as a very democratic activity , which allows people perhaps to appreciate each other 's viewpoints a little more than might otherwise be the case erm and does n't pretend that people all feel the same about things , but at the same time it does n't attempt to sort of countermand the realities of the situation that , you know , each person ca n't go their own sweet way , there have to be quite a lot of collective decisions and people have to recognise where the majority opinion is , but at least they do it from a standpoint that erm where they feel their own value still has some worth and is still being recognised . |
| 6 | But ask state workers where they buy their new outfits , be it of traditional African cloth or stylish jeans , and the answer is likely to be Rock Santeiro . |
| 7 | This is where they do such good , where they really make a visit worth while and where they learn what ordinary people think , need and feel . |
| 8 | Outside the hospital , ASAP students lead peer discussions through several short video triggers developed by ASAP , or they create their own trigger role-plays about their own lives or about the stories they 've heard in the hospital and jail . |
| 9 | Labels — either London print these or they send us blank labels for CAW organisers and church leaders print-out . |
| 10 | Just one in 10 single girls want to marry one , although they like their future husband to have good job prospects . |
| 11 | They were persuaded to do so by friends in aid of a ‘ good cause ’ , although they keep their 17th-century house firmly locked with curtains drawn . |
| 12 | Generics and conceptual anaphora ( Gernsbacher 1986 ) , and subsets resulting from quantification ( Moxey & Sanford 1987 ) may be included in this group , although they present their own problems for anaphoric interpretations . |
| 13 | His family was moved to a modest family home nearby , although they retained their other house in Mayfair , London . |
| 14 | I mean I 've got , some of my best friends are fucking sub contractors as you know , really good friends , I mean Jonesy brilliant friend , a great friend , a nice geezer , er Bill beautifully bloke , really nice , but they should be the first ones out the door , Rumbolds should think more of their permanent staff than they do their fucking contractors staff that 's what makes this company work , that 's what makes this company worst than all the rest , ok , you get , you get Union companies which are , must employ sub contractors all the time , |
| 15 | Why should Paul 's preaching have so provoked the Nazarean hierarchy that they sent their own emissaries in his wake to discredit him ? |
| 16 | Prior to his arrival Sotheby 's ( still specialising heavily in books at this date ) had an unwritten agreement with Christie 's that they sent them any pictures brought to their offices and in return Christie 's sent them any books they received for sale . |
| 17 | We are led to the conclusion that 11a is grammatically but not semantically deviant by the fact that substitutes for bake which normalise the sentence ( e.g. shake , forsake ) , as a class , have no distinctive semantic attributes ( that is to say , members of the class share no characteristic patterns of co-occurrence with other open set elements that differentiate them from non-members ) ; however , they do share a grammatical peculiarity , which is that they form their past participles with — en . |
| 18 | It must be made clear to students that they retain their Compact entitlements and may redeem them for employment within Compact companies whenever they leave education , whether at 16+ , 18+ or after higher education . |
| 19 | With regard to the latter , it should be noted that many Glasgow deaf church members around that time were very religious and so strongly disapproved of drinking that they formed their own temperance Society , the Glasgow Mutual Improvement Society . |
| 20 | Some enjoyed themselves so much that they formed their own team in the league . |
| 21 | Workers at Dowty aerospace can at least take comfort in one thing — the firms management say that they hope their streamlining programme is now at an end and that no further major redundancies will be announced . |
| 22 | When people start appealing to ‘ truth ’ , ‘ experience ’ and ‘ reality ’ , still more to ‘ the fundamental character of reality ’ , they imply very strongly that they know what these things are , an insight not likely to be shaken by argument . |
| 23 | Each solicitor confirms that they hold their own client 's part of the contract in the agreed form ; agree forthwith to insert the agreed completion date . |
| 24 | it 's , it 's , it 's ridiculous I just think it 's very unfair that they regard you that way . |
| 25 | They often eat weeds and weed seeds and their economy of intake is illustrated by the fact that they consume their own droppings . |
| 26 | It does n't necessarily mean that they 're unscrupulous in the way that they get their own way ; they just have very clear ideas and it 's impossible for them to see it any other way . ’ |
| 27 | Or stood in despair as your children big or little , carry on ignoring your repeated demands that they stop whatever undesirable thing it is that they are doing ? |
| 28 | But tutors were so impressed with the two girls ' work in textiles that they made them unconditional offers . |
| 29 | Milton ward Tories were so impressed by his la-de-da-accent and gold-plated walking stick that they made him social secretary . |
| 30 | TASK 7 demanded that they express their personal feelings in relation to the experience of being ignored or bored . |