Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The L3 travel to the brain , where they cause an eosinophilic meningoencephalitis , which may prove fatal . ] |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The rebels then returned to Rutherglen Cross where they made a rebellious proclamation before moving off towards Avondale and the Irvine Valley . |
| 5 | She was consoled , too , to have them in her house where they made an uncommon amount of noise and were certainly not easy guests but their beaming countenances and determination to look on the bright side of everything lightened the atmosphere immensely . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | On 15 September some 80 guests were present at an Overseas Reception at London Weekend Television House , where they had a first class view of the flypast from the eighteenth floor . |
| 8 | courses in turn , tended to select for observation those schools where they had a good relationship with the drama specialist . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | These will have hatched from spawn laid far offshore , in water as deep as two hundred metres and , having spent their larval stage swimming free in the ocean , they spend the next two , sometimes three years inshore where they form an important part of the food for many sea-birds and also for seals and otters . |
| 12 | Apparent exceptions to this trend include sites like Chelmsford , with no known stone defences , and Thorpe-by-Newark , where they take a different alignment . |
| 13 | Some of them were absorbed by the empire , where they constructed an administrative system remarkable for the degree of local autonomy exercised within it , and where they pursued , amid uncomprehending but generally unresisting natives , dreams of winning the trust and loyalty of their charges by their integrity , fairness , firmness , and likableness . |
| 14 | At Itxassou there are numbers of these simple memorial stones set in a fringe along the church wall , where they make an affecting counterweight to the overblown and ugly modern gravestones and monuments all around you . |
| 15 | It gave a clear hint that the threat could come from either the public or the private sectors , and it set out a number of principles for handling personal information which , as the Younger Principles , have become famous ; they survive in recognisable form in the Schedule of the Data Protection Act of 1984 , where they assume an unusual importance . |
| 16 | And where they maintain a cool detachment from their subject , Normski 's in the crowd during his show , dancing alongside the audience . |
| 17 | At the same time , late nineteenth-century American petit-bourgeois music culture still retained ‘ progressive ’ elements , unlike its European equivalent , which by then was mostly intent on hedonistic quiescence ; and the active , energetic components of this anti-elitist , common-man tradition ( in vaudeville for example ) fed through into early Tin Pan Alley song where they formed an uneasy synthesis with the tendency to conservative mass-production stereotypes . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | They went to York first , where they visited a wonderful church , York Minster . |
| 21 | In 1814 she followed her actress daughter , now married , to Bridge Town , Barbados , where they opened a thriving school . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . ’ |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The East Europeans complain that these accords penalise them just where they have a competitive advantage — in textile , steel and meat exports . |
| 26 | I 'd say you 're looking for a business where they have a heavy demand for rough paper . |
| 27 | Like other Ministers , Chancellors do not confine themselves solely to matters where they have a departmental interest . |
| 28 | It also allows the designer and the builder to be involved in the project only at those stages where they have a particular expertise . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |