Example sentences of "[coord] [conj] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | or where they change half way down , so you have n't got to keep taking your glasses on and off |
| 2 | The picture I am trying to convey , and it is one which is borne on me with passionate intensity almost every time I enter a primary school class , is of rigid and often unsuitable instruments ( the centralised curriculum plan , textbooks , methods of assessment ) imposed in situations where they do not apply or where they apply only to a small number of individuals within a group . |
| 3 | Plays about the fractured consciousness of working-class kids who had fought their way through the old class system , emerged on top , and still felt dissatisfied , still realizing that nothing had changed back where they came from , or where they had arrived . |
| 4 | Oh yes , yes , they even had like they used to have savings ' weeks er salute the soldier week , they used to have promotions for National Savings you see and we used to get so much money or where they had a bid thermometer on the car park in Street which is now the extension of the Gala Baths and they used to show how much savings had been put in they used to have targets for people , to put the National Savings in , they used to have an Anglo-American friendship week . |
| 5 | The dead and dying lay either interred or where they fell . |
| 6 | Most mortgagees have required specific consent from such persons to the taking of a charge by the mortgagee over the property or where they consent to a transfer of the property subject to the mortgage , coupled with confirmation from such persons that their rights are postponed to those of the mortgagee under its mortgage . |
| 7 | The army list has provision for a number of characters without specifying who they are or where they come from within Ulthuan — it is assumed that players will like to create their own names and background histories for their characters . |
| 8 | You know that there are many paths leading to the house and from the house , but : ( a ) You do not know how many there are , where they come from , or where they go to . |
| 9 | You never quite know what they do or where they go in winter , though I 'm told Froggy had a sister in the Birmingham area . ’ |
| 10 | Whether these were John 's family or whether there was another brother or sister I do not know , but I have never been able to find out anything about who they were or where they went to . |
| 11 | or where they set tables down by small rivers , |
| 12 | In a similar fashion large companies frequently reduce the cash element or where they supply materials to be processed by subcontractors , increase the prices they charge for these materials . |
| 13 | The Kingfisher offer document , says Dixons , has not disclosed the extent of property disposal profits , or where they have been taken . |
| 14 | The access funds supplement the main package of student support and allow universities , polytechnics and colleges to give discretionary support where access to higher education might be inhibited by financial considerations or where they consider that students face real financial difficulties . |
| 15 | Blindness can strike anyone at any time , regardless of who they are or where they live . |
| 16 | Students , who tend to the left , can choose whether to register in their parents ' homes or where they live in term time . |
| 17 | And thanks to a smart directory — a custom-designed programme by Richard himself — senders can track down the person they want even if they have only the recipient 's first name , or just the vaguest idea of their title or where they work . |
| 18 | James had stayed behind and Lewis had been sullen for the half-hour or so they 'd been walking before suddenly announcing he wanted to be alone . |
| 19 | Or so they 'd heard . |
| 20 | Some were wrapped in special plastic sheets that formed an airtight cover around their bodies ( or certain parts of the body , most often the belly and behind ) , so that the skin perspired all the more readily and the women , or so they believed , would lose weight more quickly . |
| 21 | I am King of England — or so they tell me ! |
| 22 | No elil for miles , or so they tell me . |
| 23 | I did n't suffer from morning sickness but I 've become an insomniac over the months and had the good fortune ( or so they tell me ) to have a healthy foetus that started kicking me at thirteen weeks . |
| 24 | Beauty is , however , only skin deep , or so they tell us . |
| 25 | Or so they tell me . ) |
| 26 | Or so they claim . |
| 27 | Currently on the market are two programs that allow , or so they claim , any printing device to emulate a real PostScript printer . |
| 28 | For an hour or so they continued to travel through the sighing trees , Cleo slumped against Dauntless 's back . |
| 29 | The Arab world , and especially Egypt , embarked upon a revolutionary process , shedding ( or so they thought ) the shackles of imperialism and colonialism , of which Israel remained the most striking example . |
| 30 | He tried not to think of that other night , more than five years ago , when he and Ebenezer had walked this same path , on their way — or so they thought — to release Izzy Kleiber . |