Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At St Martin 's School of Art , where they 'd met three years previously , they had already decided to make themselves the subject of their art . |
| 2 | Never one to wallow in self-pity , he 'd started by mugging a couple of Indian kids in bright shirts behind the bus station and then he 'd followed a Yuppie type from his bank 's Cashcard machine to the stairway of a multi-storey car park , where they 'd had some dealings involving a Rolex and all the wad in the Yuppie 's wallet . |
| 3 | where they 've got that ghost in the house |
| 4 | And she was laying up by the quay by where they 've got those |
| 5 | Some directors of the House of Industry had trespassed on workhouse premises , where they had lopped some trees without permission . |
| 6 | They were already in some difficulty in northern Tonkin , where they had abandoned some of their isolated posts , so that , once again , it was the presence of China — shadow , perhaps , rather than substance — which was helping to transform the appreciations and perception of the struggle . |
| 7 | Turkey has an excuse for its ignorance : the objects , it says , were looted from tombs where they had lain undisturbed for 2,500 years . |
| 8 | His wife had been an islander by birth and after she died he decided to live there where they had spent many happy holidays . |
| 9 | A month ago they , together with the males , left the burrows on the floor of the forest inland where they had spent most of the year and began a long march to the coast . |
| 10 | He 'd survived where they had eliminated some of his followers because they took him at his own estimation , a man of the cloth . |
| 11 | Early on an August Saturday morning they set off at a great pace on the west side of the reservoir with the intention of following the ten mile bridleway right round the reservoir to a pub , where they planned to arrive two hours after opening time . |
| 12 | A little later on she dropped Edna and Karen in Oxford Street , where they planned to do some shopping before catching the train home . |
| 13 | People trained at the Institute of Information Technology , established by MITI in 1971 , return to their original companies — users , mainframers or software houses — where they help to train junior engineers and programmers . |
| 14 | Polworth sheep , a crossbreed from the famous Merino which originated in Australia , are now bred in the pure environment of the Falkland Isles , where they mature to produce superb heavy fleeces . |
| 15 | ‘ A small minority of Members of Parliament after these weeks and months of debate have still been unable to tell us what they want , where they want to lead this country and who is going with them . ’ |
| 16 | Therefore , very large firms which have secured a degree of market dominance will often prefer independence or , where they do retain formal employers ' association membership , may have ‘ nonconforming ’ status whereby they are not required to follow the terms of a national agreement and disputes procedure ( such as a number of firms in the Chemical Industries Association in Britain , including ICI and Glaxo ) . |
| 17 | The Liberal Democrats had the highest share of the vote in several authorities where they have proven local government strength . |
| 18 | Possible Lower Palaeozoic sources will only be of interest where they have escaped premature maturation brought on by burial under thick Devonian cover , a factor very difficult to assess ahead of analytical work in areas where the Devonian has itself suffered erosion . |
| 19 | For example , in areas close to the sea the newcomers have been predominantly retired couples whose impact i n the local housing market has again caused resentment in those regions where they have become concentrated , such as Devon and Cornwall . |
| 20 | However , that is a mechanical provision : Williams v Singer is authority for the proposition that the trustees can not be assessed where they have made such a direction . |
| 21 | This means assessing their likes and dislikes by means of preference tests where they can simply choose between different options , or ‘ operant conditioning ’ tests where they have to perform some task such as pecking a button to get access to ( or to exit from ) a particular environment . |
| 22 | Some have argued that the TNCs have disrupted traditional family life where they have hired more women than men , for example along Mexico 's northern border ( see Fernandez-Kelly , in Nash and Fernandez-Kelly , 1983 ) . |
| 23 | A good pile is made of the birch twigs ; then , when all is ready , the handful of needle-thins is taken from the pocket ( where they have left much of their moisture ) , put into the fire centre , and carefully lit with a match . |
| 24 | The senior nurse now acts as a support , resource and coordinator and a flattened hierarchy results : the senior nurse is the key to the professional development of staff who often come from a traditional nursing culture , where they have had little accountability . |
| 25 | Inadequate timetabling , the organisation of lessons during lunchtimes and instead of normal lessons or assemblies , the allocation of unsatisfactory classrooms , the poor arrangement of furniture for learning purposes , the lack of suitable materials — all these factors tend to discourage learners of community languages , especially where they have had little influence on the choice of their subject options when a community language is involved . |
| 26 | Where they have considered human reasons these have tended to be simplistic explanations of defence or relationships to field systems and land uses . |
| 27 | ANDREW SMITH 'S TIP : After spawning is complete the male gathers all the eggs together and compacts them all into the size of a hazelnut , where they begin to turn yellow then grey and finally black when the fry hatch out . |
| 28 | ‘ Generally Designers start by going to Art School where they begin doing Basic Design before , later , they specialise in some form of three dimensional design . |
| 29 | Where they tended to go wrong was at the micro rather than at the macro level : a mishandling of the relationship between parts rather than the parts themselves . |
| 30 | That 's actually on all critical illness cover plans , because if they 've got a living assurance , or they 've got some other plan that 's got critical illness benefit , it 's the total maximum that Abbey will insure them for , for critical illness , for heart attacks , stroke etcetera . |