Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were taken to the XX hospital where they took many photos and asked questions . |
| 2 | Contraction at just one tenth of this rate seemed small beer to astronomers , and was presented by the popular media ( where they took any notice at all ) as another example of a way-out scientific idea that had been undermined by more careful studies . |
| 3 | And they said you know th there should have been a way round it where they kept this couple in there . |
| 4 | ‘ The country areas are a softer option for them where they know some areas are no-gos for us because of manoeuvrability and the terrain . |
| 5 | On the one hand , the new owners of great country houses accepted the life of the landed gentleman , even where they had little land . |
| 6 | After we got that fixed , we stopped in Yellow Stone Park where they had these loos that were just holes in the ground and I dropped the keys to the van down one of them . |
| 7 | After we got that fixed , we stopped in Yellow Stone park where they had these loos that were just holes in the ground and I dropped the keys to the van down one of them . |
| 8 | We took him to a Chinese restaurant where they serve those drinks in coconuts — they 're quite strong and he does n't really drink , but we made him have one anyway , and he quite enjoyed it . |
| 9 | The group of countries where the Swedes felt most alien were Central Europe , Africa and the Middle East , and where they felt less alien was in Latin America , while by far the most important factor was the happiness of the spouse . |
| 10 | Monitors frequent both Oriental and Australian regions where they take many forms , including the giant Komodo Dragon on the Indonesian island of that name . |
| 11 | More than three-quarters of those who are currently in post , even where they receive some remuneration , are amateurs in status , and in many cases in training as well , The extent and quality of their musical education is therefore extremely varied . |
| 12 | or where they change half way down , so you have n't got to keep taking your glasses on and off |
| 13 | Leonard also had a little room in the basement in which a piano was kept , where they spent much time together . |
| 14 | In When We Went to the Zoo by Jan Ormerod ( Walker Books , £7.99 ) , a dad decides to take his small son and daughter to the zoo , where they see all sorts of wonderful animals . |
| 15 | The court heard that customs men later went to a Surrey hotel where they recorded several messages of people trying to contact Melms . |
| 16 | Think of rock concerts where they have those banks of giant speakers grouped together on the stage . |
| 17 | Prior to liability management , banks paid interest on comparatively few deposit liabilities and where they did such rates were not always closely related to market rates . |
| 18 | That day they surrounded the farmhouse of the Baruffini family , where they found several prisoners . |
| 19 | Where they contradicted each other in inessential points there might be room for debate and uncertainty . |
| 20 | So she locked them in a coat closet where they beat each other half to death in the dark for twenty minutes . |
| 21 | Although given a total of fifty-four times on two tours , which was not bad for an apprentice work mounted as a try-out , the nearest Adieu got to central London was the open-air theatre at Finsbury Park , where they danced that summer . |
| 22 | However , if one shift performs better ( and ‘ better ’ might refer to the quality or quantity — or both — of product that is made ) is it because it consists of more conscientious workers ; their conditions of working are better , or they have less distraction ; they are supervised more closely and the conveyor belt moves faster ; or their body clock enables them to work better at some times of the day than others ? |
| 23 | They either assumed that what appeared in such a paper was nonsense or establishment propaganda , or they read such papers as the Manchester Guardian , as it was then called . |
| 24 | ‘ When I wear a fine coat , the working people that I want for models are afraid of me and distrust me , or they want more money from me . ’ |
| 25 | Although they admit some doubt as to the exact mode of formation , King and Williams suggest that a swash bar is formed at low tide , that this bar is overrun by the tide , which produces a series of similar swash bars as it advances up the beach . |
| 26 | Traders and shopkeepers there were not capitalists , although they accepted that definition of themselves in their defence of free enterprise . |
| 27 | Some of the rebel leaders , notably Litster , may have appreciated their military weakness , because they attempted to involve members of the gentry in the revolt , and although they had little support of this nature , the very fact that they hoped to obtain it must argue against an interpretation of the revolt simply in class terms . |
| 28 | Bergkamp equalised for Ajax a minute after the interval although they had several opportunities to add to their score . |
| 29 | Although they met several times a day and were on good terms , the chief superintendent always felt uncomfortable in the commander 's presence : he was an earnest , church-going man who never laughed , never drank , never swore and rarely showed emotion . |
| 30 | Fact : The authors have chosen here to quote undiscounted and out-of-date figures although they make much play of discount rates elsewhere in their article and must be aware that the decommissioning costs concerned arise over a very long period of time stretching to the end of the twenty-first century and beyond . |