Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.

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1 In the nervous nineties , when the Me generation has grown into the Us generation , we will be looking for Our Shop rather than just an emporium where they stock personal stereos by the thousand .
2 We were taken to the XX hospital where they took many photos and asked questions .
3 Botswana Two BGS staff remained on secondment to the Botswana Geological Survey Department , where they fill established posts of principal regional geologist and hydrogeologist .
4 They are almost unmineralised except where they contain tectonic slices of the underlying Lewisian basement .
5 ‘ 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 .
6 Dr Gilvear 's study found that most often the breaches in the embankments occurred where they overlaid old channels and were vulnerable to erosion .
7 The veins are often auriferous where they cut graphitic shales but not where the host rocks consist of non-graphitic arenites .
8 I kept banging my way to and from the can , where they had incredible pictures of nude chicks front magazines all over the wall .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 Eventually they reached a stage where they became integrated units .
13 Monitors frequent both Oriental and Australian regions where they take many forms , including the giant Komodo Dragon on the Indonesian island of that name .
14 However , they are less obviously to be seen in the academic community as a whole than in the discrete disciplinary sub-cultures , where they take different forms ( Becher 1989 ) .
15 It turned out to be the food market , where they sold swollen watermelons and aubergines and strange shaped fruits .
16 We used to go on Lord Street and he used to be where they sold luscious cakes .
17 The scents of north African cooking , of couscous , of saffron and cumin and turmeric j street-markets , where they sold powdered dyes and spices , sticks of sandalwood for burning , little piles of henna powder and ground indigo .
18 In the summertime , it is alive with hot fumes and rampant dogs and fashionable bathers crawling up Highgate Road on their way to the Heath , where they claim respective ponds and languor till the sky slowly turns to a soothing summer gold .
19 DAVID Hunt was lobbied by trade unionists yesterday when he visited offices where they claim 1,000 jobs are under threat .
20 Known as Cadians , they founded a new homeland in the backwoods of south Louisiana , where they discovered bountiful supplies of game — rabbit , squirrel , pigeon and deer , and helpful native Indians who taught them how to make the most of local wild produce .
21 Woil had told him that where they flew golden eagles would be near .
22 From 1934 he was responsible for the introduction on the LMS of substantial numbers of diesel-electric locomotives for heavy-duty service in marshalling yards , where they showed great economies over steam and were the forerunners of more than 1,400 of this type on British Railways .
23 Some rich men took utterly destitute people into their houses , where they performed menial services , and it was usual for even the moderately well-off to invite poor men and strangers off the street to eat meals at home .
24 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 .
25 Im afraid its the usual pro footballer thing where they say nice things about the club they ve just joined .
26 The court heard that customs men later went to a Surrey hotel where they recorded several messages of people trying to contact Melms .
27 Sometimes field names can help , particularly where they have habitative elements within them , such as -tun endings .
28 A film editor friend has just come back from a couple of weeks of yoga , a music producer I know goes to St James , Piccadilly , where they have spiritual talks on a Monday evening , while a designer friend does Chi-Kung , a Chinese movement like Tai-Chi , where you have to ‘ stand like a tree ’ .
29 Think of rock concerts where they have those banks of giant speakers grouped together on the stage .
30 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 .
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