Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | What is more , the old iron trucks with their armour plating are still lying rusting beside the old Kubri road just where they came to a halt in 1948 , the wheels stripped of their tyres but their iron bullet shields still intact . |
| 2 | It took the three of them over an hour to reach the bottom of the slope , where they came to a halt . |
| 3 | It is a question many mothers ask as they receive their dead children home from wars , mountain tops and London lavatories where they died of an overdose . |
| 4 | On his death in 1857 he left his books and manuscripts to Morden College , Blackheath , where they survive in a building designed for them by Philip Hardwick [ q.v . ] . |
| 5 | The rabbit 's breeding chamber is some 4 or 5 feet ( 1.25 – 1.5 metres ) long and the young are born in a nest of hair where they stay for a month . |
| 6 | Shortly afterwards they were outward bound for the Great Barrier Reef where they cruised for a year in search of a dream . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Some older people are keen to live in sheltered accommodation where they hope for a combination of independence and security . |
| 9 | Not many miles away , two estates meet , between Wootton and Steeple Barton , precisely where they met in a charter dated 958 , and possibly for some considerable time before that . |
| 10 | The flaps stood up on either side of her ankle , and were laced together where they met in a stiff ridge over her foot . |
| 11 | Metasedimentary rocks are common in south Harris where they occur on a large scale in well-defined belts extending for considerable distances ; up to 15 km in places . |
| 12 | The connections are sealed joints and only the Electricity Board may make these joints and provide the two service wires to each house , where they terminate in a sealed , fused container . |
| 13 | The Chiefs of Staff took the unusual step of going down to the Royal Naval College , Greenwich , in the late spring of 1952 , where they worked for a fortnight on Churchill 's requirement with their principal scientific and technological advisers , free from the day-to-day hubbub of Whitehall . |
| 14 | After dinner he went out with four of the ladies from Leicester , including his special friend Pamela Berry , to The Crown , where they sat in a corner of the lounge bar until closing time . |
| 15 | A favourite place was Newbeggin-in-Teesdale where they stayed at a farm and where he learned to ride . |
| 16 | Goody suggests that written language has two main functions : the first is the storage function which permits communication over time and space , and the second is that which ‘ shifts language from the oral to the visual domain' and permits words and sentences to be examined out of their original contexts , ‘ where they appear in a very different and highly ‘ abstract ’ context' ( 1977 : 78 ) . |
| 17 | Doug reaches intermittently into his crisp packet and feeds them into his mouth where they blend into a rubbery combination of mixed mash . |
| 18 | They wandered down a small incline where they stopped on a bridge and stared down into the browny green water . |
| 19 | As in Calcutta — where England were beaten by eight wickets — and Madras , where they lost by an innings and 22 runs , the English batsmen had no answers to the spin bowling . |
| 20 | I mean either they opt for a family , or they opt for a job . |
| 21 | A national survey of parent education and support found that all too often parents were seen as falling into one of two camps : either they were coping adequately and were considered to need no assistance , or they fell below an accepted level of ‘ good parenting ’ and became the focus of immediate state intervention ( Pugh and De'Ath , 1984 ) . |
| 22 | She thanked them for their efforts but although they waited for a tip it was not forthcoming , so they went off grumbling . |
| 23 | Although they suffer from a shortage of personnel themselves it is the young churches who are now providing the Church with missionaries . |
| 24 | Although they came from a different factory , their designer was the same ‘ Mac ’ Marshall , then freelancing , who had designed the other streamliners . |
| 25 | Furthermore , the wages of artisans , although they moved at a different rate , followed the same general pattern of increasing real values at approximately the same dates . |
| 26 | than they come to a halt , as if obeying |
| 27 | Portsmouth could not have had an easier preparation than they had against a flimsy Grimsby side . |
| 28 | Better by far to tackle equity withdrawal on big loans , where better-off house-buyers borrow £20,000 more than they need for a house-purchase , to buy that flashy car they have always wanted . |
| 29 | ‘ Tata 's two assistants know everything there is to know about the trade , and I suspect you 'll know even more than they do within a few months . |
| 30 | However , status attributes ascribed by birth in a caste society define an individual 's position in the stratification system much more completely and securely than they do in a class society . |