Example sentences of "[subord] they [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was self-service , and guests carried their food on little plastic trays to mucky tables , where they ate to the accompaniment of strident pop music . |
| 2 | The US duo arrived in Spain on a private jet from North Carolina , where they played in the US Tour Championship on Sunday , and both have to be back in the States next Monday . |
| 3 | One attempt to model only critical variables which determine yield has been made by Stocking and Pain ( 1983 ) where they concentrate upon the impact of erosive forces upon the availability of minimum moisture levels . |
| 4 | With the help of the dogs , who leapt silently through the snow , George managed to usher them to a barn , where they massed on the sheltered side . |
| 5 | Prudential Assurance 's policy treats items such as the installation of a telephone and television aerials where they existed in the old house but not in the new and the reconnection of electrical/gas appliances as separate items . |
| 6 | The adult worms , bright red in colour and up to 2.5 cm in length , are easily recognised at necropsy where they predominate in the horny lining of the gizzard . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | It took the three of them over an hour to reach the bottom of the slope , where they came to a halt . |
| 9 | When there is tension in the neck and spine , particularly where they connect to the brain at the base of the skull , blood flow is impeded . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Where these latter principles of differentiation are coterminous with certain aspects of the division of labour ( and with each other ) , the chances of formation of a politically pertinent collectivity within the ‘ division of labour grid ’ may be increased ( e.g. ‘ working class ’ catholics in the west of Scotland as a traditional Labour Party support-base ) ; where they cut across the division of labour the chances may be diminished ( the difficulty of developing ‘ class ’ politics in Northern Ireland ) . |
| 12 | The church was in ruins , and the monks had put up a temporary building over the main altar , where they gathered round the body of St Dunstan for their daily offices . |
| 13 | Local folklore has it that in prehistoric times men drove wild cattle to their deaths over Combe Scar and ate them where they fell at the foot of the crag ( cattle bones are reputed to have been found there ) . |
| 14 | This specimen is exceptionally well-preserved , retaining its spines where they fell around the animal as it died . |
| 15 | But seaweed and stones lodged in the uprooted bushes that littered the low hills and meadows ; beehives were found where they rolled in the bed of a stream ; fish lay silver in farmyards , and drowned sheep on the shore . |
| 16 | We need to remember that local authorities are also active in the ‘ capital ’ markets where they borrow by the issue of stocks , bonds and mortgages . |
| 17 | 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 . ] . |
| 18 | The overwhelming majority of Russians — some 83 per cent in the 1989 census — lived in the Russian Republic , where they accounted for the same proportion of the local population . |
| 19 | After the rehearsal they all , Miranda too , went to the Adelphi tea-rooms , where they laughed at the décor : " Straight from the thirties , darling . |
| 20 | That 's the address of the boatyard office , where they take in the letters . " |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Shortly afterwards they were outward bound for the Great Barrier Reef where they cruised for a year in search of a dream . |
| 23 | Wires from the ganglion cells run along the surface of the retina to the " blind spot " , where they dive through the retina to form the main trunk cable to the brain , the optic nerve . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Some older people are keen to live in sheltered accommodation where they hope for a combination of independence and security . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | The flaps stood up on either side of her ankle , and were laced together where they met in a stiff ridge over her foot . |
| 28 | The couple were chauffeured from their homes to the town hall where they put on the replica mayoral chains made specially for the occasion . |
| 29 | Greeted by a rubbing of practised hands , the Tory Party 's celebrities take their seats before well-appointed tables where they listen to the supplications of their hosts while scrutinising the menu . |
| 30 | He had never called her that before ; nor had he ever touched her as he touched her now , his good right hand caressing both of hers where they lay atop the bedclothes . |