Example sentences of "[subord] they [verb] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And they said you know th there should have been a way round it where they kept this couple in there . |
| 3 | ‘ I want police like they are on television , like The Bill , where they get stuck right in , ’ says one boy . |
| 4 | For example , 99.9% of my friends have come from homes where they had major childhood traumas . |
| 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 | If , so far as the Continent is concerned , the Viking impact is essentially a West Frankish phenomenon , that is because the Vikings went where they knew moveable wealth was to be had . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | In March 1939 the CRREC claimed that ‘ Not only are Jewish children with no particular religious affiliation being placed in non Jewish homes and schools , utterly abandoned as far as their religious education is concerned , but even children who have been brought up in a religious atmosphere … are being callously placed in non Jewish schools and homes , where they suffer mental torture which , in at least one case , has brought the child to the verge of a nervous breakdown . ’ |
| 10 | The caddie house was their bar where they drank bottled beer bought at the club door — but more of the Artisans later . |
| 11 | or where they change half way down , so you have n't got to keep taking your glasses on and off |
| 12 | In London the situation was very similar to those of Glasgow and Edinburgh , particularly in that many deaf adults had been educated at the Old Kent Road Asylum where they received religious instruction from two earnest ministers , the Rev. Henry Mason , Rector of Bermondsey , and the Rev. John Townsend . |
| 13 | Matt 's pretty fit from all those outdoor movies where they put olive oil on his pectorals ( though not as fit as he ought to be ) and the two of us gave the crew a bit of a hard time , said union rules did n't apply in the Jungle , and so on . |
| 14 | Leonard also had a little room in the basement in which a piano was kept , where they spent much time together . |
| 15 | School leavers , or inexperienced people joining the industry often get jobs in riding schools or competition yards where they gain practical experience . |
| 16 | Then many continue across the Antarctic Ocean towards the South Pole where they find continuous daylight while their northern breeding grounds are covered by continuous night . |
| 17 | Sadly for us he 's gone back to America — where they pay real money for what we do ! |
| 18 | Sadly for us he 's gone back to America — where they pay real money for what we do ! |
| 19 | In 1991 the children were removed and placed elsewhere , where they maintained regular contact with their mother . |
| 20 | Where they contradicted each other in inessential points there might be room for debate and uncertainty . |
| 21 | So she locked them in a coat closet where they beat each other half to death in the dark for twenty minutes . |
| 22 | Over-use of such mediating devices is unwise , especially where they involve direct repetition . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | For while she returned her kingdom to full doctrinal and liturgical conformity with Rome , many English Protestant exiles fled their homeland and took up residence in Strasbourg , Zurich , Emden , Frankfurt , and Geneva , where they gained first-hand experience of the Zwinglian and Calvinist forms of Protestantism , and became fully immersed in the Calvinist theology of grace and salvation . |
| 25 | You 'd probably find you did n't care about anything except they put rancid butter in your tea … |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Traders and shopkeepers there were not capitalists , although they accepted that definition of themselves in their defence of free enterprise . |
| 28 | Taking the lead against the coalition was a small but implacable group of diehards ; they were never more than a few dozen in the Commons and , although they attracted shifting support on particular issues , they never threatened the coalition majority . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 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 . |