Example sentences of "[noun sg] [subord] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shortly afterwards officers smashed their way into Mrs Curran 's bungalow where they found the victims ' bodies in separate rooms . |
| 2 | Bruce 's forces were defeated first in Methven wood by the English , and then beside Loch Tay by Comyn 's uncle , the Lord of Lorn The king 's sister and the Countess of Buchan who had crowned him were dragged out of sanctuary where they had been sent for safety , and exhibited in cages hanging from castle walls at Roxburgh and Berwick . |
| 3 | Erm and then you could have your trade stand where they 've got to come and collect something and answer a question . |
| 4 | Yet Llewelyn felt the forces of heaven moving him , and aligned himself with them boldly , going without hesitation where they carried him . |
| 5 | These dramatic spectacles are caused by charged particles , which are accelerated in solar flares , being diverted towards the poles by the Earth 's magnetic field where they enter the upper atmosphere causing ionisation and producing light . |
| 6 | Three hooded gunmen wearing Lebanese Army fatigues entered his apartment where they killed him , his wife and their two small sons . |
| 7 | But even where a case is tried summarily , magistrates still have the power to commit a convicted defendant to the Crown Court for sentence where they feel that their own powers are inadequate . |
| 8 | Some were taken back to the dungeons of Black Crag where they remain to this day , to the anger of Kazador . |
| 9 | All-night parties , Nina dancing in the nude , Modi stumbling into the sketching class very drunk , the weekly visits to the Gaieté Montparnasse , a small , bawdy music-hall where they sat up in the gallery , all paint a happy-go-lucky picture . |
| 10 | The Canadians arrived little more than 36 hours before their first tie and even in a bounce game against recruits at the army camp where they trained yesterday , they found it very taxing . |
| 11 | They are unable to enter into a total experience of mourning where they acknowledge loss and pain without needing to deny it or blame anyone . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Across the paths it came , in between the cages , around the enclosures , a silent insubstantial sea whose waves left shining moisture where they went . |
| 16 | They soon had to leave the School Cottage where they had lived , but they were granted a payment of £5 for " the bath and fittings " left in the cottage , which was quickly rented out to provide a valuable £35 a year of extra income . |
| 17 | They stumbled and laughed down the tiny lane to the Littles ' cottage where they parted . |
| 18 | Basically , most moisturisers serve a simple purpose — to sit on the surface of your skin where they seal in and prevent the moisture from escaping . |
| 19 | But apart from that incident , it was a great show and he did the same kind of thing in Seattle , Kansas City and the sort of cities in the Mid West where they had n't heard of him — it was too early — but Tony DeFries was as good as his word . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Head , who with Don James led Sudbury Town to Wembley in the final of the FA Vase in 1989 , has managed Harwich to the final of the Essex Senior Trophy where they play Essex Senior League club Southend Manor |
| 22 | As we came into view , hairy male legs moving like pistons beat a hasty retreat to the nearest available nook where they crouched and huddled in speechless terror . |
| 23 | Unfortunately the rivers , meandering over their own aggradation , may be expected to produce comparable cliffing where they impinge against the solid rocks of the valley sides , so that , in practice , an interpretation of events based solely on the evidence of landforms is not practicable . |
| 24 | Shortly afterwards they were outward bound for the Great Barrier Reef where they cruised for a year in search of a dream . |
| 25 | On the porch outside the front door , I kicked off my sandals and pushed them to one side where they joined an already substantial pile of varying styles and sizes . |
| 26 | The thermal tide could carry molecules generated by solar uv radiation to the night side where they revert to other forms with the emission of uv radiation . |
| 27 | In their eighties , they were still living in Norham Gardens , the North Oxford avenue that leads to Lady Margaret Hall , the women 's college where they had studied and taught ; they had been among the first women students to be allowed officially to take a degree , though woman sat the examinations in order to make the point after the college 's foundation in 1878 . |
| 28 | If he were to ask many people in the north-east where they come from , they would say ’ the north-east ’ . |
| 29 | Reconnection takes place at X , converting closed field lines , c , into open field lines , o , which form a rotational field discontinuity where they cross the magnetopause ( dashed line ) . |
| 30 | Again , the control layout would bother me because the volume pot for the bridge pickup is the middle of the three , but I think I could get used to it — although at present it is like trying to get used to driving a new car where they 've put the gearstick in the middle of the passenger seat . |