Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] [pron] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For present purposes it is sufficient to note that the expression embraces the period of two years prior to the onset of insolvency in the case of transactions at an undervalue and of preferences given to a person connected with the company , provided that at the time of the transaction the company was unable to pay its debts or it became unable to pay its debts by reason of the transaction . |
| 2 | Two new players were needed to take Spurs where they wanted to go . |
| 3 | Summarizing the argument , let me say that there are good reasons , based on sociobiological insights into hunting , which lead me to suppose that the cooperation , altruism and mutuality demanded by social-hunting techniques in 4-foot high hominids lacking all modern hunting technology meant that only the sons were likely at first to start to exploit the immense reserves of game which our gelada-like ancestors saw all around them on the savanna grasslands where they lived . |
| 4 | Whatever benefits were conferred by the phenothiazines , they gave little help to patients who were suffering from excessive mood swings or who had entered into long periods of helpless depression . |
| 5 | ’ He reached out to touch her fingers where they rested on the table . |
| 6 | As well as monitoring haulier performance , we initiated many projects where we knew savings could be made . |
| 7 | And came running back in stark terror a few minutes later as if all the hounds of hell were after him , and Preston , who thought they were , a half-length behind all the way back to the alley behind their two houses where they stopped to get their breath back before they went in . |
| 8 | Mr Peter Bergg , the Liberal candidate , said he knew of at least four houses where it had happened including the party 's own offices in Coniscliffe Road . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd do those clubs where they served chicken in a basket . |
| 10 | Both split suddenly with clubs where they 'd been successful — Clough from Derby County in an almighty uproar , Dalglish from Liverpool in a still unsolved mystery . |
| 11 | It is therefore very unlikely that the court would insist on an expert giving reasons where it had not been agreed beforehand that he would . |
| 12 | For example , 99.9% of my friends have come from homes where they had major childhood traumas . |
| 13 | Either the mermaid was energetically breasting the waves or she sat on the upturned keel of a drowned vessel and combed out long and improbably yellow hair . |
| 14 | So you 're doing exactly what we were telling you to do a few weeks ago , that you had to er take money out of reserves or you had to cut down on the level of services if you were to avoid putting that thirty four pounds on the council tax bills this year . |
| 15 | Almost as proof , Kinnaird and Marie Steele , lecturer in Strathclyde University 's department of human resources management and one of the four opening speakers acting as ‘ catalysts ’ for the discussion , set the dismal scene : the unbelievably low number of female applicants for top jobs , the discontinuity between the high rate of female academic achievement in secondary , tertiary and professional education and career patterns , the patchiness of those career patterns in various sectors where they did break through . |
| 16 | I pulled the coat off him and flung it onto the hawthorn bushes where it rested upside down , spilling the contents of the torn pockets . |
| 17 | ‘ One word of this and I tell your local rags where you learnt your craft . ’ |
| 18 | The children come dressed as animals or anything related to farms , such as scarecrows . |
| 19 | How many ships suddenly developed strange ghost personae ; mechanical poltergeists in the engine room ; voices where they had none before ? |
| 20 | courses in turn , tended to select for observation those schools where they had a good relationship with the drama specialist . |
| 21 | So a Primary school headmaster , for instance , could find his school offering movement experience to children who had female teachers to the neglect of those children who were unfortunate enough to have a man as their teacher , and similarly , Movement and Drama appeared as a subject on the time-table in our Secondary schools where there happened to be a woman in the P.E . |
| 22 | This had opened in Fulham in 1945 , but soon moved into the buildings formerly occupied by St John 's Wood Art Schools where it became a vital centre for those interested in French art . |
| 23 | Grass and tangled weeds criss-crossed the path , slashing their bare feet and ankles and saturating the clothes on their thighs where they brushed against them . |
| 24 | There were no walls lined with books where we lived . |
| 25 | When it did , Aung San and his friends were outspoken and firm , and Communist popularity waned , even in the country districts where they had organised cultivators ' unions , advocated the non-payment of taxes and rent , and promised the confiscation of land and its division among the landless and debt-ridden peasants . |
| 26 | There can be few of us who can not make a daisy chain with our eyes closed — and who could forget the daisy-spangled downs and pastures where we loved to picnic ? |
| 27 | There was some difficulty over widening in Stafford Road , which was already partly built up with houses and shops where it passed through Wallington . |
| 28 | Here was a player who had clean kit for every match , who actually trained at home and , more importantly , scored goals where it mattered — between the posts . |
| 29 | Has the Liberal party broken a convention , or was it merely a display of bad manners that they left the Chamber immediately after their spokesman had finished ? |
| 30 | Lord Wilberforce examined the interests which an insurance-broking business might have in preventing an employee canvassing its clients once he had left . |