Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] [adv] they [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Attainment of the competence award is not limited by any specific time period or course length , so candidates will be able to come forward for assessment whenever they have accumulated the required evidence of competence against national standards . |
| 2 | This would not mean that A and B are liable for conspiracy wherever they acted unlawfully with the foreseeable consequence that C suffered loss , for conspiracy should not extend further than the other economic torts ( for example , interference with contract by unlawful means ) where the predominant view is that this is not sufficient . |
| 3 | So to while away the time while they waited for dark again they sat in a back room and fiished the waistcoat . |
| 4 | They 're not learning about religion where they do n't believe in blood transfusions etcetera etcetera seven or eight year old . |
| 5 | They had heard ominous sounds of the gravedigger just after half-time when they led 9–3 . |
| 6 | It was after midnight when they reached the place . |
| 7 | After that they talked about Dancer and Ethel and Little Chef and Ricky 's ponies , and drank so many cups of coffee and Daisy even had a crème de menthe frappé that it was long after midnight when they left . |
| 8 | This was the time of afternoon when they popped the tar . |
| 9 | And it 's , the life is in the , still in the tooth if you can find it , but of course sometimes they 've gone have n't they ? |
| 10 | Of course drugs is , is one of the wonderful examples that the very thing that Katherine was talking about , something that was n't there in the beginning and that has been produced by modern technology and is now a big problem , but is not a problem to Australian Aborigines because they do n't have any drugs er to speak of , of course now they do and alcohol is a terrible problem with Australian Aborigines I talked to David McKnight about it . |
| 11 | Of course then they change their attitude SWET said well alright we 'll put it right down there in the corner . |
| 12 | Erm you must have heard of the phrases of poncing , where somebody is operating a prostitute and if they do n't get a required amount of money a week or er er an amount of money where they consider it sufficient , they 'll probably go and beat them up or something like that . |
| 13 | As in the case of Soviet proposals for zones of peace elsewhere they contributed , however , to the creation of inhospitable local conditions for the Western military presence and formed part of the Soviet policy of military denial . |
| 14 | The natives in the area assert that social worth is not to be defined in terms of such universalistic notions as class , but rather in terms of length of residence i.e. they make ‘ rank ’ a distinction between the established and the outsiders ( see especially Newby , 1977 , 1979 ; Newby , Bell , Rose and Saunders 1978 ; Pahl 1965 ) . |
| 15 | ‘ Lucky for you you picked on the sort of place where they do n't call the peelers , ’ Devlin said . |
| 16 | It was already past midnight when they got to see Dustin , who was playing pool by himself , while a huge party for the cast was going on in another suite . |
| 17 | They did not believe in any form of resurrection yet they asked a question concerning this topic . |
| 18 | ( Where parents have no previous experience of the British system of education then they rely heavily on the school 's opinion and guidance . ) |
| 19 | Anywhere else this would be natural Conservative territory , the kind of constituency where they weigh rather than count the true blue votes , but the university changes all that . |
| 20 | The young person who , unfortunately , reaches the age of 16 after July 2 has now to return to school for another year and will be almost 17 years of age whenever they leave . |
| 21 | Of Manner In They did the job in the way they were told the clause in the way they were told qualifies did . |
| 22 | The second basic element of initiation is that which relates newcomers to their fellow teachers , a process of acculturation whereby they become members of the group . |
| 23 | Just as she had predicted , Matthew had become a fine young man , tall and strong , and markedly handsome , with his wayward mop of brown hair and those dark violet eyes that still held a world of bitterness whenever they looked on her . |
| 24 | These processes turn out to be as widely varying as the tasks upon which they are to be used , and we are therefore only in the very beginning stages of understanding how they combine to predict emerging skills . |
| 25 | Users are likely to be able to lead the process of innovation whenever they perceive their own needs more clearly than other firms do , and whenever they can appropriate most of the benefits from innovation . |
| 26 | They were on a make up system sort of thing where they had a wage but it was n't the wage that the the piece work squad would have . |
| 27 | Held in Villa Grimaldi building , once a torture centre where many Chilean disappeared prisoners were detained under Gen. Augusto Pinochet " s 1973-90 military regime , the meeting ended on Nov. 11 with the decision to create a " network for life " throughout Latin America , aimed at the rapid denunciation of cases of disappearance whenever they occurred , and at the achievement of international legislation declaring the repressive practice a crime against humanity . |
| 28 | It is a matter of dispute how they parted ; friends of Hayward suggest that Eliot left Carlyle Mansions on the morning of the marriage , leaving only a note of explanation behind — or , even , that he told Hayward as the taxi waited for him in the street below . |
| 29 | The evidence shows that animals can vary their size extremely rapidly in a short space of time when they become , for example , geographically isolated from the main herd . |
| 30 | Of Time In They sang as they walked along the clause as they walked along tells when they sang . |