Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb mod] [verb] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The ‘ broth ’ were all out in the park , where they would remain until tea time , and Patsy was over with a boy called Ed , who had befriended Patsy at school . |
| 2 | In the week before the premiere , John , out on tour with the company , sent several telegrams there , asking Hanns about tickets for the performance ( ‘ two plus one if possible ’ ) , about where he would stay , where they would meet and , on the day before the performance , ‘ Please buy gift for dressmaker ’ . |
| 3 | They had taken the first step but now it was the stream and not they which determined where they should go and what should happen to them . |
| 4 | So , we let them come into the harbour approaches , the narrowing river-mouth , where they must bunch and slow to avoid running aground on the sand-bars , then pound them from here while still they can not reach us effectively . |
| 5 | Despite elaborate efforts by experts to blast and block underground conduits housing dangerous flows , to force them onto open ground higher up the 10,948-foot volcano , where they could cool and harden , the lava inexplicably broke onto the surface itself . |
| 6 | The mobile units needed positions of strength where they could encamp and draw on supplies . |
| 7 | Will my hon. Friend suggest that hospitals in the Sheffield health authority area considering trust status should visit the Walsall trust hospital in the west midlands , where they will discover that in the first three months of this year 1,100 more patients were treated than in the year before — a 13 per cent . |
| 8 | There are no problems for modern cars and on an open hillside above the treeline , a roadside parking space has been provided where they can foregather and let their occupants feast on a superlative view of the head of Loch Duich and the Five Sisters . |
| 9 | They circle Sycorax 's saman tree , where stands the hut Kit used as a temporary headquarters before Belmont House was finished , and they turn south to pass out of the colony , into the residual forest , where they can hide until it will be safe to join a village — if her people will take her in again . |
| 10 | They also learn the position of the wetlands that provide them with crucial staging posts where they can feed and rest before starting on the next part of their journey . |
| 11 | Failing this , the section either ought to be amended to provide , as does s.61 ( below ) , for persons to sue where they have been adversely affected , or , as is the case in the US , where they can show that they have traded during the same time period as the insider . |
| 12 | That is why we are committed to provide the opportunity afforded by trust status and to grant it to those health care units that seek it , where they can show that they will use the freedoms that that status involves . |
| 13 | Teaching effectively in higher education calls for the extraordinary ability on the part of the teacher to bring students to the point where they can distinguish sense from nonsense for themselves , where they can say and do things for themselves and give reasons for so doing which are full of insight , and where they have the intellectual resources to take off under their own steam . |
| 14 | Or they may move because their old location is not well placed for transport facilities . |
| 15 | Or they may hope that their contribution to the household economy will restore them to a special place in their parents ' affections . |
| 16 | Or they may learn that their undue pessimism has caused them to pass up attractive market opportunities . |
| 17 | Or they 'll wait until I 'm half-way through a sentence , and get up to go to the loo . |
| 18 | The manual work or the heavy part of the team were almost entirely male , and they would go off to their hotels together or they would go and work together . |
| 19 | Or they can modify or substitute new goals which are more readily obtainable . |
| 20 | The adventurers have two options here : they can run or they can stay and fight . |
| 21 | Or they can decide that the main problem is that relative poverty got no better during the prosperous 1980s . |
| 22 | They can not breed without water , and their thin skins must be kept moist or they will dehydrate and die . |
| 23 | Do this in a clockwise direction , not anticlockwise or they will unscrew and you could have a length of drain rod stuck down the drain — as well as the original blockage ! |
| 24 | where the , where the main lines were , or they could look and see erm , what do you call them , those groups of trees on tops of hills they used |
| 25 | Or they 'd realize that it might be rather agreeable to say to visiting parents , ‘ That 's Noel Westerman — you know , Norman Ward Westerman 's son . |
| 26 | Furthermore , deeds made by individuals need no longer be sealed , although they may seal if they wish to do so , and deeds made by a company need only be signed by a director and the company secretary ( or by two directors ) and , provided that the deed is expressed to be executed by the company , then it has the same effect as if it was executed under the company 's seal . |
| 27 | They also insist that hunting is not done for sport , as it is in many ‘ sophisticated ’ countries , although they may admit that all forms of traditional hunting take on a certain glamour , especially in the minds of the younger men . |
| 28 | This is not so for local inspectors , although they would argue that their involvement helps in effecting change . |
| 29 | Marx described the consciousness of people in a situation of class conflict as ideological , meaning that although they might represent and believe their ideas to be objective and of universal validity , in reality these ideas express and serve class interests . |
| 30 | Under section 18 of the Act , control of the curriculum in county schools has shifted to head teachers , although they must ensure that the curriculum is compatible with their LEA 's statements on curricular policy — as modified by the governors in their own such statement . |