Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [Wh adv] they could " in BNC.
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| 1 | Almost nine tenths , 88 per cent , of the people who had spent some time in a residential home were said to have had access to a telephone where they could make calls and people could telephone them . |
| 2 | Lewis soon formulated a plan whereby they could all share Wyvis Hall . |
| 3 | They were left by the LRDG about ten miles south of the target , and marched through the night to a point where they could observe the target during the following day . |
| 4 | The theatre was not large , and the bulk of the audience were out in a couple of minutes , umbrellas raised , heads dropped , darting off into the Village to look for their cars , or a place where they could put some drink in their systems , and play critics . |
| 5 | The ICS , as a body , had never been much taken with political reform , sensing correctly that it set in motion a process whereby they could expect only to be replaced , and both reason and sentiment told them that this would never do . |
| 6 | The workers , placed in a situation where they could trust neither management nor union , entered into an uneasy alliance with the group , engaging in a series of discussions and meetings over the summer of 1980 . |
| 7 | I think the army thought they were going in to a situation where they could they could help , they saw themselves if you like as the referees er as a neutral party in between two sides . |
| 8 | The government certainly had no money to spare to help the colonies , and this introduced the general rule that English colonies had to cover their own costs , both in the sense that the government of a colony had to raise enough revenue to pay its own bills and in the sense that there were no subsidies to encourage people to stay in a colony where they could not earn their own living . |
| 9 | He was making couples , choosing partners , arranging meetings in a café where they could all talk , all those men who never had had the chance to meet . |
| 10 | This was directly aimed at the ‘ surplus countries ’ , especially Japan and Germany , and was an attempt to bind them into a system where they could not pile up persistent surpluses . |
| 11 | They were hauled alongside and manoeuvred one at a time to a position where they could be hauled aboard , encumbered by their diving equipment . |
| 12 | He put it on a table where they could see it . |
| 13 | She and her husband moved further away from the town centre , to a spot where they could see the fields , and settled down to have five children . |
| 14 | Students were asked to provide their names and an address where they could be contacted then . |