Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | There were plenty more where they came from . |
| 32 | And Preston very dubious , because she did n't look like she had a baby in her tummy and experience had taught him to be very sceptical about any information his family gave out , especially on the subject of babies and where they came from . |
| 33 | She would never have been able to operate without her husband Eric , who for all his bluff and jolly manner was in practice a hard man , a no-nonsense man , who sent trouble-makers back where they came from , into the main prison system , without any heart-searchings or regrets . |
| 34 | ‘ Send them back where they came from , ’ the porter said to no one in particular , following it with an obscenity . |
| 35 | Still , there are plenty more where they came from . |
| 36 | I told him about my family and where they came from , then told him about my father . |
| 37 | Gina turned on her aunt in irritation : ‘ I tell you I 've never seen them before and I 've no idea where they came from . ’ |
| 38 | He is not sure where they came from . |
| 39 | Plays about the fractured consciousness of working-class kids who had fought their way through the old class system , emerged on top , and still felt dissatisfied , still realizing that nothing had changed back where they came from , or where they had arrived . |
| 40 | They have n't forgotten where they came from and also who put them where they are today . |
| 41 | He never enquired where they came from . |
| 42 | Where they came from ( by region , for example , north-east , south-west , London and so on ) . |
| 43 | What they found was a police operation aimed at sending them back where they came from . |
| 44 | You 'll then find out where they went to — a few clues : it will be -2.2° C , only one thousandth of the country is cultivated , only a third of the population have radios and there are 15 hotels in the country . |
| 45 | Whether these were John 's family or whether there was another brother or sister I do not know , but I have never been able to find out anything about who they were or where they went to . |
| 46 | That 's damn funny where they went to ! |
| 47 | The gauntlet had been flung in clear sight of them both , and where they went from there Claudia had n't the faintest idea . |
| 48 | And that 's the case with inner and outer , They are perhaps more fundamentally different er in some respects that than than other options for an outer where they go for example on the western where they 're totally outside , I would accept that . |
| 49 | You know that there are many paths leading to the house and from the house , but : ( a ) You do not know how many there are , where they come from , or where they go to . |
| 50 | The , the direct debits that you 've been paying for years but you 're not sure where they go to , that sort of thing ? |
| 51 | Because of the seasonality of fruiting , the major question left unanswered is where the dispersal agents come from and where they go to . |
| 52 | Many parents also want to know what pupils do and where they go after leaving school — how many go into further education , to university or into employment . |
| 53 | You never quite know what they do or where they go in winter , though I 'm told Froggy had a sister in the Birmingham area . ’ |
| 54 | When there is tension in the neck and spine , particularly where they connect to the brain at the base of the skull , blood flow is impeded . |
| 55 | It is a question many mothers ask as they receive their dead children home from wars , mountain tops and London lavatories where they died of an overdose . |
| 56 | Where these latter principles of differentiation are coterminous with certain aspects of the division of labour ( and with each other ) , the chances of formation of a politically pertinent collectivity within the ‘ division of labour grid ’ may be increased ( e.g. ‘ working class ’ catholics in the west of Scotland as a traditional Labour Party support-base ) ; where they cut across the division of labour the chances may be diminished ( the difficulty of developing ‘ class ’ politics in Northern Ireland ) . |
| 57 | The precedent has now been established that European Community law is invulnerable to deliberate Acts of Parliament , and that British courts are under obligation to disapply those Acts where they conflict with it . |
| 58 | The harbour had stone quay walls founded around low water level on either side of the stream but principally on the South bank where they extended for over half a mile . |
| 59 | These sink to the river bed where they adhere to pebbles . |
| 60 | The Blackmen made their way down Lower Ormeau to the city centre , where they connected with buses to take them to Last Saturday marches elsewhere in the province . |