Example sentences of "[conj] they " in BNC.
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| 31 | Sometimes they were so drunk they fell asleep where they were and lay without pillows or covers until I returned from work , and then I would rage at them in Arabic , telling them that thanks to them my room was no better than the Italian 's pigsty at home ; we used to spit on the ground whenever we went near it , children and grownups alike , shouting exclamations of disgust , even though all we could see of it was the outer fence . |
| 32 | At least with real ‘ abroad ’ , where they 're all foreign , |
| 33 | where they all speak English , and you understand |
| 34 | Enclosed with Training News are details of the services available and where they can be obtained from . |
| 35 | Some older people are keen to live in sheltered accommodation where they hope for a combination of independence and security . |
| 36 | Comprising originally the North East/North West to South West/South East network of trains which were routed to run through Birmingham New Street ( where they made a series of interchanges ) the Cross Country InterCity sub-sector is now responsible for all services which do not use a London terminus . |
| 37 | Prokofiev used several leitmotifs in the same way in his score fur Romeo and Juliet where they heighten not only the emotional involvement of the hero and heroine but also the conflict between the warring Montagues and Capulets ( see page 26 ) . |
| 38 | Nowhere are they more telling than in Ashton 's Enigma Variations where they explain the sympathy felt by Jaeger ( the critic ) for Elgar and his Wife or in A Month in the Country where Ashton communicates the growing feelings of love and frustration of the participants . |
| 39 | As competition for tied houses became hotter from 1905 , with licensing magistrates actively closing down pubs and beerhouses , Hoare 's began grabbing up other brewery firms where they could . |
| 40 | The upstairs lighting circuit is laid out on the floor of the loft , taking care not to put it under any loft insulation ( where it could overheat ) , and not to put junction boxes where they could be damaged by careless feet . |
| 41 | With loop-in wiring , the wires are labelled carefully , and drawn up into the space above the ceiling , where they should be reconnected in a junction box , in exactly the same way that they were connected in the ceiling rose , and a cable taken from this junction box to the light fitting through the hole in the ceiling ( if the new light fitting is in the same place ) . |
| 42 | For the second week they 'll be whisked off to lively Barbados , where they will stay at the Discovery Bay Hotel on the fashionable West Coast of the island . |
| 43 | Because the net will inevitably be in close contact with some of the fruit , birds will still do some damage where they can peck through the mesh . |
| 44 | Place in a cold frame or on a windowsill out of direct sunlight , where they will soon root at this time of year . |
| 45 | Any readers who want to collect aluminium cans can either send them to me or contact local scrap metal dealers and take them there , where they can then donate the cash to a charity of their own choice . |
| 46 | Others have been half-trained on slippery floors , where they worry about keeping their feet , yet are yelled at for failing to respond quickly enough to commands . |
| 47 | Sadly , so many dogs seem to end up in classes run by loud , aggressive people , where they are yanked cruelly on choke chains and punished physically if they do n't do as they 're told . |
| 48 | or where they set tables down by small rivers , |
| 49 | The couple still maintain close links with local schools , where they spend hours researching , sketching and absorbing jokes . |
| 50 | Two new players were needed to take Spurs where they wanted to go . |
| 51 | The airlines themselves will next week step up their recruitment drive for pilots in North America and western Europe , where they have also chartered aircraft , by extending their search for flight crews to South Africa and central Europe . |
| 52 | That is what convinces me where they would like to take us . |
| 53 | Her 12 years of compulsory schooling had left her exactly where they had found her — locked into the social and economic limitations of the milieu in which she was born . |
| 54 | Rural Britain is full of retired brigadiers and industrial captains , chaps who got where they were through diplomacy , cunning and an instinct for knocking heads together when the bugle blew . |
| 55 | The chartered jet was carrying 248 US servicemen home for Christmas to Fort Campbell , Kentucky , from their stations in the Sinai desert , where they formed part of the Multinational Force and Observers designed to monitor implementation of the Camp David accords between Egypt and Israel . |
| 56 | Society , she says , may need to change its attitude to the perpetrators , from a climate where they are seen as ‘ monsters ’ faced with imprisonment to one where they can admit what has happened . |
| 57 | She and her boyfriend have had their future planned for some time : they want to start farming in a nearby village , where they also intend to build a bungalow . |
| 58 | The anthem , flower-presentation , long walk and interminable announcements all took place after the teams had taken the field , where they were forced to kick their heels in a neat line for nearly a quarter of an hour during which the chanteuse and the French Army choir six times exhorted the crowd : ‘ To Arms ! ’ . |
| 59 | When they disobeyed they were transformed into pillars of rock and placed where they could see each other but never meet . |
| 60 | But ask state workers where they buy their new outfits , be it of traditional African cloth or stylish jeans , and the answer is likely to be Rock Santeiro . |