Example sentences of "[subord] they [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the help of the dogs , who leapt silently through the snow , George managed to usher them to a barn , where they massed on the sheltered side . |
| 2 | Prudential Assurance 's policy treats items such as the installation of a telephone and television aerials where they existed in the old house but not in the new and the reconnection of electrical/gas appliances as separate items . |
| 3 | The overwhelming majority of Russians — some 83 per cent in the 1989 census — lived in the Russian Republic , where they accounted for the same proportion of the local population . |
| 4 | Where they disappeared amid the crazed valleys and jumbled boulders of the dusty scablands , the first explorers drew back in defeat , unable to decipher the wild terrain . |
| 5 | Betty Hawkes took her to the local hop that evening , where they danced to the strict tempo of Victor Sylvester records : a very different world to the music of Miller and Goodman and Basie that she 'd jived to in the States . |
| 6 | But although they lived as the only intellectual representatives of their own language in so small a place as Rapallo , they were not destined to decrease each other 's mental loneliness . |
| 7 | The music was extremely good to dance to and the skins were excellent dancers , although they turned to the slow , deep soul music for close dancing . |
| 8 | Although they tended in the early decades to entertain an idealized image of the peasantry , their subsequent reappraisals could hardly have been more thorough . |
| 9 | Simon Kellett and Ashley Metcalfe were in a business-like mood and although they picked off the bad balls , they took few unnecessary risks . |
| 10 | But police in Foxboro , Massa-chusetts , said there was less trouble than they expected from the 50,000 crowd . |
| 11 | Even in the eighteenth century , when interiors ( and people ) were at every social level a great deal dirtier than they became in the Victorian period , Defoe 's Moll Flanders can forgive a multitude of sins , where everything is ‘ so handsome and so clean ’ . |
| 12 | Rod Bristow saw universities changing more over the next five years than they had in the previous half century . |
| 13 | Er , consumer confidence fell away and U K consumers kept more of their cash in their pockets er , in fact , erm , they saved over two and a half billion pounds more in the first quarter of ninety one than they had in the same er , quarter of last year . |
| 14 | Under the Government 's proposals , taxpayers in Barnet will pay a lower tax than they paid under the discredited rating system which the Government abolished and they will pay less than they would under the Labour party 's proposals . |
| 15 | The new tariff also made payment of war debts by European countries to the USA more difficult since it prevented them from selling more goods to America than they bought from the new world . |
| 16 | The public would no more identify with the new councils than they did with the present ones or did with the old councils , Prof Midwinter stressed . |
| 17 | Birds roosting and foraging near airports now collide with jumbo jets seven times more often than they did with the early turbo jets . |
| 18 | There is less time to think as hazards loom quicker than they did on the old boats , and accurate navigation becomes ever more critical . |
| 19 | Around 65% of people with meters found they were paying the same as or less than they did under the old system . |
| 20 | What is more , when inflation is taken into account , the present middle-income earners have relatively less disposable income under the present higher tax rate of 60% than they did under the old regime of tax charged at the highest rate of 83% such is the falling-behind effect of tax allowances granted in recent years . |
| 21 | It is at least possible that workers ' combinations operated in more propitious circumstances in the eighteenth century than they did in the early nineteenth . |
| 22 | Children cost twice as much to education there than they did in the outer London Boroughs , or indeed out in the styx as we are here in Oxfordshire . |
| 23 | Let it be supposed that according to the usual methods of borrowing and funding , the Public Debts , during the present war , should encrease to no greater degree than they did in the last war ; which was about 30 millions : And let it be supposed , according to past experience , that in ten or twelve years after a peace ; we should be plunged into a fresh war ; which might encrease the debts of the nation 30 millions more , and that afterwards we should have another breathing time of ten or twelve years , and that according to custom a third war should ensue , no less expensive than each of the former two ; these three wars will swell the national debts to the amount of 170 millions , and that in little more than fifty years . |
| 24 | And then other firms did that and er they was the same people nearly , got their own lines and it was worse that was , so they got onto the same lines and er the competition became then financial |
| 25 | So she could n't go out to work cos she 'd got young girls to bring up so they went to the social and the social turned round and said to them before we give you any money you 've got ta spend all this bloody redundancy you 've got ta have used all your savings , including the kids savings , and you 've got ta have nothing ! |
| 26 | He was carrying a huge bundle of papers and did n't want to walk far , so they went into the Arab cafe beside the Post Office . |
| 27 | Thereafter rain restricted them to one-day games and half of a four-day game , so they went into the first Test in Trinidad very under-prepared . |
| 28 | He says they had the space so they decorated in the grand manner . |
| 29 | The Indians were buried with as much wealth as possible , and so they strove with the utmost diligence throughout their lives to acquire and amass all the gold they could , which they took from their own land and were buried with it … |
| 30 | DID you also puzzle why for that most important debate in the House of Commons last Thursday the women in the Shadow Cabinet chose to dress in a uniform of baby pink so they appeared on the front benches looking like a bunch of misplaced Barbie Dolls |