Example sentences of "where they [was/were] [verb] by the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Faye was in the kitchen with Roberta , so Alice shut the door quietly behind her and went with Monica out to the road , and along it to where they were hidden by the healthy bushes of Joan Robbins 's garden . |
| 2 | A ministerial statement issued after the killings claimed that , on parking the car , the three moved off toward the Spanish border where they were challenged by the security forces . |
| 3 | By the end of January they were in Milan , where they were befriended by the Austrian governor-general , Count Firmian . |
| 4 | In mid-June the Kent rebels marched on London , where they were joined by the Essex men and secured support from discontented elements in the capital . |
| 5 | Poor people , unable to privatise the holy in this way , crowded to shrines where they were welcomed by the custodians of miracle-working relics . |