Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somebody was telling me the Rocky was on R5 the other week & said that when he was with Arsenal & they won the league at Liverpool in the last few minutes , Arsenal were 13 ( ? ) points clear at the new year but still had to come from behind to overtake Liverpool ! ! ! |
| 2 | After his inclusion in the side the Town rose from seventeenth place to third , where they finished the season , their highest position yet . |
| 3 | I remember we arrived during a heat wave and had to go into this refrigerator where they kept the furs . |
| 4 | The kitchen wing was at the back and to the side so the house was L-shaped ; and beyond the kitchen was a cobbled yard bounded by the stables , where they kept the cars . |
| 5 | The clergy , however , preferred to discuss these matters in provincial clerical synods where they governed the procedures and priorities . |
| 6 | A large group of invited guests were at the opening yesterday where they heard the mayor of Darlington , Coun Rita Fishwick , formally wish Buzz every success . |
| 7 | Few visible signs of such domestic industries remain , but the fine octagonal market house on the village green at Harrold is where work was distributed among the lace-makers , and where they brought the finished lace to be paid for by the employers . |
| 8 | There was a carding mill at where they carded the wool you know . |
| 9 | It is a measure of the fundamental instincts of Citrine and his colleagues that , where they had the greater power to centralise , it was centralisation , and not devolved responsibility , which was their watchword . |
| 10 | where they had the burglaries . |
| 11 | Specially where specially where they had the baby |
| 12 | First , there was an exodus of thousands of Catholics to the south , where they became the most implacable opponents of the Communist north . |
| 13 | I knew of one farm where they served the suet and gravy first so as to take the edge off their hunger and save the meat . |
| 14 | It was like a neglected museum in a very poor country , where they hoarded the things no one else wanted . |
| 15 | The Honours were presented at sessions of the Parliament , where they symbolised the royal presence , particularly when an infant sovereign could not be present . |
| 16 | In the evening they constructed a bonfire outside , where they drank the healths of James II and his son , forcing passers-by to do the same , and offering insults to those who refused . |
| 17 | It was here where they dazzled the minds of the masses with their pioneering space rock sound , a true alternative to Lennon & McCartney 's elegant pop confections and one that would later become the blueprint for numerous ‘ progressive ’ outfits in the early '70s . |
| 18 | As a result most of our large towns had their select residences on the western side , in positions where they received the benefit of the prevailing wind before it passed over the town or city ; the poorer population residing on the eastern side . |
| 19 | The men of the ship 's company lived in a makeshift hut for ten months , and then took to their boats for the homeward passage , reaching Novaya Zemlya , where they met the Hope , commanded by Sir Allen W. Young [ q.v. ] , who had been sent to find them . |
| 20 | Girls were chosen to go along to the Sophisticut salon in Paignton , Devon where they spent the day being pampered and totally transformed by Christopher and his artistic team . |
| 21 | The couple — chatting and still smiling , though Diana looked tense — were driven home to Kensington Palace , where they spent the evening together . |
| 22 | On 15 October hastening back from Berwick , the king , the earl of Kent , Hugh Despenser the younger , and the rest of the court arrived at Bridlington priory where they spent the night before retreating to Burstwick , in Holderness . |
| 23 | Where they entered the forest , at the same level as their plots of land , the trees were mainly deciduous — walnuts , chestnuts and birches . |
| 24 | The next moment Rachel was surrounded again as with many hugs and cuddles the group took their leave of their new friend and finally filed into the minibus , where they lined the windows , smiling and waving . |
| 25 | The Remingtons emigrated to America in the 18th century , where they founded the great engineering company which bears their name . |
| 26 | New Sussex Opera return to the Gardner Centre where they won the Alliance & Leicester Award last festival for their outstanding production of Weill 's Lost in The Stars . |
| 27 | Some grew up on river crossings , at water-holes on the westward trails , and a remarkable number — Matson included — on the railroads or , thanks to founding fathers with a keen eye for land values , where they deduced the railroads must come . |
| 28 | Shortly afterwards officers smashed their way into Mrs Curran 's bungalow where they found the victims ' bodies in separate rooms . |
| 29 | The two right hand and two left hand glazing bars , where they joined the curved members were cut with mortice joints , then loose tenons glued into the top of glazing bars at right angles to housing to remove problem of short grain on tenons . |
| 30 | Well some of them came by road and RAF trucks , the fuselages , and then there were all they started at the top of the airfield in the old flying club pavilion , and then they were er stripped down and stuff was taken off them , checked out , for airworthiness to see whether it was ready to go back on the planes , and then they came down to the back of the top hanger which was then they were all down to the skeleton of the aircraft and they started rebuilding them again like , there were engine shops and the place at the bottom hanger where they used to make the Swallow side-cars was the spraying and where they completed the aircraft . |