Example sentences of "[subord] they [vb past] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Powell and Pressburger brought their Archers outfit under the umbrella of Rank 's Independent Producers company where they made all their films from The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp to The Red Shoes . |
| 2 | We were taken to the XX hospital where they took many photos and asked questions . |
| 3 | Contraction at just one tenth of this rate seemed small beer to astronomers , and was presented by the popular media ( where they took any notice at all ) as another example of a way-out scientific idea that had been undermined by more careful studies . |
| 4 | And they said you know th there should have been a way round it where they kept this couple in there . |
| 5 | After about ten minutes , they found themselves back where they 'd first arrived in Victorian London . |
| 6 | Group 3 had cleared Maaloy and sent a party of sappers , men of 6 Commando attached to ‘ No.3 ’ for this raid , over to Mortenes on the east shore of the fjord , where they landed unopposed and destroyed a fish processing factory . |
| 7 | He pointed out the pebbled street in front of park 's Guest House where they had first stayed and a bungalow they had taken between the church and the golf links . |
| 8 | For example , 99.9% of my friends have come from homes where they had major childhood traumas . |
| 9 | On the one hand , the new owners of great country houses accepted the life of the landed gentleman , even where they had little land . |
| 10 | I kept banging my way to and from the can , where they had incredible pictures of nude chicks front magazines all over the wall . |
| 11 | After we got that fixed , we stopped in Yellow Stone Park where they had these loos that were just holes in the ground and I dropped the keys to the van down one of them . |
| 12 | After we got that fixed , we stopped in Yellow Stone park where they had these loos that were just holes in the ground and I dropped the keys to the van down one of them . |
| 13 | For a few decades , too , the English also used hobelars with success along the borders which separated them from the enemy in France , and in particular at the siege of Calais in 1346–7 , where they had some 600 or so to help them keep the French at a distance . |
| 14 | He knew where he would find her : there at the edge of the temple pool where they had last spoken . |
| 15 | If , so far as the Continent is concerned , the Viking impact is essentially a West Frankish phenomenon , that is because the Vikings went where they knew moveable wealth was to be had . |
| 16 | Eventually they reached a stage where they became integrated units . |
| 17 | The boats surrounded the whales , drove them into nets , where they became enmeshed and were rendered helpless by harpoon thrusts . |
| 18 | The spokeswoman also called for the area of beach where they became stuck to be clearly signposted . |
| 19 | Consequently herbs were simply not part of the garden scene , being tucked away in an odd corner of the vegetable garden , or grown half-heartedly in pots or window-boxes , where they became aphid-ridden and dusty . |
| 20 | The group of countries where the Swedes felt most alien were Central Europe , Africa and the Middle East , and where they felt less alien was in Latin America , while by far the most important factor was the happiness of the spouse . |
| 21 | He lay on his side , holding the covers over him by their edges , gazing at some of his copies of Vogue , which Tessa had been looking through and left lying on the carpet in front of the fire , where they glowed pink and red . |
| 22 | It turned out to be the food market , where they sold swollen watermelons and aubergines and strange shaped fruits . |
| 23 | We used to go on Lord Street and he used to be where they sold luscious cakes . |
| 24 | The scents of north African cooking , of couscous , of saffron and cumin and turmeric j street-markets , where they sold powdered dyes and spices , sticks of sandalwood for burning , little piles of henna powder and ground indigo . |
| 25 | The caddie house was their bar where they drank bottled beer bought at the club door — but more of the Artisans later . |
| 26 | In London the situation was very similar to those of Glasgow and Edinburgh , particularly in that many deaf adults had been educated at the Old Kent Road Asylum where they received religious instruction from two earnest ministers , the Rev. Henry Mason , Rector of Bermondsey , and the Rev. John Townsend . |
| 27 | cars be permitted to make the lengthy journey out to Finchley and back down the other road to Cricklewood and Willesden , where they met other L.C.C . |
| 28 | Leonard also had a little room in the basement in which a piano was kept , where they spent much time together . |
| 29 | They gave a 21-gun salute , played hymns and went on board a coastal yacht , where they spent most of the day alternately at anchor or sailing . |
| 30 | Known as Cadians , they founded a new homeland in the backwoods of south Louisiana , where they discovered bountiful supplies of game — rabbit , squirrel , pigeon and deer , and helpful native Indians who taught them how to make the most of local wild produce . |