Example sentences of "[pron] they [vb past] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He left and found a squalid flat in Brentford , which they shared with another couple and their children . |
| 2 | Those who could not stand it returned home worn out by the virulence of anti-Irish racism which they experienced from English people . |
| 3 | When they began to travel abroad they invested in a couple of suits and a jacket which they passed around each other . |
| 4 | Despite revolutionary zeal , or perhaps because of it , they sought immediate compensations for the miseries of daily life , and spontaneous methods of attack which they mistook for political strategy . |
| 5 | Even the Government have recognised the need for reform , although the review which they commissioned in 1990 , which has yet to report , appears to have been an excuse for inaction . |
| 6 | A sort of sponge , low and crusty and golden , which they ate with apricot jam . |
| 7 | Trade unions had been growing throughout the nineteenth century but they were still without those distinctive legal privileges which they acquired in 1906 . |
| 8 | Stirling , Cooper and Seekings headed for Benina which they knew from past experience was a major repair base . |
| 9 | Neither the size of the responses nor the glucose concentration at which they began during stepped slow fall hypoglycaemia was different . |
| 10 | The obvious example is Australia , which was separated early , and in which the marsupial mammals had the opportunity to adapt to a whole range of ecological niches , which they managed with remarkable success in spite of a low cranial capacity and a primitive mode of reproduction . |
| 11 | Commenting on a study which they made in 1965 of applications for treatment at the New York Psychoanalytic Institute , they find the following typical pattern : |
| 12 | The voyage which they made in 1939 resulted , in 1944 , in the publication of Narrow Boat , a passionate evocation of the British canals and of the lives of those who lived and worked upon them . |
| 13 | Perhaps the last occasion on which they figured at all prominently was at the coronation of Alexander II of Russia in 1856 . |
| 14 | The children built it themselves , underground , and it was their ‘ secret place ’ which they filled with useful domestic items as well as making a place for the gun . |
| 15 | The duels between these two groups were fought with knives which they carried in small scabbards on their belts , and it was only some time later that the rival school 's knockout tactics were discovered . |
| 16 | Of climbing Ratagan ( which they spelt in different ways : Boswell , ‘ Ratakin' : Johnson , ‘ Ratiken ’ ) in the early afternoon , Johnson confided in Mrs Thrale ( to whom he spells it ‘ Rattiken ’ ) ‘ more difficulty than we had yet experienced ’ , a formidable demur , given the harshness of the ride out from Fort Augustus to Anoch . |
| 17 | The influence of his teacher , Dvorak , hangs over the Serenade in E flat , but it is a bright , attractively varied piece which they played with fine control , rich sonorities , and exemplary attention to dynamics and rhythm . |
| 18 | I am certain that with no additional resource , we can do more for our researchers than provide then with yet another data archive where they can deposit the materials which they developed with inadequate support and for which they got too little recognition . |
| 19 | After the break Walden began to win more ball , which they ran with great vigour , and were unlucky not to score on a couple of occasions . |
| 20 | They were quickly fitted with track brakes and put back into service on the Crystal Palace route still in Croydon Corporation livery , in which they ran for several weeks , before being sent to Hendon in turn for repainting and renumbering . |
| 21 | Although generally not territorial , cuckoos return regularly to the area in which they bred in previous years . |
| 22 | The great saint bishops of fifth-century Gaul were provided with an unequalled opportunity for the exercise of pastoral care , which they seized with open arms . |
| 23 | Officers showed us two-and-a-half thousand Russian icons which they seized in two swoops on illegal exporters . |
| 24 | John Liley converted to give Leicester a 12-10 lead which they stretched to 18-10 before Bowling and Llanelli hit back . |
| 25 | Indeed , Hateley is confident that the Scottish champions , buoyant after the way in which they disposed of English champions Leeds , can lick the continent 's cream . |
| 26 | Some who had failed to get out of the way in time bore the scars like war wounds or medals which they paraded for public admiration . |
| 27 | Formerly , Alick Nkhata and men like him had adapted the western popular music of the time , particularly country and western music , which they married with traditional melodies and themes . |
| 28 | Although as yet their role was peripheral , from the point of view of Russia 's subsequent history the new ideology and forms of organization which they adopted in this period merit close attention . |
| 29 | Cecil 's response , which they received on 6 August , was an expression of sympathy — and equally cautious . |
| 30 | This may be explained , at least in part , by the greater antigen binding capacity of the solid phase , and might explain why some of the antibodies showed reactivity with antigens bound to nitrocellulose which they failed to recognised by ELISA . |