Example sentences of "[conj] they [verb] [vb pp] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Never one to wallow in self-pity , he 'd started by mugging a couple of Indian kids in bright shirts behind the bus station and then he 'd followed a Yuppie type from his bank 's Cashcard machine to the stairway of a multi-storey car park , where they 'd had some dealings involving a Rolex and all the wad in the Yuppie 's wallet . |
| 2 | where they 've got that ghost in the house |
| 3 | And she was laying up by the quay by where they 've got those |
| 4 | Some directors of the House of Industry had trespassed on workhouse premises , where they had lopped some trees without permission . |
| 5 | They were already in some difficulty in northern Tonkin , where they had abandoned some of their isolated posts , so that , once again , it was the presence of China — shadow , perhaps , rather than substance — which was helping to transform the appreciations and perception of the struggle . |
| 6 | His wife had been an islander by birth and after she died he decided to live there where they had spent many happy holidays . |
| 7 | A month ago they , together with the males , left the burrows on the floor of the forest inland where they had spent most of the year and began a long march to the coast . |
| 8 | He 'd survived where they had eliminated some of his followers because they took him at his own estimation , a man of the cloth . |
| 9 | However , that is a mechanical provision : Williams v Singer is authority for the proposition that the trustees can not be assessed where they have made such a direction . |
| 10 | Some have argued that the TNCs have disrupted traditional family life where they have hired more women than men , for example along Mexico 's northern border ( see Fernandez-Kelly , in Nash and Fernandez-Kelly , 1983 ) . |
| 11 | A good pile is made of the birch twigs ; then , when all is ready , the handful of needle-thins is taken from the pocket ( where they have left much of their moisture ) , put into the fire centre , and carefully lit with a match . |
| 12 | The senior nurse now acts as a support , resource and coordinator and a flattened hierarchy results : the senior nurse is the key to the professional development of staff who often come from a traditional nursing culture , where they have had little accountability . |
| 13 | Inadequate timetabling , the organisation of lessons during lunchtimes and instead of normal lessons or assemblies , the allocation of unsatisfactory classrooms , the poor arrangement of furniture for learning purposes , the lack of suitable materials — all these factors tend to discourage learners of community languages , especially where they have had little influence on the choice of their subject options when a community language is involved . |
| 14 | That 's actually on all critical illness cover plans , because if they 've got a living assurance , or they 've got some other plan that 's got critical illness benefit , it 's the total maximum that Abbey will insure them for , for critical illness , for heart attacks , stroke etcetera . |
| 15 | They did so in the face of widespread steel closures , rising unemployment , and knowledge about their poor prospects of re-employment , or they had had enough of work and felt they deserved a rest . |
| 16 | They had managed to stay together although they had lost all their kit and most of their clothes . |
| 17 | After a last stand further north , Europe 's finest army was destroyed ; although they had lost many men , the Norman nucleus survived . |
| 18 | His words were ringing in her ears now although they had had little impact before . |
| 19 | Although they had had several centuries to grow into the landscape , they still represented a foreign intrusion for many increasingly xenophobic Englishmen , and the growing attack on their position made little real attempt to differentiate between ‘ good ’ and ‘ bad ’ houses . |
| 20 | Although they had known each other such a short time , she could sense that he cared about her . |
| 21 | Although they have made some ventures into the high street , their major specialism is the finance of international trade and they deal extensively in the foreign exchange market . |
| 22 | In virtually all cases secondary teachers have experienced least activity , although they have made most use of in-service days , staff questionnaires and pupil questionnaires to conduct the review . |
| 23 | Nevertheless the efforts of conservative historians , although they have done much to restore the image of the Church of England after 1830 , have done little to qualify the depiction of the period from the early eighteenth century to that date as a " phase of prolonged , rapid , and disastrous decline " . |
| 24 | That would be bad news for Wales , although they have expected all along that wonder wing David Campese would be 100 per cent by the time it came to the crunch in Cardiff . |
| 25 | Biogas plants are already a familiar sight in China and India , although they have had some unforeseen side effects , such as depriving the very poorest people of a source of cow dung . |
| 26 | Ford dealers Quicks of Altrincham had more potential customers in the few hours after Mr Lamont 's speech than they 'd seen all week . |
| 27 | No , not precisely I , I was a bit too young then , I , I remember all the songs about her Amy wonderful Amy and all those and oh and when she married Jim I was very much in but I could n't actually say I remembered her crashing at Walsall The erm you could , yeah , when I came home from work one Monday afternoon my nan said this eighty eight had gone over very low , and we , we heard that they 'd dropped this landmine this same aircraft had dropped this landmine that had gone under the gas holder at the gas works , in Road and the , they had some rescue workers from the A R P to get it out they never even bothered calling for the Royal Engineers , but the situation was that landmines used to come down on parachutes , and they used to slide into places which were inaccessible but anyway , they relied on the local Walsall A R P to get them out . |
| 28 | But it was very premature , and I 'm very I was very sorry that they 'd taken this step , but very , very pleased when I saw the result coming out , and I 'm do congratulate them on their common sense there that they were prepared to put the opting out aside and were looking seriously and sensibly into the tertiary college consultations . |
| 29 | Not that they 'd had many takers , no more than fifty , mostly scum from prison camps attracted by the offer of good food , women and money . |
| 30 | Losing at home four two to Swindon , their arch rivals after being two in front , but I 'd just like to make one point clear ; do n't blame manager Brian Horton because all of Oxford 's matches that they 've lost this season has been through their own fault : lack of character out there on the pitch , there 's nothing Brian can do sat on the bench . |