Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb past] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Honours were presented at sessions of the Parliament , where they symbolised the royal presence , particularly when an infant sovereign could not be present . |
| 4 | The Remingtons emigrated to America in the 18th century , where they founded the great engineering company which bears their name . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | A Tribunal of Commissioners echoes these sentiments in R(S)4182 , where they described the judicial process in tribunals as ‘ fair play in action ’ . |
| 7 | The Liberal radicals and " Progressives " were eventually brought together by Sir Richard Acland into the Commonwealth Party in 1942 , where they provided the only effective electoral opposition to the wartime government . |
| 8 | He was quickly surrounded by police and taken to a neighbour 's house where they broke the tragic news that his four children — Sharon , aged five , and her brothers , Francis , four , Martin three , and Stefan , one — were dead . |
| 9 | Reverting to my analogy of the fire brigade , either my brigade went on strike over all those pork pies and rich , creamy cakes I used to eat , or they had the wrong directions . |
| 10 | His skies boiled and burned , or they reflected the eternal in the eyes of a baby . |
| 11 | Although they eschewed the large houses and endowments of the monks , they frequently attracted considerable wealth because of lay support for their fiery preaching and their concentration on the towns . |
| 12 | In the free industrial zones , trade unions were unofficially banned and the government refused to recognize the unions that were formed , although they fulfilled the legal requirements . |
| 13 | Although they founded the major revolutionary parties of the twentieth century , they were soon outnumbered within them . |
| 14 | Although they lost the Australian wing Ian Williams with a shoulder injury early on , their back division was outstanding , especially Mullin and the Canadian full-back Gareth Rees . |
| 15 | Laura Ashley bought substantial amounts of tweed from Cambrian Mill and although they paid the regular price , the company drew upon its charity budget to subsidize this at the rate of a pound per metre . |
| 16 | The critics seemed to approve of the poetry , although they emphasized the theatrical and " dated " aspects of the play . |
| 17 | No sooner had they sat down than they heard the distant ring of the telephone . |
| 18 | They took a long time to settle , missing more than they realised the wise , old heads of Ackford , Teague and even Richards . |
| 19 | Again , since the adoption of the 1.68 ball , European golfers have , perforce , worked the ball much more than they did the 1.62 . |
| 20 | and within the last say twenty five years there 's been a dramatic change in the young people 's way of thinking , maybe more of them have gone to university than they did the previous twenty five years and that there is such a difference now than there was that I mean for instance if there was a war there would n't , there would be far more conscientious objectors than there ever was before far more than erm young man saying no I 'm going to fight for my country , be patriotic I do n't think you would find , for instance , the youth of this country so patriotic as they was in the last war , your country needs you . |
| 21 | For one thing it overlooks God 's clear part in the extraordinary events that they witnessed the previous day . |
| 22 | Bob Shepton says that they sailed the atlantic and have been up to greenland so this was what was left to do … |
| 23 | It is while at an Instructor training course at the scouts ' Longbridge centre that they met the infamous Saun Baker and started to paddle with an informal group of Thames weir bashers . |
| 24 | It was only when doing a post-mortem that they discovered the two small puncture marks side by side on her left buttock . |
| 25 | Additionally , they could be mixed with their neighbouring emotions so that they formed the secondary emotions of : submission , awe , disappointment , remorse , contempt , aggression , optimism , and love . |
| 26 | Of course it is not true for anyone that they lived the past 40 years in vain . |
| 27 | One reason why some of the most energetic of antislavery activists in the 1830s resorted to the mass public meeting , the public lecture , the organisation of vast petitions and the delegate convention was that they lacked the easy personal access to ministers and administrators which an earlier generation of antislavery leaders possessed . |
| 28 | Then the Bonn government leaned on Germany 's aerospace industry chiefs so hard that they scrapped the whole event . |
| 29 | The Pentagon must be glad that they added the faint possibility that there was one chance in ten thousand that security might be breached . |
| 30 | Tom Mann believed that they made the best pickets of all . |