Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was self-service , and guests carried their food on little plastic trays to mucky tables , where they ate to the accompaniment of strident pop music . |
| 2 | The US duo arrived in Spain on a private jet from North Carolina , where they played in the US Tour Championship on Sunday , and both have to be back in the States next Monday . |
| 3 | With the help of the dogs , who leapt silently through the snow , George managed to usher them to a barn , where they massed on the sheltered side . |
| 4 | Prudential Assurance 's policy treats items such as the installation of a telephone and television aerials where they existed in the old house but not in the new and the reconnection of electrical/gas appliances as separate items . |
| 5 | The church was in ruins , and the monks had put up a temporary building over the main altar , where they gathered round the body of St Dunstan for their daily offices . |
| 6 | Local folklore has it that in prehistoric times men drove wild cattle to their deaths over Combe Scar and ate them where they fell at the foot of the crag ( cattle bones are reputed to have been found there ) . |
| 7 | This specimen is exceptionally well-preserved , retaining its spines where they fell around the animal as it died . |
| 8 | But seaweed and stones lodged in the uprooted bushes that littered the low hills and meadows ; beehives were found where they rolled in the bed of a stream ; fish lay silver in farmyards , and drowned sheep on the shore . |
| 9 | The overwhelming majority of Russians — some 83 per cent in the 1989 census — lived in the Russian Republic , where they accounted for the same proportion of the local population . |
| 10 | After the rehearsal they all , Miranda too , went to the Adelphi tea-rooms , where they laughed at the décor : " Straight from the thirties , darling . |
| 11 | He had never called her that before ; nor had he ever touched her as he touched her now , his good right hand caressing both of hers where they lay atop the bedclothes . |
| 12 | Where they disappeared amid the crazed valleys and jumbled boulders of the dusty scablands , the first explorers drew back in defeat , unable to decipher the wild terrain . |
| 13 | Invariably , in such cases , the two sides ended up where they started with the RCM pleading moderation and a softly , softly approach . |
| 14 | Conservative Coun Peter Jones said the Dryden affair could have been avoided if both sides had known where they stood from the outset . |
| 15 | Earlier , at a London news conference , Mr Ashdown challenged Mr Kinnock and Mr Major to make clear where they stood in the event of a hung parliament . |
| 16 | Bourgeois society took for granted the sanctity of property , the supremacy of the market as a social regulator , the propriety of individual self-improvement and self-advancement , the abandonment of the traditional and irrational where they stood in the way of utility , and a belief in progress . |
| 17 | T. Fox , a company who maintained cloth making there , where they remained until the turn of the century . |
| 18 | The bodies of 6 ewes and a ram were piled onto a tractor trailer near where they drowned in the Stretford Brook . |
| 19 | With many smiles and good-nights , the four went upstairs and another meeting took place in the newly-painted room , where they sat on the floor , and discussed the new problem posed by Faye and Roberta , who did not like Comrade Andrew 's role in their affairs . |
| 20 | Whereas , if they were involved in the end where they sat with the form teacher |
| 21 | A puff of wind swung it round on its vane , and snatched a bunch of twigs from its beak and sent them twirling slowly down the steeple to the ground at Carol 's feet , where they sank into the snow . |
| 22 | ’ He reached out to touch her fingers where they rested on the table . |
| 23 | Betty Hawkes took her to the local hop that evening , where they danced to the strict tempo of Victor Sylvester records : a very different world to the music of Miller and Goodman and Basie that she 'd jived to in the States . |
| 24 | But although they lived as the only intellectual representatives of their own language in so small a place as Rapallo , they were not destined to decrease each other 's mental loneliness . |
| 25 | The music was extremely good to dance to and the skins were excellent dancers , although they turned to the slow , deep soul music for close dancing . |
| 26 | Although they tended in the early decades to entertain an idealized image of the peasantry , their subsequent reappraisals could hardly have been more thorough . |
| 27 | 4 subjects failed to attend for assessment at 4 weeks although they remained in the study . |
| 28 | Simon Kellett and Ashley Metcalfe were in a business-like mood and although they picked off the bad balls , they took few unnecessary risks . |
| 29 | Ten minutes later , Mr and Mrs Crumwallis , returning earlier than they expected from the wine and cheese do , heard even from their quarters the noise from the boarding section . |
| 30 | But police in Foxboro , Massa-chusetts , said there was less trouble than they expected from the 50,000 crowd . |