Example sentences of "[subord] they [vb past] [verb] [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 | Some directors of the House of Industry had trespassed on workhouse premises , where they had lopped some trees without permission . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | His wife had been an islander by birth and after she died he decided to live there where they had spent many happy holidays . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He 'd survived where they had eliminated some of his followers because they took him at his own estimation , a man of the cloth . |
| 7 | A little later on she dropped Edna and Karen in Oxford Street , where they planned to do some shopping before catching the train home . |
| 8 | They had managed to stay together although they had lost all their kit and most of their clothes . |
| 9 | After a last stand further north , Europe 's finest army was destroyed ; although they had lost many men , the Norman nucleus survived . |
| 10 | His words were ringing in her ears now although they had had little impact before . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Although they had known each other such a short time , she could sense that he cared about her . |
| 13 | Spending chiefs decided to delay their decision until then , although they did discuss more council spending as well as less . |
| 14 | Ehrich and Koehler ( 1975 ) also produced a script recognition system which did not use real time information in its coding scheme , although they did use some sequence information . |
| 15 | This climate severely limited the ability of opposition groups to mobilize within the existing vertical structure , although they did have some success in getting their candidates elected as workplace representatives and as members of the company council . |
| 16 | The authorities did seek reserve powers by making all land subject to compulsory purchase , although they intended to leave most of it in the developers ' hands . |
| 17 | Ford dealers Quicks of Altrincham had more potential customers in the few hours after Mr Lamont 's speech than they 'd seen all week . |
| 18 | It is comparable with the now discredited phonetic method of teaching children to read where they no sooner learned to read by this method than they had to scrap all they had learned and then start all over again and learn to read properly . |
| 19 | It was n't Lloyds fault , it was just that they were complying with the original P E P regulations about reporting and , and er so on , so they had to charge more . |
| 20 | And I think erm the article itself erm s says in , in the , the first part it , it seems to be written in a very sort of erm very pro-peasant style , it 's like a justification of things that are happening , he s says that the reasons for the , the peasant movement were the exact opposite of what the gentry in Hankow and Changchun were saying erm that the , that the Party , that the revolutionary authorities had , had taken wrong measures because they thought that the reasons for these movements were , were otherwise and these we they were considered detrimental so they had to change these , these er original wrong meas measures to benefit the future of the revolution . |
| 21 | She said so I said , so they did do that ? |
| 22 | They also wanted some data at higher current densities , , but were nervous that increasing the amount of current could lead to another disaster — the vaporised palladium block still haunted Fleischmann — so they decided to achieve this by keeping the total currents approximately unchanged but using rods that were only 1.25 cm long instead of 10 cm , the effect being to increase the current density eightfold . |
| 23 | Once they 'd realized this , the villagers came to her often with their problems . |
| 24 | Well a a a at the time , they 'd just changed over from the erm Tenants ' Development Association , to the Tenants ' Action Group , so it was a bit disorganized to begin with , cos we were still sorting out the , everything from what they 'd left over and things , so , but once we 'd got that all so once they 'd got that all sorted out , yeah , it was . |
| 25 | A few well-to-do people , preferring a quiet existence , had built houses north of there , but once they had passed those and were driving along the Bloomingdale road , there were only isolated farmhouses and cottages . |
| 26 | In Chalatenango , a training school was opened for women interested in joining the military command , After a six-month course , the women trainees were asked to conduct an army ambush as proof of their military capabilities and once they had passed this test , were then sent to different battalions . |
| 27 | ‘ Hermione , ’ she said , once they had greeted each other , ‘ there is something I want to tell you ; it is sort of a secret . ’ |
| 28 | Glasgow is no exception , except , unlike other cities , once they started building these concrete jungles they forgot to stop . |
| 29 | And in an oblique swipe at her critics in the Bush Administration she added : ‘ Those countries protesting at their return would do better if they offered to take some of them . ’ |
| 30 | Those countries which were protesting about the repatriation would do far better if they offered to take some of the boat people themselves . |