Example sentences of "[subord] they had [been] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Foreign scholars as well as foreign diplomats found to their surprise that where they had been led to expect barbarity , they found civilization and love of learning ; for Giovanni Ferreri , who settled in the abbey of Kinloss , close to the university of Aberdeen , Girolamo Aleandro , teacher of Greek and Hebrew at Paris , and Girolamo Cardano , physician of Milan , Scottish scholars were welcome members of the academic community of Europe . |
| 2 | The five players returned to the hotel 's night-bar , where they had been asked to calm down earlier in the night . |
| 3 | The police had been called to a youth club where they had been asked by one of the supervisors to assist in excluding trespassers before the evening 's festivities got under way . |
| 4 | As the boats began to leave the mouth of the River Tees , where they had been barring the way to Teesport , they claimed their eight-hour show of strength had been a success . |
| 5 | It was not known yesterday if the three had returned to Scotland or to the Costa del Sol where they had been living before their arrest . |
| 6 | His back was lacerated , the tips of his ears bloody where they had been cropped whilst a fool 's cap , fastened to his head , listed his lies and deceptions . |
| 7 | While some would be used as breeding earths , others would in due course be used as hideaways as vixens brought their young from areas where they had been disturbed . |
| 8 | There were until about 20 years ago , mosaic pavements from Roman times displayed in their original positions where they had been discovered during field work , together with one unearthed some little distance away at a later excavation . |
| 9 | When she eventually returned , utterly distraught , our fears were confirmed : she had discovered the men 's bodies lying where they had been shot . |
| 10 | Then from the back of the platform , where they had been seated , there stepped forward some twenty or perhaps thirty men , to whom were given silver plates containing little cubes of bread , and with these they moved down among the congregation … |
| 11 | It is easy to forget that the majority of the people living on earth still lived and died where they had been born , or , more precisely , that their movements were no greater or no different from what they would have been before the Industrial Revolution . |
| 12 | Bruce 's forces were defeated first in Methven wood by the English , and then beside Loch Tay by Comyn 's uncle , the Lord of Lorn The king 's sister and the Countess of Buchan who had crowned him were dragged out of sanctuary where they had been sent for safety , and exhibited in cages hanging from castle walls at Roxburgh and Berwick . |
| 13 | Uscfrea and Yffi died in infancy in Gaul among the Franks , where they had been sent for greater safety ( HE 11 , 20 ) . |
| 14 | Beyond it lay , if she had chosen to conjure them up , unwashed coffee cups , trousers lying where they had been stepped out of , heaped dusty papers ring-stained with wine-glasses , a carpet full of dust and ashes , the smell of socks and other smells . |
| 15 | Tallis noticed shields impaled on broken branches , standards fluttering raggedly where they had been flung . |
| 16 | He listed all the sculptures made and where they had been found . |
| 17 | He had cut off the girl 's head and put it next to her father 's on the garden path , where they had been found by a neighbour . |
| 18 | He noticed that someone had moved the few horses they had managed to round up , and sent two men to find out where they had been taken . |
| 19 | On Oct. 15 the US Representative for Trade Negotiations Carla Hills said in Washington that the USA had rejected EC proposals for " re-balancing " , which sought tariff increases on items such as oil seeds to offset cuts elsewhere , adding that the USA could " not tolerate " such an idea , which effectively allowed the re-imposition of tariffs , even where they had been negotiated away . |
| 20 | Evidence that the heat of the blast was the cause of death was abundant — there were many poignant scenes of entire families dead in rooms where glass bottles , jugs , bowls and cutlery stood perfectly undamaged on tables where they had been set out . |
| 21 | He began anagramming , twisting letters round , keeping in mind where they had been going , where Mary was still going … |
| 22 | Four derelict PBYs were located at Orange County Airport in Southern California where they had been abandoned after a Navy surplus sale . |
| 23 | The curtains were wet where they had been sucked into the fringe of the deluge . |
| 24 | They cut , and the actress scrambled up and examined her knees ; a woman from Wardrobe ran up and gave her a change of mack , and bent to apply panstick to her hands where they had been dirtied by the wrecker's-yard floor ; she checked her hose and brushed her hair and the actress shook her head slowly from side to side so that it fluffed . |
| 25 | All three were fined a total equivalent to US$25,000 million in compensation damages to the state and were to be held in solitary confinement at the naval base on San Lorenzo , an island off the port of Callao near the capital , Lima , where they had been tried . |
| 26 | The lorry 's battery landed where they had been standing . |
| 27 | Garda James McElroy said that when the case first came before the court , on February 25 , it was found that there were no summonses to proceed with , although they had been served . |
| 28 | For both of them , though , the marriage vow was binding , and although they had been tempted , their relationship was still platonic . |
| 29 | The dispute was still continuing in 1637 : the lessees of the disafforested lands complained that ‘ the people of the country adjacent will not pay any considerable rent for what they say have been their commons ’ , although they had been allotted a considerable share of the forest wastes in lieu of common rights . |
| 30 | As he moved towards the table Joe noticed that , although they had been bidden to take their seats , neither Mrs Carver , nor Mick , nor Carrie did until Mr Carver was seated ; then , each pulling a chair out from under the table , they sat down ; and having done so , Mick pointed to a carved chair with a leather seat and said to him , ‘ Come , sit down . |