Example sentences of "[subord] they [vb past] [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where they 'd tipped the waste was it ? |
| 2 | She and her husband , Stephen , feel they 've only just begun to grieve , one we barn , where they 'd taken the girls in January last year . |
| 3 | Returning from one trip , where they had licensed the material of three groups to different American record labels , Branson and Draper were greeted at Heathrow airport by a girl brandishing a questionnaire : Where have you been ? |
| 4 | To make the point , he described a visit to a Toyota assembly line where they had developed the Kamba or Just in Time system . |
| 5 | He told him about their ruined holiday and where they had spent the previous night , although he did not reveal his unusual experience . |
| 6 | Seventy per cent of those continuing their studies were staying on In the same institution where they had taken the Advanced Course : the rest were changing institutions . |
| 7 | When the state took over recruitment under the Military Service Acts , the party continued to be involved : many agents were transferred to the army , where they continued to do the same job , and many party offices were lent to the government as recruitment centres . |
| 8 | Although the band had chosen where they wanted to record the album — Compass Point in Nassau , Bahamas — they had no one to record with us usual collaborators Paul Oakenfold and Steve Osborne , producers behind the laid-back groove of ‘ Pills'N'Thrills And Bellyaches ’ , were tied up with commitments to their Perfecto label . |
| 9 | While their father accepted that they were both of an age where they wanted to fly the nest , their mother , who , it had to be said , doted on her son — who 'd been a constant source of worry to her — took a little longer . |
| 10 | Albrow ( 1986 ) has questioned what he calls the ‘ myth of the heroic struggle ’ in sociology , but it seems clear that many disciplines had to fight hard to gain entry and become established , especially where they appeared to threaten the hegemony of existing disciplines , as English and modern languages did with classics , the social sciences with history , and now perhaps computing with mathematics . |
| 11 | But although they 'd pursued the same career , that career had taken them in different directions , their meetings infrequent . |
| 12 | If he showed them the latest Washington telegram which he had seen before his departure [ KPs 66 and 85 ] , they would have been made aware that although they had to exercise the utmost restraint for the time being , a new and firmer policy might soon be adopted . |
| 13 | And although they managed to change the yellow suit quite easily another disastrous creation would have been bought in its place had Ellie not been with her . |
| 14 | Although they proposed retaining the City of London Boys ' School on the Embankment , all buildings behind , including the School of Music , would be swept away . |
| 15 | The more weak-willed of the defenders very often spent more time watching the native princes eating their banquets than they did watching the enemy lines . |
| 16 | some reason it has n't accepted it and Brian says it 's probably cos me wages have n't gone in yet , the bank they ca n't be empty , so he 's hoping to get that by the time they took it out he 's money at the end , it 's embarrassing enough , so , he 's telling me , so they had to take the stuff off him |
| 17 | And the police up on the railway embankment when they walked home from school , and the tunnel fenced off so they had to go the long way round . |
| 18 | other things had gone up so they had to put the fares up , but I mean that 's , you can nae tell me that that 's right |
| 19 | ‘ It got dark Saturday afternoon while they were out hiking , so they had to use the Secret Service to find their way back down again . ’ |
| 20 | The Ndorrobo were not allowed to own cattle so they had to hunt the unappetizing wild game , something a Masai would never do . |
| 21 | The Corporation constructed a concrete paddling pool for children in the bed of the stream and to do so they had to alter the course of the stream and obstruct the natural flow of the water . |
| 22 | Neither Spooner nor Nation felt able to handle the writing task singly , so they chose to split the work half and half , with Spooner acting as unofficial Script Editor for the production . |
| 23 | erm Because the loggers have been , as I said earlier , logging 24 hours around the clock , and they 're supposed to be logging over a 70 year cycle , and they 're not because the companies have only got three year licenses , and basically the indigenous people have just had enough , so they started to block the logging roads . |
| 24 | After the ‘ Talk to Your Daughter ’ album came out , people started getting interested and so they started making the guitar again and people started buying it ! ’ |
| 25 | So , just as the falls are important to Schaffhausen 's expanding tourist industry , so energetically fostered by a lively local tourist office , so they helped lay the first foundations of prosperity hundreds of years ago . |
| 26 | But there was no stopping Swindon once they 'd got the second . |
| 27 | All children living in compounds within the study areas were eligible to enter the trials at any of the 4-monthly dosing points , once they had reached the age of 6 months . |
| 28 | Once they had reached the spiky barrier Trentham changed direction and began to crawl along the German side of the fence searching for a breach in the wire between them and safety . |
| 29 | Once they had reached the safety of the dug-out , the orderlies dumped the stretcher unceremoniously on the ground . |
| 30 | When 4 years later the US fleet was ordered to stop making sets on dolphins once they had exceeded the annual kill quota , catch rates of tuna were not in fact noticeably affected . |