Example sentences of "[subord] they [vb past] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The team was put through a daily fitness programme , starting with a 40 minute run before breakfast and finishing at the nearby police gym where they took in circuit and weight training before going on another one-and-a half mile run . |
| 2 | Eight Green deputies were elected in eastern Germany , where they campaigned in alliance with the civil rights group , Bundnis 90 . |
| 3 | The impression of the wood grain is often preserved on the metal components where they came into contact . |
| 4 | The mood of the meeting was adversely affected by President Roh Tae Woo 's forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union [ see p. 37918 ] , and by a series of confrontations involving journalists in the Northern delegation who made unauthorized visits to several of Seoul 's universities where they met with student radicals . |
| 5 | Each year Zuwaya moved between the northern coastal strip of semi-desert ( where they arrived in spring for the early pasture ) and the oases of the central Sahara . |
| 6 | Robert was far more interested in finding out where they stood on footwear , but this was clearly not an area that interested Ali . |
| 7 | For example , the members of the Rowdies group were well aware of their positions , and where they stood in relation to one another was clearly defined . |
| 8 | Under cover of the rugby-players , who surrounded them so that they were invisible to the sentries , two officers managed to bury themselves underground , where they remained until darkness : they then came to the surface and made their escape . |
| 9 | About 70 protesters , including the Glasgow Militant councillor , Tommy Sheridan , leader of the Scottish Anti Poll Tax Federation , began congregating at 8:00am at Mr Smeddon 's council house , where they remained until nightfall . |
| 10 | It was once owned by a cotton baron from Lancashire ; today it belongs to Brian and Ann who left Australia ( where they worked as wool buyers ) to fulfil their long-time ambition of opening their own hotel . |
| 11 | Their next port of call after their swim was nearby Lefkada where they stopped for lunch . |
| 12 | In Sweden the Social Democrats were ousted from power in 1976 after forty-five years in office by an alliance of ‘ bourgeois ’ parties , although they returned to office in 1982 . |
| 13 | The British penchant for shooting themselves in the foot emerged again when officials decided that professionals who resided and worked outside Britain were ineligible to play , although they qualified by birth . |
| 14 | But Jim says his firm had to settle for less than they expected over work on the Minister 's home in Putney , south-west London . |
| 15 | ‘ Specialists ’ might have to enjoy even better conditions of life under socialism than they had under capitalism if they were to be well motivated . |
| 16 | The same group placed much more emphasis on their children being happy and enjoying their lessons than they did on examination results . |
| 17 | they 're eating better than they did at dinner time . |
| 18 | Well , no I do n't say a lot , but more people than they did in peace days even then you know . |
| 19 | They counted the number of the copulations and they found the females were copulating much more than they needed in order to have , have offspring , so the big problem is why do female adders go to all the trouble of extra copulations with extra males when they could easily just make do with one or two and store the semen , and er the consequence as you could have predicted I think having attended my lectures , is that there does seem to be selection for erm sperm competition in male adders and the , the supposition seems to be that females are openly inciting male sperm competition , because they 're mating with many more males than they need to and there does n't seem to be another gain , they do n't get provisioning from a male , they , all they get is sperm . |
| 20 | At times the heat could become unbearable so they slept on deck as they came through the Suez Canal . |
| 21 | There were pitched battles , so they lay in wait for you . |
| 22 | By comparison with the Greeks and Etruscans the Romans were slow to accept coinage and when they did so they began with copper . |
| 23 | And so they made for home . |
| 24 | All the different schools had er cos then we had , used to compete against er all sports and we used to get an afternoon football we used to march from up to the and erm play football but we did n't go up there until at half-time at erm play-time so they went to school at two o'clock and at half past three then that 'd be our break , then we 'd go up to erm football till five o'clock . |
| 25 | And so they scattered over Minginish , becoming the Hidden Folk . |
| 26 | The hazard of this diet was that patients had to have an alternative source of energy so they turned to fat . |
| 27 | ‘ So they turned into jungle . |
| 28 | The Conservative philosophy fitted , so they moved from Labour to Conservative . ’ |
| 29 | Once they came upon Acorn , who was evidently being taken on a tour of the same kind . |
| 30 | Their findings echoed many of the criticisms by the family Rights Group and the National Association of Young People in Care , over the adversarial and high-handed approaches adopted by social workers once they decided on admission ( thus on a court order ) , and over the care experience for children and links with parents . |