Example sentences of "[Wh det] they [adv] [vb past] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house was broken into in the early hours of Friday morning and the intruders carried off the rock and pop CDs in a Head sports bag which they also stole from the house . |
| 2 | ‘ Personnel applied to Ardis for a reference — which they freely gave without mentioning anywhere that they had terminated your employment with them . |
| 3 | One decision will save local authorities at least part of the £500m they owe banks on contracts which they freely entered into . |
| 4 | To make matters worse , the college authorities interpreted it as a reflection on the conduct and organization of the society , which they accordingly ordered to be disbanded with immediate effect . |
| 5 | When it passed there remained in the locket a face which they both looked at speechless . |
| 6 | Mrs Knelle and June discussed turf , which they both used for fuel . |
| 7 | In New Zealand , Maori women sang and danced using a poi — as a ball attached to a piece of string , which they dexterously whirled round themselves . |
| 8 | When delivered ready to start running on I August 1913 , the ten ‘ SoutherN ’ buses were integrated with the L.G.O.C. fleet and allocated to Streatham Garage , from which they normally worked on route 59 , ( Oxford Circus and South Croydon ) which competed directly with Croydon Corporation trams , emphasising Croydon 's weakness in not having through running powers to work to London . |
| 9 | If in the judgment of the police authorities , formed reasonably and in good faith , the garrison was necessary for the protection of life and property , then they were not entitled to make a charge for it , for that would be to exact a payment for the performance of a duty which they clearly owed to the appellants and their servants ; but if they thought the garrison a superfluity and only acceded to Mr. James 's request with a view to meeting his wishes , then in my opinion they were entitled to treat the garrison duty as special duty and to charge for it … … . |
| 10 | ‘ Generally speaking most tradesmen have some ways peculiar to themselves which they either derived from masters who taught them or from the experience of things or from something in the course of business ’ , but this did not strictly apply to undertakers , |
| 11 | The researchers fed the emerging larvae , which they later found to be equally male or female , on sloth hair ( on which a green algae often grows ) , sloth dung , and leaves from those trees on which sloths generally feed . |
| 12 | This resulted in a claim of the canons of Le Puy to receive homage from Bigorre , which they allegedly sold in 1253 to Henry Ill . |
| 13 | As they moved from one to another , they collected meals of pollen and paid for them by becoming covered in excess pollen which they involuntarily delivered to the next flower they visited . |
| 14 | In Covent Garden , Luttrell tells us , " the image of the French king was made and drawn in a chariot , and over his head in capital letters was wrott , Lewis the greatest tyrant of fourteen " , which they eventually committed to the flames . |
| 15 | The cottage which they eventually discovered at Clevedon , on the Somerset coast south of Bristol , was not quite the ‘ honeymoon cottage ’ it has often been called . |
| 16 | Taylor 's ( 1971a ; 1971b ) Marxist approach sees contemporary spectator violence as a consequence of the increasing loss of control experienced by working-class football supporters over a game which they previously regarded as theirs . |
| 17 | Police searching the plaintiff 's premises for stolen goods seized goods which they mistakenly thought to be stolen . |
| 18 | A second , and more interesting , possibility is that subjects are actually recalling the situations in which they personally felt at risk irrespective of any other features of the junction . |
| 19 | All you have to do to get your hands on the goodies is to study the adverts on this page and pick , from the choice below each ad , the year in which they actually appeared in our Live Ads section . |
| 20 | On the other hand , princes felt free to vent their own anger in ways which they now blocked to others . |
| 21 | On the boat , Johnson asked about ‘ the use of the dirk , with which he imagined the Highlanders cut their meat ’ , and was told they also had knives and forks , that the men tended to hand the knives and forks to the women after they had cut their own meat which they then ate from their hands , and that one old Macdonald retainer always ate fish with his fingers , claiming that ‘ a knife and fork gave it a bad taste ’ . |
| 22 | The black-out happened on Monday night when vandals crawled down a 100-yard tunnel which carried eight 33,000-volt mains cables , dragging a lorry tyre which they then set on fire . |
| 23 | The black-out happened on Monday night when vandals crawled down a 100-yard tunnel which carried eight 33,000-volt mains cables , dragging a lorry tyre which they then set on fire . |
| 24 | The Tollemarche ladies , in bonnets and cartwheel hats , gave teas at which they coyly sipped at China tea flavoured with lemon and mint . |
| 25 | He noted that his rats tended to adopt a strategy for sampling the stimuli in the first stage of ( simultaneous ) training in which they consistently looked into one arm of his T-maze , withdrawing and turning to the other arm only if confronted with the negative stimulus . |
| 26 | The place which they once occupied on the constitutional stages has now been occupied by the organs of local government . |
| 27 | Red deer are ideal animals to be considered for such sustainable management , because they are already maintained by human intervention on open hill land , very different from the forest habitat which they once occupied in Scotland and still inhabit in the rest of Europe . |
| 28 | But they failed to do so , and when Henry returned to France he was able to clear the enemy from strongholds which they still held near Paris , including the formidable town and fortress of Meaux , before which he spent some seven months in 1421–2 . |
| 29 | The custodianship of the path had become the prerogative of a few specialists with a fund of empirical knowledge which they gravely applied to securing the smooth passage of the Wheel . |
| 30 | The philosophy which they never tired of expounding to us included visions of a new world , which although sketchy and inevitably idealistic often showed an artistic and positively creative side to their existence . |