Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb past] [prep] [noun] [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Narrow canals suffered most from rail competition ; where they ran through towns there was often little physical space for expansion . |
| 2 | But Lord Reid , with whom Lord Guest agreed , was certainly critical of those decisions and pointed out , as their Lordships have also done , that they relied on authorities which did not support their conclusion . |
| 3 | So when the boys and I met and they said over tea I th , well why do n't we do something about a love affair , it just seemed right . |
| 4 | And now William was the last surviving friend of his childhood and they met as dissidents who have escaped the Gulag but left their roots behind and need each other to share the memories . |
| 5 | The endowments of the schools were rarely lavish , and they depended on fees which necessarily remained high . |
| 6 | Explained that I had no power to do this without your authority but would be glad to know Tolbukhin 's views and that if they coincided with mine I would ask you officially . |
| 7 | When that was rejected he argued in favour of his old plan of travelling on foot by the secret paths ; there were so many footpaths they could not all be watched and there was a chance that if they came upon outlaws there would be no more than one or two . |
| 8 | If they ran into trouble they hoped — without too much justification — for help from England , and they knew they were most unlikely to get it from their neighbours . |
| 9 | What neither German radio nor the public knew was that the Duke of Buccleuch was placed under house arrest on his estates in Scotland , several aristocrats were personally warned by Churchill that if they talked of peace they would be jailed , and Lord Londonderry was questioned inconclusively about a meeting that was alleged to have taken place on his Mountstewart estate in Northern Ireland with four German agents who had travelled up through the Free State . |
| 10 | It was then that I began to understand how archaeologists could be led into serious error if they decided in advance what they were going to find . |
| 11 | Oh yeah , and his dog , yeah likes it as well yeah , they used to leave a tray out for him every night , yeah when it was closing time the dog knew every time it closed , it wo , I mean if they closed at lunchtime it would n't come down it would only come down when they closed up at night . |
| 12 | Also , I might add , compared to scum saying ‘ Man Utd have the class/skill to break down sides if they are so negative ’ … yeah you stupid cunt — just like they did to Ipswich themselves . |
| 13 | But they knew of course it 'll happen . |
| 14 | During the late nineteenth century , Medical Officers of Health , in particular , contended that women going out to work were responsible for raising the infant mortality rate because they tended to bottle-feed their infants and because , by carrying them out to nurse in the early morning , they exposed them to bronchitis . |
| 15 | Before they sailed from London they had undertaken to do all that they could under all the emergencies of the voyage . |
| 16 | Before they went to bed they had filled buckets with what was left of the pool to use in the lavatories . |
| 17 | But after they arrived in England her husband became a perpetual student and their life deteriorated . |
| 18 | When they landed at Málaga it was hot , in spite of the fact that it was only the end of April . |
| 19 | BRITAIN 'S MINERS DO vital job in gruelling conditions but when they went on strike they sacrificed all their earnings and were attacked by the police . |
| 20 | And as they went out from Bivar they had a crow on their right hand , and when they came to Burgos they had a crow on the left . |
| 21 | Such low relief is found in Greek art too ; but Greek sculptors seem to have begun with free-standing statues , and when they came to relief their approach was affected by the conventions of that art . |
| 22 | When they returned to Britain it was the Depression . |
| 23 | When they returned to reception there was no-one on duty . |
| 24 | Shortly after his arrival he got together a conference of Anglo-Burmans , who agreed that when they returned to Burma they would ally themselves more closely with the people of the country rather than as exclusively with the British side of their heritage as they had tended to do in pre-war days . |
| 25 | When they got to St-Jean it was only a little past midnight and the cafes were still open . |
| 26 | When they got to Bridge they , if they had n't got a permit they they had to go back , the pickets 'd be there . |
| 27 | When they got to Plymouth he would be station-master as well . |
| 28 | For all his-lofty declarations of the Christian mission to liberate the enslaved subjects of Communism , when they pleaded for liberation he remained deaf , if it meant risking war . |
| 29 | Hepzibah says when they lived in Norfolk she had an awful time looking after him because he was always in fights and he was young then , too young to hurt anyone much . |
| 30 | When they arrived at Chertsey her excitement increased . |