Example sentences of "[Wh det] they [vb past] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He left and found a squalid flat in Brentford , which they shared with another couple and their children . |
| 2 | Those who could not stand it returned home worn out by the virulence of anti-Irish racism which they experienced from English people . |
| 3 | When they began to travel abroad they invested in a couple of suits and a jacket which they passed around each other . |
| 4 | Despite revolutionary zeal , or perhaps because of it , they sought immediate compensations for the miseries of daily life , and spontaneous methods of attack which they mistook for political strategy . |
| 5 | A sort of sponge , low and crusty and golden , which they ate with apricot jam . |
| 6 | Stirling , Cooper and Seekings headed for Benina which they knew from past experience was a major repair base . |
| 7 | The obvious example is Australia , which was separated early , and in which the marsupial mammals had the opportunity to adapt to a whole range of ecological niches , which they managed with remarkable success in spite of a low cranial capacity and a primitive mode of reproduction . |
| 8 | The duels between these two groups were fought with knives which they carried in small scabbards on their belts , and it was only some time later that the rival school 's knockout tactics were discovered . |
| 9 | Of climbing Ratagan ( which they spelt in different ways : Boswell , ‘ Ratakin' : Johnson , ‘ Ratiken ’ ) in the early afternoon , Johnson confided in Mrs Thrale ( to whom he spells it ‘ Rattiken ’ ) ‘ more difficulty than we had yet experienced ’ , a formidable demur , given the harshness of the ride out from Fort Augustus to Anoch . |
| 10 | The influence of his teacher , Dvorak , hangs over the Serenade in E flat , but it is a bright , attractively varied piece which they played with fine control , rich sonorities , and exemplary attention to dynamics and rhythm . |
| 11 | I am certain that with no additional resource , we can do more for our researchers than provide then with yet another data archive where they can deposit the materials which they developed with inadequate support and for which they got too little recognition . |
| 12 | After the break Walden began to win more ball , which they ran with great vigour , and were unlucky not to score on a couple of occasions . |
| 13 | They were quickly fitted with track brakes and put back into service on the Crystal Palace route still in Croydon Corporation livery , in which they ran for several weeks , before being sent to Hendon in turn for repainting and renumbering . |
| 14 | Although generally not territorial , cuckoos return regularly to the area in which they bred in previous years . |
| 15 | The great saint bishops of fifth-century Gaul were provided with an unequalled opportunity for the exercise of pastoral care , which they seized with open arms . |
| 16 | Officers showed us two-and-a-half thousand Russian icons which they seized in two swoops on illegal exporters . |
| 17 | Indeed , Hateley is confident that the Scottish champions , buoyant after the way in which they disposed of English champions Leeds , can lick the continent 's cream . |
| 18 | Some who had failed to get out of the way in time bore the scars like war wounds or medals which they paraded for public admiration . |
| 19 | Formerly , Alick Nkhata and men like him had adapted the western popular music of the time , particularly country and western music , which they married with traditional melodies and themes . |
| 20 | Although as yet their role was peripheral , from the point of view of Russia 's subsequent history the new ideology and forms of organization which they adopted in this period merit close attention . |
| 21 | Cecil 's response , which they received on 6 August , was an expression of sympathy — and equally cautious . |
| 22 | That alliance promised the prospect of a kingdom in the areas which they wrested from Ottoman control . |
| 23 | She remembered how the table around which they sat at High Tea , was covered with a sheet of speckled grey lino which had a strange stickiness . |
| 24 | The left argued that children who speak dialect at home could not be expected to speak Standard English , which they regarded as middle class , and that it was improper to make this an essential attainment target in a national curriculum . |
| 25 | Nos. 378 , 382 and 387 received carbon skid trolley heads in March 1948 , which they retained for twelve months . |
| 26 | Their confidence shattered , Darlington batsmen turned in another dismal display at home to Hartlepool in a game which they lost by seven wickets . |
| 27 | In this case it is clear that the original excavators included only those coins which they deemed of sufficient importance for publication . |
| 28 | ‘ They were fortified towns built in the Middle Ages , some by the French and some by the English , from which they preyed on each other , particularly during the Hundred Years ’ War between our countries . |
| 29 | Brooke J. observed that if such a residual jurisdiction did not exist , then the judges would be left with a duty to perform but without the power to perform it in a way which they considered in all cases to be just . |
| 30 | Ten Scottish National Party members invaded a room on the first floor of the building which they occupied for three hours before being evicted by security guards . |