Example sentences of "[subord] they [vb past] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the event , they rose from their seats , booed and shuffled out to the box-office , where they demanded their money back without success . |
| 2 | The big city station from which they saw off their loved ones to war , from where they left for their honeymoons and holidays , where they kept their romantic trysts under the station clock , has been obliterated or at the very least altered out of all recognition . |
| 3 | Little boys may be brought up in families where they saw their fathers exercising power in a very macho , bluff way . |
| 4 | With this in mind , it was important when moving into the schools market to consider who did the book buying in a school , and where they got their ideas from . |
| 5 | Then they can go back to asking each other where they got their blow-drys and leave the rest of us in peace . ’ |
| 6 | where they got their beliefs from , from them thinking , you know , they 've mixed men 's thinking with , with biologies and things ai n't they ? |
| 7 | Haberdashers ' batting against Johor State at Ceylon CC , Singapore , where they suffered their only defeat in six matches , four of which ended in victory for the touring school . |
| 8 | The Chieftains rarely enjoy their trips to South London , where they suffered their heaviest defeat of the season 16–3 in December . |
| 9 | Have patience — have patience , she told herself while his lips trailed a line from her mouth to her ear , where they nibbled her lobe . |
| 10 | His family packed him off to the great University of Nuln where they hoped his energies would be dispersed in academic study . |
| 11 | They were all walking along the lane that led to Ferngrove Park , where they held their Pack Meetings . |
| 12 | ANNADALE emerged victorious after the fourth and final round of the Panasonic League at the Antrim Forum where they increased their lead over Ballymena and Antrim . |
| 13 | ( Nothing to do with mice or holes but probably a corruption of the Cornish Moweshayl , young women 's river — perhaps where they did their washing . ) |
| 14 | In the event the persons who wanted to talk to Henry Tyler went to the Foreign Office to see him — where they found his rank to be rather higher than that of errand-boy . |
| 15 | ‘ Is n't that where they found his clothes ? |
| 16 | The patriarch Arsen III , fearful of Turkish reprisals following an abortive Austrian advance into Serbia , organised a mass migration of Serbs — probably over 30,000 families — to follow the retreating Austrians back across the Danube , where they joined their compatriots in Vojvodina . |
| 17 | It became the head of navigation where they unloaded their cargoes . |
| 18 | ‘ David ’ asked Joan if she would infiltrate the loyalist paramilitary organisations to find out where they hid their arms or ammunition . |
| 19 | Delegations from Senegal and Guinea-Bissau met in Sao Domingo , Guinea-Bissau , on May 29 , 1990 , where they reaffirmed their commitment not to harbour members of each other 's subversive movements and undertook to strengthen military co-operation . |
| 20 | In other words , although they transferred their own Golden Age from the past to the future , a quasi-cyclical factor was involved . |
| 21 | His parents never married , although they co-parented their child and , at 11 years old , he went to live full-time with his father who , he says , gave me a lot of focus and direction in my life . ’ |
| 22 | Although they enjoyed their lifestyle there was evidence that very long hours were worked , greater than the individual enterprises actually required . |
| 23 | Although they registered their disapproval at the MPs ' vote with the Government , the council group leader , Richard Lyle , said : ‘ Alex Salmond has the clear backing of the Motherwell SNP council group as does the SNP parliamentary group . |
| 24 | His family was moved to a modest family home nearby , although they retained their other house in Mayfair , London . |
| 25 | We have already noted that the Tories received fewer votes than Labour in 1951 : although they increased their share of the vote in 1955 , this share was actually falling by 1959 . |
| 26 | They won only three of the 15 races although they held their own until just past the halfway stage . |
| 27 | They then said to their Dad that although they missed their Mum very much indeed , they were beginning to see that their Dad needed them around to have people to talk to about their Mum , and so now they were asking Jesus to make sure nothing else awful happened . |
| 28 | Royce Simmons ' men snatched a shock 14–13 victory in September , although they lost their next three games against the champions , including a 42–0 defeat on their own ground . |
| 29 | Royce Simmons ' men snatched a shock 14–13 victory in September , although they lost their next three games against the champions including a 42–0 defeat on their own ground . |
| 30 | Her parents , although they loved their daughter , were not the most understanding of people and assumed that she was being disobedient . |