Example sentences of "[subord] they had [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Much of the technology used in the Macintosh came via Xerox 's Palo Alto Research Centre where they had also been investigating page printing technology and methods of transferring complex graphics between screens and the printed page . |
| 2 | The Germans had shifted their position since the writing of the Delors Report : where they had previously wanted ‘ binding rules ’ for budget deficits , they now called for ‘ sanctions ’ to be available to the Community as a means of enforcing the bank 's decisions on recalcitrant member states . |
| 3 | Sleek towers that were telescoping down into the undercity , leaving great smooth plazas where they had previously reared , chequerboard-patterned spaces with a hint of roof outlines . |
| 4 | Labour support tended to be concentrated in already safe seats while the Tories swung many of the southern marginals , as many of the managerial , professional and small business strata registered Tory votes where they had previously voted Liberal or not voted at all ( Bonham , 1954 ) . |
| 5 | During the meal they talked about England , mainly London where they had both lived . |
| 6 | They join the company from Maersk Company , where they had both worked as Dry Cargo Shipbrokers since 1989 . |
| 7 | Travis glanced at his watch and sighed , rising from the table in Paige 's room where they had just enjoyed a long , leisurely breakfast . |
| 8 | They were seated , as was their custom , in the summer-house , where they had just finished a light lunch . |
| 9 | A total of 40.7% of respondents chose their last holiday on the basis that they had done the same before and enjoyed it ; 19.7% went somewhere where they had always wanted to go ; and 17.9% went on a word-of-mouth recommendation . |
| 10 | But out here , on the high road , it was difficult to recall the purple and blue shadows and the firelight and the long oak table where they had all taken supper . |
| 11 | However a neat , dust-free rectangle in the centre showed where they had obviously lain . |
| 12 | Did Theo remember that mill on the road out of The Hague where they had once sat and pledged eternal friendship so passionately , over their glasses of milk ? |
| 13 | Under the Sunni Muslim Ottoman Empire in Syria , they were treated with contempt , abandoned to the poverty of the hill villages in southern Lebanon where they had originally come from Mount Lebanon . |
| 14 | It is doubtful if Marian and Allen would have found again the rock shelter where they had accidentally walked into the arms of the waiting verderers if Allen had not noticed his knife lying where Crane had kicked it . |
| 15 | The chronicler Roger of Wendover wrote that at the Council of Oxford in 1227 , ‘ the King caused to be cancelled and annulled all the charters of liberties of the forest , although they had already been in force in the whole realm for two years ’ : the earls who rebelled in July were said to have compelled the king to restore the charters by the threat of armed force . |
| 16 | At the beginning of the Triassic the dominant land animals were the mammal-like reptiles , the synapsids , although they had already been badly affected by dramatic events at the end of the Permian ; catastrophic events of the kind that are now known to have turned the course of Earth 's history several times . |
| 17 | Although they had already proved their skills with other publications , this book probably did most to signal the arrival of the Japanese as major quality printers in western markets . |
| 18 | Trouble is , I do n't know what he 'd do - " He broke off suddenly and turned his head away , whispering , " My father , my father , my father … " in a way so bitter and desperate that she turned to him and held him ; and although they had already stayed far longer than on previous nights , she had a sudden foreboding of events , so that she needed to love him again , now ; and a little while later , without thinking of the danger , she cried out with the joy of him : a single shriek in the night that echoed in the trees below the house and was followed by a strange , almost tangible silence . |
| 19 | The surviving cab-drivers had been traced and , although they had both decamped as soon as the trouble started , Thiercelin managed to piece together the events of the previous night with reasonable accuracy . |
| 20 | Something she said , perhaps Matey 's name , the lack of privacy for the two of them in the small house , although they had both kept their voices low , stopped him . |
| 21 | It finds that the surveyed authorities spent a ‘ great deal of time and effort ’ developing the so-called care programme approach , although they had largely failed to implement monitoring systems . |
| 22 | Although they had formerly represented the true repository of Judaism , and although they provided Christianity with the very focus of its worship , they had now been disowned by Jews and Christians alike . |
| 23 | Certainly by the last third of the nineteenth century the influences were becoming more noted although they had always been there . |
| 24 | Although they had often stayed in the country , this was the first time they had lived in it , and that makes all the difference . |
| 25 | Where it existed it was characteristic of states which , although they had long and proud cultural traditions , had suffered serious setbacks or for some reason lacked self-confidence . |
| 26 | But that 's the way the game goes and erm I think as we said ‘ as the game went on , you always had the feeling that in fact Charlton , although they had very little pressure , would sneak a goal , ’ and of course that 's exactly what they did . |
| 27 | Although they had recently lost narrowly to New Zealand , there was no question that West Indies were now the outstanding team in the world , and they were to continue that way throughout the 1980s . |
| 28 | Although they had only had a few hours , he was happy with what the squad had uncovered from newspaper cuttings and phone-calls — not that they had detected any connection with Nicola Sharpe . |
| 29 | Her son and his family regarded the instrument as the key to ‘ their ’ home , just as they regarded Haifa as ‘ their ’ town although they had never been there . |
| 30 | The old bishop stirred restlessly as the wind howled in savage gusts against the castle and , although they had never met , he would have agreed with Corbett : Satan was abroad , his evil gathering like pus in am open wound . |