Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Somebody was telling me the Rocky was on R5 the other week & said that when he was with Arsenal & they won the league at Liverpool in the last few minutes , Arsenal were 13 ( ? ) points clear at the new year but still had to come from behind to overtake Liverpool ! ! ! |
| 2 | In a report to a plenary meeting of Tsektran in June , he said that trains should stop acting like droshkys , carrying people and goods where they wished for little or no pay . |
| 3 | In the houses — never a window opened — in the cars , in the gruesome , echoing hypermarkets set in the middle of nowhere ( where they wished you a ‘ nice day ’ at 10 pm ) . |
| 4 | As there were no intermediate stations passengers joined and alighted where they wished . |
| 5 | It was self-service , and guests carried their food on little plastic trays to mucky tables , where they ate to the accompaniment of strident pop music . |
| 6 | The successful 20 progressed to the International Open , where they competed with foreign challengers for places in the Grand Prix . |
| 7 | Where they roughed out the areas they could cover , and possible sources of material . |
| 8 | After his inclusion in the side the Town rose from seventeenth place to third , where they finished the season , their highest position yet . |
| 9 | Alison accompanied him to the door , where they paused . |
| 10 | So it was that the Cohens ' life was very largely circumscribed by the Montreal riding , which had as its most prestigious centre Westmount , where they lived . |
| 11 | They won their obscenity trial but poverty drove them to a caravan beside a Methodist chapel where they lived off skips , meeting other swinging exiles and learning how much people waste . |
| 12 | I used to say they got their pay packets from me but their status from the activities in the crofting villages where they lived . |
| 13 | Now , although no bombs ever fell in the country district where they lived , from time to time the air raid warning sirens would sound and Sylvia 's mother would take her baby and make her way to the shelter at the bottom of the garden , remaining there until she heard the ‘ all-clear ’ . |
| 14 | In the land-train carburettor factory where they lived along with some ninety tech kin , an electrocandle flickered before a precious polychrome ikon in every dwelling cubicle along the gallery that overhung the greasy , acrid furniture of lathes and drills and grinders and the carpeting of swarf like dirty silver snow . |
| 15 | Before he became Home Secretary Morrison had argued that the best way for Jews to prevent anti-semitism was to ensure that they could not be blamed for social injustices in areas where they lived . |
| 16 | Redman and his wife Joan ( died 1531 ) were considerable benefactors to the town of Brentford , Middlesex , where they lived ; damaged brasses in Brentford church commemorate them . |
| 17 | In 1851 George Sumner was appointed rector of Old Alresford , Hampshire , where they lived for thirty-four years , and where their son , ( George ) Heywood ( Maunoir ) [ q.v. ] , artist and archaeologist , was born . |
| 18 | The two , who were not named , had been under surveillance since 1988 in the town of Umea , on the east coast , where they lived . |
| 19 | Summarizing the argument , let me say that there are good reasons , based on sociobiological insights into hunting , which lead me to suppose that the cooperation , altruism and mutuality demanded by social-hunting techniques in 4-foot high hominids lacking all modern hunting technology meant that only the sons were likely at first to start to exploit the immense reserves of game which our gelada-like ancestors saw all around them on the savanna grasslands where they lived . |
| 20 | The health service residents were originally in the now closed St John 's Hospital where they lived in wards with up to twenty people . |
| 21 | The boy was tied with a rope by his feet , hauled over a beam in a barn at the North Wales farm where they lived , then beaten , it was claimed at Mold Crown Court . |
| 22 | The boys , now aged 15 and 16 , had admitted culpably and recklessly contaminating toast and other foodstuffs in the kitchen of the Edinburgh children 's home where they lived , to the danger of staff and other children , on 27 May . |
| 23 | The US duo arrived in Spain on a private jet from North Carolina , where they played in the US Tour Championship on Sunday , and both have to be back in the States next Monday . |
| 24 | Mozart met Thomas , another musical prodigy , in Florence in 1770 , where they played violin duets together and engaged in friendly rivalry . |
| 25 | For thousands of years the marmots had lived on the banks of the lake in Central Asia where they played host to a flea called xenopsylla cheopsis and a tiny bacillus , or disease , called pasteurella pestis , with no dramatic consequences to any of them , and not the slightest impact on the rest of the world . |
| 26 | He went very willingly to watch Everton Football Club , and to the Parish Club where they played billiards and practised with dumbbells and a punchball , and to greyhound racing . |
| 27 | Find out why men and women became pirates , where they operated and how they met their end . |
| 28 | The famine of 1919–21 forced industrial workers back to the countryside , where they proceeded to apply their skills , encouraged by the local peasantry , thwarted by the lack of industrial consumer goods from the towns . |
| 29 | ‘ ( 1 ) strict rules of evidence were inherently inappropriate in a court concerned to decide whether there were substantial grounds for believing something , such as a court considering an application under the Bail Act 1976 ; ( 2 ) when considering an opposed application for bail justices were bound to investigate an alleged change of circumstance but where they erred by refusing so to do their subsequent order was not rendered void , although a court with appropriate jurisdiction could interfere to set it aside . |
| 30 | With the help of the dogs , who leapt silently through the snow , George managed to usher them to a barn , where they massed on the sheltered side . |