Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb past] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The health service residents were originally in the now closed St John 's Hospital where they lived in wards with up to twenty people . |
| 2 | The team was put through a daily fitness programme , starting with a 40 minute run before breakfast and finishing at the nearby police gym where they took in circuit and weight training before going on another one-and-a half mile run . |
| 3 | Eight Green deputies were elected in eastern Germany , where they campaigned in alliance with the civil rights group , Bundnis 90 . |
| 4 | The impression of the wood grain is often preserved on the metal components where they came into contact . |
| 5 | The Blackmen made their way down Lower Ormeau to the city centre , where they connected with buses to take them to Last Saturday marches elsewhere in the province . |
| 6 | Narrow canals suffered most from rail competition ; where they ran through towns there was often little physical space for expansion . |
| 7 | The mood of the meeting was adversely affected by President Roh Tae Woo 's forthcoming trip to the Soviet Union [ see p. 37918 ] , and by a series of confrontations involving journalists in the Northern delegation who made unauthorized visits to several of Seoul 's universities where they met with student radicals . |
| 8 | Each year Zuwaya moved between the northern coastal strip of semi-desert ( where they arrived in spring for the early pasture ) and the oases of the central Sahara . |
| 9 | Robert was far more interested in finding out where they stood on footwear , but this was clearly not an area that interested Ali . |
| 10 | After London Transport took over they were sold where they stood to Cohens for scrap on 9 May 1934 . |
| 11 | The whole service was provided from Sutton depôt and the trams were broken up where they stood in Penge depôt . |
| 12 | For example , the members of the Rowdies group were well aware of their positions , and where they stood in relation to one another was clearly defined . |
| 13 | From my own experience and that of others , I knew that books about miscarriages of justice were always published in a kind of limbo where they remained for months if not years , totally ignored by those authorities whose business it was to evaluate and act on them . |
| 14 | Under cover of the rugby-players , who surrounded them so that they were invisible to the sentries , two officers managed to bury themselves underground , where they remained until darkness : they then came to the surface and made their escape . |
| 15 | About 70 protesters , including the Glasgow Militant councillor , Tommy Sheridan , leader of the Scottish Anti Poll Tax Federation , began congregating at 8:00am at Mr Smeddon 's council house , where they remained until nightfall . |
| 16 | It was once owned by a cotton baron from Lancashire ; today it belongs to Brian and Ann who left Australia ( where they worked as wool buyers ) to fulfil their long-time ambition of opening their own hotel . |
| 17 | Their next port of call after their swim was nearby Lefkada where they stopped for lunch . |
| 18 | After service they strolled down to the waterside , where they talked about stockings and the weaving of plaid ; ‘ What particular parts of commerce are chiefly exercised by the merchants of Aberdeen , I have not inquired , ’ wrote Johnson . |
| 19 | Oatcakes and and and it was porridge or they got at dinner time . |
| 20 | said to me about Pauline 's kids her three lads , not the baby like the two lads she said , oh she said er they came to play one night , or they came for tea or something and she goes to work at night you know , she said Paul was looking after them and she said , he said you could hear all this banging up and down the stairs , he said , bloody hell he said they were going mad , and I thought that 's what Tom and Hannah do when they come here , I said your two bang up and down like bloody anything I said that 's normal , you know for kids . |
| 21 | Statues were either images of deities , especially the cult-statue within a temple ; or dedications , that is gifts to the gods , set up in the temple or more often outside it in the temenos ; or they stood on graves . |
| 22 | In Sweden the Social Democrats were ousted from power in 1976 after forty-five years in office by an alliance of ‘ bourgeois ’ parties , although they returned to office in 1982 . |
| 23 | The British penchant for shooting themselves in the foot emerged again when officials decided that professionals who resided and worked outside Britain were ineligible to play , although they qualified by birth . |
| 24 | In the 1830s and 40s alternative ideas such as those of Owen for the substitution of co-operation for individualistic competition lost the struggle for ideological hegemony to ideas of liberal laissez-faire , although they survived among groups of radical working people and among some philanthropists . |
| 25 | 114 ) ; when a member of the court was a shareholder of the brewery company which owned the premises in question : R. V. Gee ( 1901 ) 17 T.L.R. 374 ; when three of the members of a compensation tribunal which refused the renewal of a licence had , along with their fellow justices , instructed a solicitor to oppose the renewal before the tribunal : Frome United Breweries v. Bath JJ. [ 1926 ] A.C. 586 ; when three members of the committee which granted and confirmed a licence had been shareholders and directors of the company on whose behalf the licence was applied for , although they resigned as directors and sold their shares before taking part in the proceedings : R. v. Hain ( 1896 ) 12 T.L.R. 323 . |
| 26 | But Jim says his firm had to settle for less than they expected over work on the Minister 's home in Putney , south-west London . |
| 27 | They deserve better than they got on April 9 , 1992 . ’ |
| 28 | To cite O'Neill again , ‘ Some House members said they saw more of ( Reagan ) during his first four months in office than they saw of Jimmy Carter during his entire four years … . |
| 29 | ‘ Specialists ’ might have to enjoy even better conditions of life under socialism than they had under capitalism if they were to be well motivated . |
| 30 | Cos they had different methods of doing the , digging the coal out , than they h than they had in Britain . |