Example sentences of "in [noun prp] [conj] they [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scottish police found them in a women 's refuge in Inverness but they disappeared again and may now be in London a city Mrs Ivory knows and likes . |
| 2 | ‘ Then it 's a good job I spent time with the Soviet Embassy in Stockholm before they sent me to Washington . |
| 3 | In World War II , when German bombing destroyed the Swire head office in the City , Swire moved his entire staff to his mother 's house in Harlow and they commuted to London together . |
| 4 | He and his wife , Kathy , moved from a large thatched house in Berkshire when they bought the property eight years ago . |
| 5 | He told the jury that the first raid occurred on April 3 at Sattherthwaite 's confectioners in Crosby when they threatened two women employees with a screwdriver and demanded cash . |
| 6 | Mr Globe said the first raid was at Satterthwaite 's confectioners in Crosby when they threatened two women with a screwdriver and stole £513 . |
| 7 | They came home , packed their bags , left Wales for good and set up in Brussels until they found a new house . |
| 8 | It was in 1863 at the farmhouse at Camerone in Mexico that they had fought their most spectacular action . |
| 9 | Love blossomed on a summer holiday in Morecambe and they decided to tie the knot . |
| 10 | Chris Morris told me that the other group had got caught in Basra because they had lost touch with reality briefly and got careless . ’ |
| 11 | But , to be fair , the McLaren directors had other matters on their mind in Portugal as they moped Senna 's fevered brow and cursed Mansell 's unwelcome intrusion into a family affair . |
| 12 | Earlier this week we joined them in Hungary as they rehearsed their display for the Fairford show . |
| 13 | I looked for one of those sandwich box things for Gerald in Sainsburys and they had n't got one . |
| 14 | Never conventional homeowners , the Stewarts , from the West Coast of Scotland , lived in an 18th-century house in Spitalfields when they took their textile business to London . |
| 15 | A total of seven points out of eight were lost to the Tayside club last season and Aberdeen 's only point from United this term came at Tannadice in December after they had held , and then surrendered , a two-goal lead . |
| 16 | You only have to look and see what happened in Germany when Beckenbauer retired , in Brazil when they lost Pele and Holland when they no longer had Cruyff . |
| 17 | Wilson knew that some visiting Americans had let it be widely known in Florence that they considered Mrs Browning little more than a ghost and though she had laughed such gossip to scorn she now saw there was perhaps real cause for alarm . |
| 18 | You see my brother Joe is wrong , he should have , he 's a workaholic , and they 're doing sixteen hours a day and they 're working , can you imagine , and I mean my youngest brother Brad who 's working with him said er Joe do n't stop , a week , no a fortnight la , a fortnight last Sunday they had to put a not air conditioning yeah it is air conditioning unit in Smith 's in Staines and they had to whatever happens they had to get it working for the next day , it 's got to be in and working and they worked all day , my brother , my eldest brother Derek weld it for nine hours non stop , to the point where Brad our , my younger brother and Joe had |
| 19 | Belgium , Luxembourg and the Netherlands announced in May that they had joined the 1987 Missile Technology Control Regime ( MTCR ) which committed industrialized countries to restricting missile proliferation in the developing world . |
| 20 | On March 9 the Polish Foreign Ministry protested to the Lithuanian government about a decision to ban by April 1 all textbooks printed in foreign countries , which in particular affected Polish schools in Lithuania as they had been using history books printed in Poland . |
| 21 | RESIDENTS are paying the new council tax quicker in Warrington than they paid poll tax . |
| 22 | And in July 1986 , 28 women were teargassed in their communal cell in Pollsmoor when they demanded to know why they were being held . |
| 23 | Pedrosa was convinced that this average track runner could be transformed into a top marathoner. he eventually persuaded the authorities to allow her to run the 1982 European Championships marathon in Athens but they insisted she must run the 3000m as well . |
| 24 | Cities such as Glasgow and Edinburgh were placed in the same sort of category as non-metropolitan districts in England although they had populations larger than the more rural regions and all the island councils . |
| 25 | As soon as all these lighting restrictions came in , Daddy said he was n't going to stay in England and they pissed off , ’ Felicity 's lapses into strong language , which were meant to make her sound cool , only made her sound immature . |
| 26 | ‘ I was in Admin and they said Rosie was ill . ’ |
| 27 | concrete stairs and , George nearly killed himself on them one morning , but er , and we tried everything to get out of there you know , no one would exchange a two bedroom maisonette for a house and of course I longed for a garden , but , and er George got a job in Hatfield and they offered this three bedroom house The Commission for The New Town , rent was cheaper than here , so we moved over there , but er , as I say we were only there two , three years and we came back again , we were over here , we used to come over here three times a week , when we lived there did n't we ? |
| 28 | Many anecdotes of this kind were repeated in Montparnasse and they found their way to the Zborowskis , who were struggling themselves . |
| 29 | So he set off one day with Moira , as she spoke French , and they stayed in Geneva until they had organized the shop . |
| 30 | All were BMS missionaries in Zaire until they had to leave that country . |