Example sentences of "[noun sg] they [be] [verb] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During experiment they were placed in modified Bollman type cages to maintain the minimum restraint necessary . |
| 2 | Two people were taken to hospital with cuts and facial bruises after the car they were travelling in smashed into a road sign on the A1 western bypass at Lobley Hill , Gateshead , yesterday . |
| 3 | Fifty three women were on a WI outing to Denman College at Abingdon in Oxfordshire when the coach they were travelling in crashed into the back of a truck . |
| 4 | At the moment they are swamped in other considerations and their very existence is often denied . |
| 5 | Before their confinements some women go to the trouble of having the room they are to lie in fumigated . |
| 6 | At night they were locked in one of the cells of the former monastery . |
| 7 | ‘ If we afforded them the respect they deserve the respect they are given in other European countries then the standard of service we would get would be a lot higher , ’ says the 55-year-old Swiss-trained baker . |
| 8 | In the early hours of yesterday morning they were beaten in four sets by Patrick McEnroe and Jim Grabb , and then some 13 hours later they fell 6-3 , 7-6 , 7-6 to the Australians Darren Cahill and Mark Kratzman , who as a result qualified for the semi-finals . |
| 9 | In the early hours of yesterday morning they were beaten in four sets by Patrick McEnroe and Jim Grabb , and then some 13 hours later they fell 6-3 , 7-6 , 7-6 to the Australians Darren Cahill and Mark Kratzman , who as a result qualified for the semi-finals . |
| 10 | Ethnomethodology depicts conversation as discourse constructed and negotiated between the participants , following pre-established patterns , and marking the direction they are taking in particular ways : with pauses , laughter , intonations , filler words , and established formulae . |
| 11 | After a brief show trial they were put in solitary confinement in appalling conditions until March this year . |
| 12 | Both sides have struggled in the league this year and Haslemere were grateful for the time and space they were allowed in this match . |
| 13 | The subject they 're tackling in this report is one that makes the blood run cold in most people 's veins … including mine . |
| 14 | When patients come to hospital they are living in close contact with more people than usual . |
| 15 | The island has the greatest concentration of seabirds in the north-west and at nesting time they are numbered in tens of thousands in a variety of species — guillemot , razorbill , kittiwake , fulmar , puffin , herring gull and shag — creating a deafening cacophony of noise . |
| 16 | By the time they were interviewed in late 1982 and early 1983 ( some three years after being made redundant ) , they were divided almost equally between the economically active and inactive — 51 per cent and 49 per cent respectively — according to the standard definition of such activity . |
| 17 | By then Cameron 's mind was rousing itself from shock , there were many things he wanted to say to James , but the moment they stepped down under the massive archway of the prison they were hustled in opposite directions . |
| 18 | Apparently the private jet they were travelling in crashed into the side of a mountain in thick fog . ’ |
| 19 | At one stage they were seen in hot pursuit of a fully loaded M&B beer lorry ! ! |