Example sentences of "[subord] they [vb past] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said , ‘ Remember the peasant dance where they came out in the long , hooped skirts and you ca n't see their feet ? |
| 2 | All-night parties , Nina dancing in the nude , Modi stumbling into the sketching class very drunk , the weekly visits to the Gaieté Montparnasse , a small , bawdy music-hall where they sat up in the gallery , all paint a happy-go-lucky picture . |
| 3 | I thought to myself that , however far they had wandered , if they ended up in the body of Leonard Arthur Pike they must be really desperate . |
| 4 | Accommodation and compromise have not characterized the attitudes and actions of the young university-educated activists of the DUP of recent years because they grew up in the zero-sum game , and even if they forgot its rules long enough to consider shifting the DUP 's aims , there is no reason to suppose that the voters would support them in their deviation . |
| 5 | She lived on the fifth floor of a pre-war block , and when they went up in the lift she casually passed him her handbag and said , Hold this , and started to take her clothes off . |
| 6 | Like when they went out in the garden and they put |
| 7 | When they came round in the valley , they were entertained with every delightful variant of wine , women and song promised in the holy scriptures to those who would go to Paradise . |
| 8 | Fortunately the pair were off to different events when they stepped out in the identical £420 jackets . |
| 9 | Er we did n't always know what was going on but erm , we did catch the planes when they took off in the morning and we watched them come home in the afternoons and we got some ideas sometimes when things had n't gone quite right and I 'm sure we did share with you in your grief . |
| 10 | Despite not enjoying the learning process , as such ( ‘ I hate learning languages ’ ) , she loved ‘ the feel and the sound of the words as they rolled around in the mouth . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ I had a very interesting chat with Nightingale , ’ Rachel said softly as they shot along in the white Mercedes . |
| 12 | ‘ He 's a lovely little ride , that one , ’ Dennis called out to her as they rode along in the string . |
| 13 | ‘ A good man , that , ’ he said , guiltily , to Catherine as they went down in the lift . |
| 14 | And now there were the two black and white kittens found abandoned on the grass verge of the coast road as they came back in the van from Ipswich . |
| 15 | They would drink that in some of these pubs and , of course , as soon as they got out in the fresh air , it hit them and they were away . |
| 16 | The final words were pronounced in ringing tones as they arrived back in the hall , where Officer Hassan and Dieter were just emerging from the salon . |
| 17 | Thank goodness for sheep , thought the three little piggies as they trotted along in the sunshine . |
| 18 | As soon as they pulled up in the courtyard of Broom House , Joanna jumped out and said jubilantly , ‘ Mr Jarvis has been putting me through my paces with regard to pigs . |
| 19 | ‘ Because one thing 's for certain , Charlie Trumper , ’ she told him as they sat down in the little room at the back of Salmon 's to check the monthly accounts , ‘ you do n't know the first thing about butchery . |
| 20 | After all , there would be plenty of time , as they settled down in the warren , to show these strangers that they were as good as themselves , without risking trouble by putting on airs at the start . |
| 21 | ‘ Now we 'll talk , ’ Roman said later as they settled back in the chairs . |
| 22 | ‘ The poor old souls like to know what one 's doing , ’ he explained to Jannie , as they jerked along in the traffic stream between aunt and aunt . |