Example sentences of "they had [verb] in a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Meredith , trying to use her bump of direction thought they had gone in a circle and as far as she could tell through teeming rain and darkness , were in the middle of the open moor or common . |
| 2 | Before you could say Maradona , Boss Man had won and they had gone in a puff of Deep Heat vapour . |
| 3 | They had met in a railway carriage in the third year of the war . |
| 4 | From about 1909 he was a friend of ( Sir ) John Beazley [ q.v. ] , with whom he once combined to buy a Sienese picture they had discovered in a dealer 's ; and he often travelled in Italy to look at pictures , sometimes in the company of his friend Scholfield . |
| 5 | This suggests that the boundaries of acceptable behaviour lie beyond mere unreasonableness , that the directors would have been liable only if on no tenable view of the facts could their actions have benefited the company : in other words , if they had behaved in a way that was perverse . |
| 6 | Pat Hanson , who led the successful Hall Garth team Vanessa Conning , Gail Hall , Mark Jackson , Tom Newbould and Keith Webber said they had put in a lot of hard work . |
| 7 | England defender Pallister was then handed the responsibility of keeping United in continental competition but , just as they had failed in a penalty shoot-out against Videoton in the Cup Winners ' Cup in 1985 , so they were again to be engulfed in misery . |