Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb past] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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1 | The only whites in the area were winos and dealers , and they mostly ended up in the river . |
2 | The curators of the grand US museums like the Metropolitan look down their noses at these shows , but the citizens of Memphis are pleased as can be , because before WONDERS they just felt out in the boondocks . |
3 | Well , they always moved off in the end , though they often stayed a while , as this one did , whistling through their teeth , like standup comics about to risk another joke . |
4 | They simply wandered around in the dark , placing their bombs on the parked aircraft until they ran out of them . |
5 | It looked like a piece of Above technology — something they never saw out in the fields — but he would not have liked to have guessed just what . |
6 | Before the worst was over and the pound began to depreciate again , some twenty per cent of them had gone for ever , and a further ten per cent were so weakened that they too shut down in the next two years . |
7 | They subsequently pulled back in the face of a strong warning on April 14 from France , the United Kingdom and the USA . |