Example sentences of "they [vb past] [prep] the [noun sg] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Electrodes , that 's what they were ; she had seen them used on the baby in the next cot to Jenny in the hospital , just a few days before she had died . |
| 2 | In a silence vibrating with silent accusation the three of them filed through the gap in the croton hedge . |
| 3 | Leaving Mongolia aside , the leaders of each country are the linear descendants of ‘ Muscovite ’ Communists , sheltered in the USSR during the Second World War and brought to power in the van of the Red Army : in times of friction , it takes little to remind Eastern Europe 's leaders not only how their bread is buttered , but how they got into the larder in the first place . |
| 4 | General Lu Han had 180000 troops with him and they lived off the country in the traditional Chinese manner , looting and exporting industrial plant to China . |
| 5 | The Prussians were horrified to learn that in Pomerania and Danzig the surviving Polish nobility were reluctant to work for the new authorities and much preferred to lease out their estates to tenant farmers while they lived off the income in Warsaw . |
| 6 | Those who attempted to manage the political affairs of a county or district of burghs had not only to contribute towards any public project in their area , they were expected to be the leading subscribers , and it mattered little whether or not they agreed with the project in view . |
| 7 | Finished cloth and yarn were hung out for the approval of the merchants and their servants , the broggers , as they rode round the countryside in search of spun yarn and woven cloth . |
| 8 | Saying that ‘ the Pilgrim Fathers will always hold a unique place among the venerated saints of mankind ’ may be going too far , but their plain approach to life , the simple statement of belief they made on the voyage in the Mayflower Compact , and their peaceful settlements and good relations with the Indians among whom they settled were certainly in sharp contrast to what happened in most colonies . |
| 9 | They passed through the turnstile in the canal railings and took the gravel path to the porch of the south door , the one to which Miss Wharton had a key . |
| 10 | In response , however , Polycarp turns to the crowd in the amphitheatre and shouts out the words which the Proconsul has invited him to repeal as if they applied to the audience in the arena . |
| 11 | Regulars at the hotel share the owners indignation … they say they fought for the flag in the last war : |
| 12 | As one they plunged for the hole in the hedge . |
| 13 | They stopped for the night in a small village a day 's ride from the foot of the mountain . |
| 14 | On July 25-26 they moved into the building in Karantina , Beirut , which had formerly housed the Health Ministry but which during the civil war had become the headquarters of the LF . |
| 15 | Their offer to buy the building was accepted by the Leicestershire County Council and they moved onto the building in 1981 . |
| 16 | Of either of Pavlov 's two dogs we might say , as they salivated to the sound in question , that they heard a clarinet , middle C , a note , a sound ; and we would be correct in each case . |
| 17 | If they want to settle out of court , then it has got to be a really substantial settlement to satisfy these people because er those that have already died , er they entered into the litigation in the hope of seeing it through and making sure that , er if anything did happen to them , their wives and families would be catered for and would be er financially settled . |
| 18 | The key they found under the floor-mat in the car , or wherever . |
| 19 | Fortunately she had a chaise longue which opened and was full of rugs which they used in the garden in the summer . |
| 20 | What Marshall and Clock did was to vary certain aspects of text structure , and look at the effect in terms of how well subjects were able to write about what they recalled from the passage in question . |
| 21 | They drove to the hospital in his Mercedes . |
| 22 | Walter gripped the side with one hand and his hat with the other , as they drove up the road in a cloud of black smoke . |
| 23 | It was the highest stand for Yorkshire at Acklam Park since they came to the ground in 1956 , beating the 188 for the fifth wicket by current coach Doug Padgett and Vic Wilson against Sussex in 1960 . |
| 24 | Hardly , one would think , since such occurrences were by no means rare at this period , and in any case they came to the rescue in every possible way . |
| 25 | After an hour or so , they came across the ring in some garden rubbish . |
| 26 | They came into the city in trainloads . |
| 27 | They arrived at the airport in the morning . |
| 28 | A police constable was injured as bottles and other missiles were thrown at 300 British National Party supporters as they arrived for the rally in York Hall , Bethnal Green . |
| 29 | When they emerged from their slumbers at about five o'clock in the afternoon , they repaired to the tea-house in the main street , calling for tea and seishas , or water-pipes . |
| 30 | I can still hear the clatter of coins as they rained on the stage in a steady downpour of acclaim , a habit derived from the days of the gold rush . |