Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv prt] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They contributed because on the one hand , they were asked and understood that what they had to say was important , and also because too many of them grew up in a world without such books . |
| 2 | Morag and Mary were two such women and we never ceased to wonder at the amount of work they got through in a day . |
| 3 | Round and round , they rode on in a frenzy , Boadicea just smiled and drank wine |
| 4 | For half an hour they followed the telltale red blotches until finally they petered out in a glade surrounded by dense thickets of thorn and bamboo . |
| 5 | For a time they trudged on in a silence punctuated by occasional reminiscences of the film . |
| 6 | Rats-Tail stopped the group ten feet away and they fanned out in a semi-circle . |
| 7 | At issue is whether a foreign country can identify and successfully demand the repatriation of antiquities that it admits it did not even know existed until they turned up in a museum 's collection . |
| 8 | They tied up in a backwater under a sky black as old blood , and walked along a pontoon to the apron of an enormous dock . |
| 9 | Of course you can well I knew of a girl who married I would n't say she 'd married well when she started out but her husband was enterprising e eventually got himself quite a good job at the at people who print the bank notes so so that they they started off in a prefab and they ended up with a new four bedroom bungalow with central heating at Athorpe Roding . |
| 10 | The next day they lay up in a cave and managed to distil a small quantity of water which tasted vile . |
| 11 | Now Sid and Ethel demonstrated a samba , doing scissor-cutting steps backwards and forwards , then with hands on hips somehow entwined , and heads looking behind them , they went round in a circle . |
| 12 | They went up in a paternoster lift which cranked regularly past its otherwise vacant portals . |
| 13 | They went out in a blaze of glory . |
| 14 | He collided with the Guardsmen , and they went down in a tangle . |
| 15 | They ran about in a panic , those that could climb taking to the rigging , those that could swim going over the side . |
| 16 | As they searched , they wrote down in a notebook details of all the things they found . |
| 17 | They stood round in a ring long after she 'd come to rest , after her legs had stopped wagging , after her fingers had stopped tugging . |
| 18 | They missed out in a play-off drama last season despite the arrival of new owner Lionel Pickering who has spent £9million on buying and rebuilding the club . |