Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pers pn] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Above all , she recalled the pride and happiness in Ludovico 's eyes as they met hers in the swirling crowd . |
2 | They found it in the simultaneous detonation of 454,000kg/ 1m lb of explosives in deep tunnels under the German front line . |
3 | The thin , pitiful cries were somehow unearthly when they waked him in the dark small hours . |
4 | Mm , Cathy knew what they called her in the initial stage |
5 | Sometimes the king allowed subjects to take deer for themselves in his forests ; the warden 's duty was to see to it that they had a proper writ of warranty when they came to his forest , that they did not take more than the specified number , and that they took them in the prescribed manner . |
6 | Yeah they had them in the little packs , okay ? |
7 | They had me in the holding cells at headquarters . |
8 | They carried it in the late-morning edition . |
9 | ‘ They thanked me very much and said how pleased they were to be so well looked after , then they kicked us in the appropriate part of the anatomy . ’ |