Example sentences of "they [vb past] in the [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without turning round he said in a harsh voice : ‘ If you want to know about Inez , Mr Wycliffe , you must ask Sara , the two of them lived in the same house for nearly twelve years . |
| 2 | There are at least ten or a dozen different principal textures , but it would be unusual to find a large number of them used in the same piece . |
| 3 | Two of them came in the first half as Bolton tore Watford to shreds . |
| 4 | Two of them came in the third round . |
| 5 | The NUWM was at the centre of most of the violent clashes with the police in the early 1930s , though this tactic was later changed to the more peaceful and probably more effective " hunger march " which took the unemployed through the countryside and down to London rather than leaving them isolated in the Distressed Areas . |
| 6 | When Maggie returned she found them locked in the strained silence . |
| 7 | Some 15 million of them served in the armed forces , over 11 million going overseas ; and it is estimated that another 15 million moved from their homes , mainly in the smaller towns and the rural areas , to the booming sites of the war industries , such as those in California . |
| 8 | They failed in the former endeavour but succeeded in the latter . |
| 9 | They met in the Egyptian wing , at the same place each time , near a fragment of papyrus which was labelled , The Opening of the Mouth Ceremony . |
| 10 | One day , they met in the second class compartment of a train — unemployed but taking the bad days as cheerfully as the good , knowing that tomorrow probably would find them enjoying the material rewards of advertising yet again . |
| 11 | And one of the reasons they all became interested at the same time was that a lot of them knew each other , and so one of the things I 've been looking at is the correspondence between Americans and British people , and the fact that they travelled and kept diaries of who they met in the other country , and they all swapped ideas on how to deal with this particular level of poverty . |
| 12 | Within a couple of days they had paired off with English boys whom they met in the Spanish bars . |
| 13 | The only rough treatment they got in the first half , worked in their favour , as Jim Magilton was hauled down , but up he bounced to hit home the penalty . |
| 14 | They lived in the tiny village of Croud Cantle , nestling in the heart of the Hampshire Downs . |
| 15 | I used to take them home on quite a number of occasions if I 'd known that they lived in the immediate vicinity . |
| 16 | They lived in the Turkish quarter and in outward appearance resembled the Turks , although their religious and cultural life was very different from that of their neighbours . |
| 17 | Rauschning , though he hardly seems to have understood , could complain about the Gauleiter 's lifestyle precisely because they lived in the Free City . |
| 18 | They lived in the same apartment block and often dined together , creating unfounded rumours that they were having an affair . |
| 19 | Samuel was the more prolific pamphleteer , but according to Edwards , mother and son collaborated closely , ‘ the one inditing and the other writing ’ , and they lived in the same house at least until the end of 1652 . |
| 20 | There was a Mr and Mrs , Stephen was and there was a Mr and Mrs , the caretakers , and they lived in the third floor of a flat there . |
| 21 | Even in the eighteenth century , when interiors ( and people ) were at every social level a great deal dirtier than they became in the Victorian period , Defoe 's Moll Flanders can forgive a multitude of sins , where everything is ‘ so handsome and so clean ’ . |
| 22 | England 's performance confirmed the impressions they made in the second half of their 1-1 draw with Italy at Brighton last month . |
| 23 | The development plans which they produced in the first decade of independence were for the most part competent , well thought out and well presented . |
| 24 | They wintered in the lush lowlands of canyons on the Grande Ronde and Imnaha valleys , wandering up Joseph Creek in the spring to harvest kouse on the higher meadows . |
| 25 | By removing the incentive to become or to stay competitive , countries risk losing in the longer term the benefits they sought in the first place . |
| 26 | They stopped in the next village two miles away . |
| 27 | They stopped in the flower-bordered road , and Miguelito looked down at her . |
| 28 | So many Britons whose lives were little more than hard unremitting toil would have used the licence of the festival to make fun of these imagined orgies , especially if they occurred in the great houses . |
| 29 | It was a beautiful sunny Queensland day and there in the sunshine they rejoiced in the shared memories . |
| 30 | It summoned its forces around it now and they played in the dying fires , kicked through the wood ash , spiralled into the heavens on the vortices of smoke ; danced with the dancing boy . |