Example sentences of "they [vb past] in the [det] [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 | They failed in the former endeavour but succeeded in the latter . |
| 4 | They lived in the same apartment block and often dined together , creating unfounded rumours that they were having an affair . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | they came as the same they came in the same colour mu thing round them we in the red letters saying what they are . |
| 7 | Mosasaurs , when not head-butting each other , were deep-diving sea hunters , and evidence of avascular necrosis in their bone structure hinted that they suffered in the same way as did human divers — they had frequent spells of the ‘ bends ’ . |
| 8 | Herbert Tempest asked readers for information on George Whitbread , a man he lost touch with 40 years ago after they served in the same RAF squadron . |
| 9 | Even when they worked in the same industry they were often employed in quite different processes : in copper mining for example at the surface not underground , and were separately waged . |
| 10 | They worked in the same office , they ate their lunch together , they went down the Lane on Sundays and the Roman Road on Fridays . |
| 11 | Indeed , one scientist has been so misled by this grammatical similarity as to say that , given appropriate nerve graftings , two people could feel the same pain just as , if they looked in the same direction , they could see the same table . |
| 12 | The couple worked at the same tasks as their staff , they dressed in the same way , educated their children at the same schools and ate in the same canteen . |
| 13 | They won in the same time as that recorded by Oxford half an hour later despite being warned three times for their steering . |
| 14 | Although , as we have seen , they emerged in the latter half of the fifteenth century it was under the Tudors that they reached a peak of development . |
| 15 | He assured her that he was unhappily married , never had sex with his wife though they slept in the same bed , and that they often thought of divorce . |
| 16 | They slept in the same bedroom as me because we were er limited to bedroom space but we had girls because we were doing such a lot of entertaining , there was a lot of work . |
| 17 | They slept in the same room as he did . |
| 18 | Moran gave them a pound , Rose took a red ten-shilling note from her handbag and they left in the same whirl as they had entered , dancing and singing all the way out to the lorry . |