Example sentences of "they [verb] [vb pp] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As we shall find , they became embroiled in the nationalist struggle . |
| 2 | As thousands of troops and vehicles , many loaded with looted goods , struggled north on the main road to Basra , they became caught in a congested and disorganized column many kilometres in length , and were subjected to hours of ruthless attack from the air with cluster bombs and , possibly , incendiary weapons . |
| 3 | In the end Leeds could have had 4–5 … if they 'd scored in the first half it could have been 10 ! ! |
| 4 | But the real the real glorious irony I think that cheers up erm psephologists like me , political analysists , is that in those May elections the Conservatives did dramatically well compared to what they 'd done in the general election . |
| 5 | If only they 'd stayed in the little home on the train . |
| 6 | Our team lost the game by 125 runs , but they reckoned overall it was the most enjoyable day 's cricket they 'd had in a long time . |
| 7 | Then they become enmeshed in a desperate struggle about who is to be the baby . |
| 8 | As the price of computers decreases and as they become incorporated in a wide range of domestic goods , from cookers to calculators , the ordinary consumer is becoming a major purchaser of electronic gadgetry . |
| 9 | Many dolphins drown as the net is pulled and tightened towards the side of the seiner , and they become trapped in the closing mesh . |
| 10 | time and time again they sit on the sidelines saying this is what we think do n't talk to us about it do n't debate it , do n't ask us to think about it , take it or leave it , if you do n't give us what we want we 'll sit back and moan and sulk and they 've played , I think that 's a very irresponsible line they 've played in the five years I 've been on this council and I hope that er again the issue on the next item on the agenda represents a change of heart on their behalf . |
| 11 | This is what we look at in terms of er target of erm the er wallets we 're going to print and that is determined , not quite sure what the measurement is for estate agent it 's something to er to do combination of the number of peop er number of mailings they 've done in the last er twelve months and also the number of houses they have on their their books . |
| 12 | It 's a domestic policy , hands off right and this was one of the arguments one of those potent arguments that they 've used in the last forty years right but it 's incredibly naive because any domestic policy will have an international dimension I remember the about European Community right but it was n't for the operation of the common agricultural policy countries in the European Community would be net importers of agricultural goods as we were ten years ago bec because er of protectionism we 've now increased our self sufficiency to the point where were a net exporter of agricultural goods what implications has th does that have for international trade ? |
| 13 | But it has such appeal that the casinos are reporting more feverish betting activity than they 've known in a long time . |
| 14 | where you , you get a scale response to them and we can do stats on but equally , if you get people to describe their most recent dream or describe their most erm , you know , compelling dream or , you know , a good one that they 've had in the last year or something like that , you may want to try and get that on tape or something like that erm if possible , yeah . |
| 15 | Throughout the 1930s Hollywood was to make films condemning various abuses and malpractices in the American system and there were always to be films which clung to the conventions of the city film as they had emerged in the early part of the decade . |
| 16 | Springfield and Fenton pulled back the flaps of the cut they had made in the chain-link fence , allowing Grant and Larsen to duck through into hostile territory . |
| 17 | By the mid-1920s they no longer had the harsh appearance that they had developed in the immediate pre-war years … |
| 18 | They had suffered in the Civil War from requisitioning by Red , White , and Green armies , and to some extent from the Bolshevik-inspired kombedy ( committees of poor peasants ) . |
| 19 | Unlike the increases of the early 1930s , this jump was caused by the revival of stealing networks , mainly in those areas where they had prevailed in the nineteenth century . |
| 20 | Railways , Spearman went on , had the power to break local strikes , as they had done in a recent coal strike in the United States , and the operating officers and freight-yard superintendents took on a military-style power . |
| 21 | The central event of the former 's pontificate can hardly fail to be seen as Humanae Vitae in 1968 , central because its publication marked a watershed separating the first years of enthusiasm , of an optimistic post-conciliar implementation in which Rome and leading Catholic theologians were still working more or less hand in hand ( as they had done in the latter years of the Council ) from the far more contestatory and unsure later period . |
| 22 | I noticed that when particularly struck by a drawing , his features would assume the same look of wide-eyed amazement that they had done in the latter rôle when Bottom wakes from his dream and begins the speech , ‘ I have had a most rare vision … ’ |
| 23 | I noticed that when particularly struck by a drawing , his features would assume the same look of wide-eyed amazement that they had done in the latter rôle when Bottom wakes from his dream and begins the speech , ‘ I have had a most rare vision … ’ . |
| 24 | The electrical power workers , however , did not respond in the forthright way they had done in the general strike of May 1974 . |
| 25 | As they had done in the 1930s , Soviet organisations approached state-owned Latin American oil companies . |
| 26 | He confessed that everyone trusted him now , as they had done in the old days . |
| 27 | The London merchants of this period do not , however , represent a closely connected group of families as they had done in an earlier age : the civic upper class was constantly being renewed , either as families died out , or as successful men moved out from the city to the country . |
| 28 | In the spring parliament of 1340 the commons offered a grant of tax subject to conditions which now went much further than the concessions they had sought in the previous year and which were reminiscent of the concerns of the Ordainers in 1310–11 . |
| 29 | As things turned out it was the Americans who made the greatest contribution , drawing heavily on the practice they had adopted in the last few years to incorporate the expertise available from industry and the unions into their CAB ( as they then were ) investigations . |
| 30 | They had parted in a friendly enough way , promising to see each other from time to time , but Jenna very much doubted if it would ever happen . |