Example sentences of "they [verb] in [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They failed in the former endeavour but succeeded in the latter . |
| 2 | The flaps stood up on either side of her ankle , and were laced together where they met in a stiff ridge over her foot . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They met in an undistinguished office block just off the Euston Road , two floors ofwhich were used as secure neutral territory for committees and meetings between Government depart-ments who would lose face by visiting the other fellow 's wigwam . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Although the feet do not stretch and point in the way we still care about in the West , the dancers do not just move from position to position ; they dance in a long poem of fluently musical movement that is classical ballet 's chief claim to fame . |
| 9 | The adult worms , bright red in colour and up to 2.5 cm in length , are easily recognised at necropsy where they predominate in the horny lining of the gizzard . |
| 10 | They lived in a double-decker apartment in Adelphi Terrace that had been Charlotte 's home before her marriage . |
| 11 | In his opinion , they would make peace on almost any terms , they were shot through with cowardice , they lived in a perpetual funk . |
| 12 | They could never forget , he told his audience in his 70th anniversary speech later in the year , that they lived in a multinational state . |
| 13 | ' However eager sceptical Victorians might be to replace the superstitious world of their forefathers with a structure that seemed to them more solid and more rational , the alternative , namely that they lived in a meaningless world of chance , was repellent to many of them . |
| 14 | For many disabled people , unwanted dependence on others would disappear overnight if they lived in a physical environment which did not handicap them . |
| 15 | They lived in a depressing house in Finchley . |
| 16 | They lived in the tiny village of Croud Cantle , nestling in the heart of the Hampshire Downs . |
| 17 | I used to take them home on quite a number of occasions if I 'd known that they lived in the immediate vicinity . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Rauschning , though he hardly seems to have understood , could complain about the Gauleiter 's lifestyle precisely because they lived in the Free City . |
| 20 | They lived in the same apartment block and often dined together , creating unfounded rumours that they were having an affair . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Often they lived in an impersonal tower block some distance from their immediate relatives . |
| 24 | These doubts are not examined for academic purposes , nor are they treated in a critical way . |
| 25 | 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 ’ . |
| 26 | England 's performance confirmed the impressions they made in the second half of their 1-1 draw with Italy at Brighton last month . |
| 27 | Thing about this programme it is so it is so crucial to everything that goes on at Radio York while it is happening , they eat in the other room that 's how much er interest there is they eat in the other room . |
| 28 | Thing about this programme it is so it is so crucial to everything that goes on at Radio York while it is happening , they eat in the other room that 's how much er interest there is they eat in the other room . |
| 29 | They sit in a long line in York , yeah ? |
| 30 | Thirty yards back along the street they sit in a murky Cavalier . |