Example sentences of "they [verb] in the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They failed in the former endeavour but succeeded in the latter . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They lived in the tiny village of Croud Cantle , nestling in the heart of the Hampshire Downs . |
| 8 | I used to take them home on quite a number of occasions if I 'd known that they lived in the immediate vicinity . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Rauschning , though he hardly seems to have understood , could complain about the Gauleiter 's lifestyle precisely because they lived in the Free City . |
| 11 | They lived in the same apartment block and often dined together , creating unfounded rumours that they were having an affair . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 ’ . |
| 15 | England 's performance confirmed the impressions they made in the second half of their 1-1 draw with Italy at Brighton last month . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | The persons alleged to have picked up the letter then chase the accusers round the circle and try to catch them before they sit in the empty space , as in the previous game . |
| 19 | The development plans which they produced in the first decade of independence were for the most part competent , well thought out and well presented . |
| 20 | They change in the same society over time ; for example , when one society is at war with another , some people are actively encouraged to wound and kill other people from the enemy group . |
| 21 | Nor are they decentralised in the true meaning of the word : powers belonging to the centre are not devolved to peripheral firms . |
| 22 | Why had they gathered in the shadowed space ? |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | They stopped in the next village two miles away . |
| 25 | They stopped in the flower-bordered road , and Miguelito looked down at her . |
| 26 | Many of the meats in this category may not immediately be labelled as sausages in your mind , but this is where they fit in the standard delicatessen classification . |
| 27 | Do they behave in the same way syntactically , or , to put it more accurately , do topics , like themes , have no syntax ? |
| 28 | I think as a Group Captain er explained y'know the the operational staff have really got to complete their study into what kind of tactical reconnaissance capability they want in the next century . |
| 29 | Our discoveries about their similarities and differences will lead us to examine other passages in Exodus and Numbers , and our desire to explain certain features of all these texts will then encourage us to look at the positions they occupy in the larger narrative , and so discuss their contexts in greater detail . |
| 30 | We may try to explain them by pointing to the place they occupy in the larger narrative . |