Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They rarely lived in the countryside , but their investments brought them prestige as well as profits . |
| 2 | The series was tight and there were many close matches which could have gone either way but they eventually went in the American 's favour . |
| 3 | They only get in the way when you 're using a keyboard and anyway they 're easy to get off because the glue 's not up to much . |
| 4 | Now , these are examples of positional isomers just using ordinary groups they only differ in the position of those functional groups , sorry , of those groups . |
| 5 | They only differ in the position of that O H group . |
| 6 | promising life like frantic oracles ; and they only stopped in the morning , promised |
| 7 | and they only stopped in the morning , |
| 8 | They only differed in the positioning of the Drosophila simulans and Ephestia cautella microorganisms within the PM/CIM group . |
| 9 | We were all most impressed with our German hosts and the pride that they obviously had in the town . |
| 10 | They just integrate in the body . |
| 11 | He said are you speaking to the no , no , around town he says , I do n't mind doing a bit more , you know , out and about not much about they just sat in the traffic , you know . |
| 12 | But source critics , prompted by the recurring refrain " And the rest of the deeds of King X , are they not written in the Book of the Chronicles of the Kings of Judah/Israel ? " , have concluded that much of the early material in the book has in fact been taken from royal annals and other trustworthy contemporary records . |
| 13 | Had they not seen in the evening the clouds in the West with seas and lagoons , and in the night the lights of the canoes as they sail on for ever ? |
| 14 | If Ministers are serious about wanting us not to be governed by unaccountable bureaucrats , why are they not leading in the argument that those decisions that have to be taken at European level are fully accountable to a stronger European Parliament that is elected by a fair system ? |
| 15 | The numbers of single mothers have risen dramatically in the 1980s ( from 130,000 in 1976 to 360,000 in 1989 ) but they nevertheless remain in the minority among lone mothers . |
| 16 | Although all parties may be completely ignorant of the reasons , they nevertheless stand in the queue . |
| 17 | In the European Community , during the boom years of the 1960s and 1970s , they already existed in the Balkans and elsewhere , as they exist for the United States in Latin America . |
| 18 | They generally live in the shires and eat cakes and cucumber sandwiches . |
| 19 | The five million crimes recorded in Britain last year suggest serious social disorder , but they scarcely figured in the election . |
| 20 | When they finally settled in the branches of a tree there were hordes of them , so many that they looked like fruit overburdening their source ‘ ripe to be plucked . |
| 21 | Saudi Arabia and Egypt clashed through the parties they respectively supported in the Yemen civil war in the 1960s . |
| 22 | ‘ They always sit in the corner . |
| 23 | They would be going off in the boat together because that is what they always did in the mornings , to return in half an hour . |
| 24 | As Fidelma got Agatha into bed , they looked at each other with honesty as they always did in the end . |
| 25 | The novelist , William Hale White , felt that some of the men he had known before being expelled from a Congregational theological college ‘ would have had more genuine lives if they had stood behind counters or learned some craft than they ever had in the ministry ’ . |
| 26 | As they usually occur in the afternoon , the learners may be tired and sleepy after a busy morning and a big lunch . |
| 27 | They also differ in the nature of the system which would deliver that which is desired . |
| 28 | But they also say in the alternative that that since the plaintiffs themselves were at this time by mid to late October of nineteen eighty five , not ready or able to complete it would have been improper erm for the defendant to advise the plaintiffs to serve a special notice to complete and my Lord the question that therefore arises er whether , even if that were correct , er and it 's not admitted that it is , that exonerates the defendants from given the advice er and whether they should still have advised the plaintiff erm of the opportunity which was open to him , that the plaintiff could if necessary take that course himself or be advised to go er elsewhere and be advised independently is er this is , this the point of the matter which he regarded as improper and was not willing to do it on the plaintiff 's behalf . |
| 29 | But , at the same time , they also believe in the reality of these demons which their Muslim faith recognizes and explicitly describes in the Koran . |
| 30 | They later appeared in The Prodigal Son as ‘ Seven Pictures from China ’ , and have since proved popular with anthologists . |