Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb past] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The literature which discussed his duties and the personal qualities which he needed to perform them successfully became in the seventeenth century more copious than ever before . |
| 2 | One of them even slept in the same room as her , but heard nothing . |
| 3 | They rarely lived in the countryside , but their investments brought them prestige as well as profits . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Aye , they only came in the su they only came up here in the summer . |
| 6 | They only came in the last winter of the war , just a few months . |
| 7 | It worked out and then they only lived in the other half while they were doing it , was n't it ? |
| 8 | promising life like frantic oracles ; and they only stopped in the morning , promised |
| 9 | and they only stopped in the morning , |
| 10 | They only differed in the positioning of the Drosophila simulans and Ephestia cautella microorganisms within the PM/CIM group . |
| 11 | We were all most impressed with our German hosts and the pride that they obviously had in the town . |
| 12 | They just happened in the natural order of things . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They thus shared in the human condition to the extent that inferior men did , and needed no special comment . |
| 16 | The five million crimes recorded in Britain last year suggest serious social disorder , but they scarcely figured in the election . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | By the time they finally arrived in the deserted car park behind the arcade she was trembling from head to foot , racked by every emotion from fear to rage . |
| 19 | Like most other molluscan groups they rapidly diversified in the Ordovician . |
| 20 | Saudi Arabia and Egypt clashed through the parties they respectively supported in the Yemen civil war in the 1960s . |
| 21 | Danish defender Bjorn Kristensen hit the second-half equaliser that gave Kevin Keegan 's side a point they hardly deserved in the Anglo-Italian Cup they won when it was last staged 19 years ago . |
| 22 | As Fidelma got Agatha into bed , they looked at each other with honesty as they always did in the end . |
| 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 | In Through the Looking Glass , you will remember , the Red Queen seized Alice by the hand and dragged her , faster and faster , on a frenzied run through the countryside , but no matter how fast they ran they always stayed in the same place . |
| 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 | The obligations of stateless organization , the solemn ceremonies of making peaces , perhaps worked better in 1979 than they ever did in the stateless age . |
| 27 | Positive cells were found mainly in the subepithelial region in normal colon , while in inflammatory bowel disease they also appeared in the deeper lamina propria . |
| 28 | They later appeared in The Prodigal Son as ‘ Seven Pictures from China ’ , and have since proved popular with anthologists . |
| 29 | In 1980 , they both played in the World Junior Championship with gold going to Garry Kasparov and silver to Nigel Short . |
| 30 | Joey opened the Sierra and they both got in the back . |