Example sentences of "they [verb] [vb pp] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Only the decrees of the Council are preserved , seventy-one in all , and nearly all of them became incorporated in the Church 's authoritative collection of the canon law compiled in 1234 . |
| 2 | As we shall find , they became embroiled in the nationalist struggle . |
| 3 | They became trapped in the ice . |
| 4 | ‘ But somehow , they became rooted in the reserves , whereas we felt they should have zoomed into the premier league and joined the elite of beat . ’ |
| 5 | When an organization invites the Prince or Princess of Wales to make a speech on their behalf , it is customary for them to write a draft , incorporating any appropriate facts and figures or particular message that they want conveyed in the speech . |
| 6 | He says they wer injured in the Iran-Iraq war . |
| 7 | In the end Leeds could have had 4–5 … if they 'd scored in the first half it could have been 10 ! ! |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | She remembered those kisses they 'd exchanged in the water . |
| 10 | If only they 'd stayed in the little home on the train . |
| 11 | Maybe someone had one for sale and they 'd advertized in the papers . |
| 12 | In the other room , a Swiss boy and a German girl were making an impressive model chalet from a kit they 'd found in the hobbies cupboard . |
| 13 | Rory talked fast and funnily , told them of the rat they 'd found in the caravan when they 'd come to it , recounted the horrors of a little restaurant in Buncrana where they 'd eaten the night before , and laughed at the way he and Mallachy had sailed past the beach a thousand times before deciding to boldly ask them for a drink . |
| 14 | ‘ The Parents ' Association coughed up — used the money they 'd got in the sports fund . |
| 15 | They 'd arrived in the area late last night at this unofficial travellers ' site off the A46 near Chipping Sodbury . |
| 16 | She began to be uncertain whether she would be able to recognise him ; she tried out her set of mental snapshots , but they were dim and amorphous , as if they 'd rubbed in the wallet of her fantasy for too long . |
| 17 | Giant clams on the reef may grow to be a metre long ; they lie embedded in the coral , their mantles fully exposed , a zigzag of brilliant green flesh spotted with black , which pulsates gently as water is pumped through it . |
| 18 | He stipulated that his kinsman John Herringman should have ‘ my Coppyes and partes of Coppys of Books as they stand entered in the Register Booke of the Company of Staconers … provided that he serves out his seaven years of Apprentishipp justly and truly ’ . |
| 19 | " They get kicked in the teeth . " |
| 20 | But the story goes that money speaks , and some people , some parents , if they get hit in the pocket , will probably take more notice of their child , |
| 21 | Yeah but they get served in the end see , by the end of the night they get served do n't they , you know ? |
| 22 | And they get slaughtered in the process . |
| 23 | Particularly if they get serialized in the Sunday newspaper . |
| 24 | Earlier today police mounted a reconstruction of what they believe happened in the seaside town 's Upper Main Street in the hours before the terrorist explosion . |
| 25 | There 's only three , yeah three they reckon left in the world and they found one with a Japanese |
| 26 | Whichever basis or mix of bases leads to the establishment of those beliefs , they become embedded in the individual and organizational consciousness as ‘ pre-existing ’ knowledge systems which are used to interpret events as they occur . |
| 27 | Many dolphins drown as the net is pulled and tightened towards the side of the seiner , and they become trapped in the closing mesh . |
| 28 | Marx 's and Engels 's rejection of idealism , however , is qualified in that they also reject the crude materialism which they saw manifested in the work of such writers as the German socialist Feuerbach . |
| 29 | Outside the hospital , ASAP students lead peer discussions through several short video triggers developed by ASAP , or they create their own trigger role-plays about their own lives or about the stories they 've heard in the hospital and jail . |
| 30 | The appearance at Fairford is the first time they 've appeared in the west and it 's a matter of immense pride to them . |