Example sentences of "they [vb past] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were three of them seated in the wardroom , Talbot , Van Gelder and Grierson . |
| 2 | He came back to school after Christmas with 4 of them stuffed in the back of his mini and it just went from there . |
| 3 | In an ugly incident in November , armed raiders forced staff at the Athena/Claude Gill Bargain Bookshop on Oxford Street , London , to hand over at gunpoint around £4,500 from the safe and left them locked in the basement with tape over their mouths . |
| 4 | For this the British and French between them lost in the region of 600,000 men ; the Germans more than 440,000 . |
| 5 | Some of them worked in the field , he understood , but these were the younger , smarter ones who had been trained as cipher clerks and radio operators , usually to serve a male agent . |
| 6 | Nearly all of them lay in the Ruhr and Silesia ; those in the latter area were to become more and more important because of the ease with which they could be worked and the quality of Lower Silesian coking coal . |
| 7 | Opposition to them resulted in the proposals being withdrawn . |
| 8 | Most of them died in the onslaught which followed , their historic city completely destroyed . |
| 9 | She has not seen him since half past six , when they met in the kitchen over a salami sandwich . |
| 10 | They met in the cocktail bar of the Richemond . |
| 11 | And they met in the woods where Robert was murdered . |
| 12 | ‘ They met in the tunnel . ’ |
| 13 | They met in the lobby , which was little more than a hallway graced by a couple of wooden armchairs . |
| 14 | Perhaps they might become friends , she thought doubtfully , or at least neighbours , passing the time of day if they met in the road . |
| 15 | They met in the Hotel Continental . |
| 16 | They met in the bar as arranged . |
| 17 | A Soviet was elected by the workers and soldiers , and they met in the Tauride Palace . |
| 18 | But Tyrone took the honours earlier this season when they met in the league at the Athletic Grounds . |
| 19 | He played for Shropshire and Herefordshire boys and was in the same team as Sandy Lyle ; many years later they met in the final of the 1987 Suntory World Matchplay Championship and Woosnam became the first British winner . |
| 20 | My mother is French , they met in the war . |
| 21 | But does n't every band from that area maintain that they met in the Hacienda ? |
| 22 | The early hundreds often lacked the formality of later attempts at local government : frequently they met in the open , at a convenient central spot , perhaps marked by a tree , as at Easebourne . |
| 23 | Apparently innocent of the opportunity which had been presented to them , they met in the Ravenhill Church and talked about what they should do and even hesitated about talking to the journalists waiting outside . |
| 24 | The script of They Met in the Dark ( 1946 ) , in which James Mason is a discharged sea captain hunting down those who delivered fake orders to his ship , is a textureless and muddled affair . |
| 25 | When Endill opened the door they creaked in the draught and it reminded him of the old hanging tree beside the front gate back home at Gibbet Hall . |
| 26 | She stood shaking , setting the flaming tresses about her quivering so that they rippled in the shafts of light broken by the barrier of trees . |
| 27 | It 's so , I mean , wake up Christmas morning and they put a tray out , the first thing they do on , the last thing at night , Christmas Eve they put a big tray out and on the tray they got it 's a called and they 're like chocolate biscuits , they 're like biscuits , right , and that gets with every member of the house , say there 's ten in that house , that that gets lined round the outside of the tray , right , and then inside of that 'll be now a circle of the wine , and then they have like whatever drink they got in the middle and the first thing that happens Christmas Eve morning is they get up and that gets poured and the tray goes round , if you sit down |
| 28 | I suppose when they got in the water they enjoyed the dip . |
| 29 | As far as most Sussex people were concerned , it was probably a struggle which only affected them if they got in the way of one of the opposing forces . |
| 30 | They got in the way . |