Example sentences of "but they [vb past] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gradually the meetings got longer and longer until eventually they began , not in the evening , but they began in the morning and they lasted from perhaps ten in the morning until the early hours of the next day . |
| 2 | I thought they meant eight o'clock in the morning , but they meant in the |
| 3 | When I asked if they could make me an identical one trimmed with black fur and beading instead , they were horrified but they agreed in the end . ’ |
| 4 | These restrictions on testation had disappeared over the greater part of England early in the fourteenth century , but they survived in the province of York till 1692 , in Wales till 1696 , and in London till 1724 . |
| 5 | Iraq categorically denied such reports , but they persisted in the West and one US news agency reported later in the day that Iraqi troops had actually crossed into the Kuwaiti-Saudi Neutral Zone . |
| 6 | But they stood in the way of ‘ improvers ’ , usually great landowners like the Earl of Bristol in the 1660s who were greedy for the easy expansion of their estates which forest enclosures could offer . |
| 7 | In the meantime the police had been called , but they stayed in the background throughout the proceedings . |
| 8 | Later when there were large sailing ships they used the deep water channel as far as Kingston-upon-Hull but they docked in the River Hull to unload their cargoes and the goods were carried inland by barges on the rivers to Selby , York , Beverley and Gainsborough . |
| 9 | He 'd tried posters , but they curled in the steam . |