Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pron] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Above all , she recalled the pride and happiness in Ludovico 's eyes as they met hers in the swirling crowd . |
| 2 | They got him in the boat and they he had to lie down in the bottom of the boat and they and they covered him with a tarpaulin . |
| 3 | The design team under Hugh Lasson and Misha Black ( both later knighted ) were right in believing that there was hunger for visual stimulation among the British and they got it in the form of sculpture , murals and mobiles by Moore , Hepworth , Piper , Sutherland , Topolski and Epstein as well as a pedestrian precinct which was all grilles and screens and balls and decks and terraces and fountains and colour . |
| 4 | So , I mean , er it 's the proof old folks that get it , they got it in the war time , they had to starve in war time to feed their children . |
| 5 | Frankie 's fall reflected the way they made it in the first place , through marketing rather than live performance . |
| 6 | The rich merchant thought the children should always salute him and call him ‘ sir ’ when they passed him in the street . |
| 7 | They stopped it in the end did n't they ? |
| 8 | CALLOUS thieves dumped a baby in the street after they found her in the back seat of the car they had just stolen . |
| 9 | They found her in the lavender field With her flowers as her final shield . |
| 10 | Traffic began to peter out and they found themselves in the middle of extensive minefields . |
| 11 | In 1990 , they found themselves in the bizarre situation of being unseeded at Wimbledon , where they had won the title five times . |
| 12 | For example at Edgehill , a GIST pack for discussion of sex roles — Gender in Our Lives — was used in the personal and social education lessons , with teachers talking honestly and openly about their personal experience ; as it happened they found themselves in the middle of a discussion about fathers being present at childbirth , and the children were obviously fascinated by this new view of their teachers as emotional beings . [ … ] |
| 13 | However , by some strange quirk of FA paperwork they found themselves in the Multivite Vegeburger/Singletons Valve Replacement League , formerly the Mid-Counties South-West ( Northern Division ) whose Premier Division Athletico had briefly graced in 1938 . |
| 14 | ‘ In 1945 , ’ Husband said , ‘ they were trading cigarettes-which were better than gold in those days — for party cards and affidavits that they 'd always been true Worker Youths-once they found themselves in the Russian Zone . |
| 15 | David pushed open one of the french windows and they found themselves in the library . |
| 16 | They found it in the simultaneous detonation of 454,000kg/ 1m lb of explosives in deep tunnels under the German front line . |
| 17 | Gill and Jackson go on to identify eight ‘ black and mixed race couples ’ , seven ‘ mixed race ’ children and three black children , and use this sample to demonstrate that racial identity confusion , as they found it in the transracially placed children , could also be found in black children in black families and ‘ mixed race ’ children in ‘ mixed race ’ families : ‘ They provide an interesting comparison … because … same race placements are increasingly regarded as the ideal by social workers … and it is in the black and mixed race couples that ( it is said ) the child will come to develop a strong racial identity ’ ( p. 129 ) . |
| 18 | They found you in the snow and they carried you to the nearest shelter . |
| 19 | He tried to get away in his wheelchair , but they caught him in the hallway . |
| 20 | They caught someone in the Bazaar just the other day . |
| 21 | They buried him in the churchyard here . |
| 22 | He alienated those he feared were becoming too important to him , and they rejected him in the manner to which he had become accustomed . |
| 23 | Knock out a rabbit at fifty paces , they told him in the shop . |
| 24 | Dinner was exquisite , even though they ate it in the somewhat strained silence of two people who had discovered they had absolutely nothing to say to each other . |
| 25 | And he cried do you think she would need a worm and he held up a worm , but he came and put this poisoned worm in the mole , you know that 's what they did , they had er mole er worms that had doped with poison , you see and then they dropped them in the hole and that was the end of the mole . |
| 26 | They disposed themselves in the drawing room . |
| 27 | He could still feel eyes on him , they were like fingers , they poked him in the ribs , the shoulderblades , the neck , it was hard not looking round . |
| 28 | After all , ’ he threw at her , ‘ I 'm sure it was a mere oversight that they forgot you in the first place . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ They paid it in the day before . |
| 30 | The thin , pitiful cries were somehow unearthly when they waked him in the dark small hours . |