Example sentences of "they [vb past] in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were often designed by engineers , but what they lacked in architectural distinction , they gained in homely practicality and in the opportunities they afforded to local carpenters to display their skills in beautifully carved barge boarding and valances . |
| 2 | Having suffered a rare whitewash when they met in last season 's Asian Open qualifiers , the world champion was relieved to clinch a 1-0 lead in their Humo European Open quarter-final . |
| 3 | They gazed in bovine surprise at the scarlet-faced visitor , and for one frightful moment Breeze felt that she must flee . |
| 4 | They got in each other 's way at the window . |
| 5 | Martin Foyle and Lee Nogan , dear oh dear , they got in each other 's way when there was an empty net in front of them . |
| 6 | And then if they got in good condition built up solid . |
| 7 | Rather , they lived in practical uncertainty , often felt threatened , and then argued about the justice and permanence of the new order created for them . |
| 8 | They were foreigners ; they lived in squalid housing ; they cooked and washed for themselves ; they were mostly unmarried ; they were poor ; they were disgruntled at their posting ; they were desperately bored mercenaries of the intellect . |
| 9 | So they lived in one wing and everybody called it that . |
| 10 | They lived in luxurious misery in sub-divisions , like an army encampment ( which subdivision do you come from ? ) |
| 11 | For weeks the newspapers had been full of stories about it , with , over and over again , people describing how well they lived in this country , how much they loved their homeland , how they did everything to strengthen East German socialism — as if there were not several thousand people leaving the country in a panic at the time . |
| 12 | They rode in five westbound trains and four eastbound trains , observing how the crowds began to thin , especially in those heading for inner London , encountering no trouble beyond some pushing and shoving by teenage boys and a smoker in the third car who put out his cigarette without protest when one of them asked him . |
| 13 | They rode in single file , for the ground became broken as they climbed higher and the hoofs of their mounts dislodged loose stones that clattered down the hillside . |
| 14 | Forty-nine houses they wasted in this way . |
| 15 | The room was rippling with the sounds of their scuffle as they fought in bitter silence , knocking into wooden furniture , she trying to get away , he trying to get her to the bed until they fell against a nightstand and it crashed to the floor . |
| 16 | He refused to sign again with his club and sought , inter alia , declarations that the rules of the Football Association relating to the retention and transfer of football players , including the plaintiff , and the regulations of the Football League relating to retention and transfer were not binding on him , because they operated in unreasonable restraint of trade . |
| 17 | Like countless adverts for soap powder , shampoo , tropical fruit drinks , deodorants , which had been absorbed into her memory during hours of television watching , the world they inhabited in this fantasy was innocent and carefree , a garden of Eden before the Fall . |
| 18 | Just behind them in the table , following a fine win at home over David Lloyd Finchley , are the Walton Astro 's who leap-frog above the team they defeated in second place . |
| 19 | Durie and Bates lost their mixed doubles title in the quarter-final to the pair they defeated in last year 's final , Scott Davis and Robin White . |
| 20 | But during the Palaeozoic and Mesozoic they occurred in such profusion in inshore sediments that they are frequently important components of the rocks in which they are found . |
| 21 | They moved nothing except their eyes , but they moved in perfect time to the footsteps , marking the position , flicking backwards and forwards as the human crossed the room above . |
| 22 | If these three individuals are innocent of the charge that they contributed in any way to the Holocaust , then that innocence should be revealed in a trial . |
| 23 | Rubberneck , on his part — he saw his sister gloat over the suitcase , the bits of coloured paper — well , he preferred that she gloated ; it was a rest , his knees on the hard floor , that they knelt in endless prayer . |
| 24 | Ron Todd , general secretary of the Transport and General Workers ' Union , said they found in this year 's dock strike that some judges had changed little since the days of the Tolpuddle Martyrs or Taff Vale . |
| 25 | They referred in that connection to their arguments with regard to the residence requirement . |
| 26 | In particular , they referred in that connection to the infringement of the rights conferred on the ‘ joint venture ’ vessels by article 168(4) of the Act of Accession 1985 , read in conjunction with Annex XII thereto . |
| 27 | Although as yet their role was peripheral , from the point of view of Russia 's subsequent history the new ideology and forms of organization which they adopted in this period merit close attention . |
| 28 | Merseyside members of the 1st Army Associaton take pride in the part they played in this achievement and in remembering present comrades and those gallant friends who fell in the conflict . |
| 29 | It is Protestant perceptions which explain their actions and those perceptions were amplifying the fundamental divisions between those unionists who remained committed to pragmatic reform , either because they believed in liberal unionism or because they believed that satisfying the Westminster government 's demands for reform was the only way to maintain Stormont , and the right-wingers who wanted to preserve traditional unionism . |
| 30 | Khrushchev 's denunciation of Stalin had angered the Chinese Communist leaders , as they believed in rigid adherence to the Stalin type government , and they disapproved of any form of ‘ co-existence ’ . |