Example sentences of "they [vb past] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They failed in the former endeavour but succeeded in the latter . |
| 2 | They met in the Egyptian wing , at the same place each time , near a fragment of papyrus which was labelled , The Opening of the Mouth Ceremony . |
| 3 | One day , they met in the second class compartment of a train — unemployed but taking the bad days as cheerfully as the good , knowing that tomorrow probably would find them enjoying the material rewards of advertising yet again . |
| 4 | And one of the reasons they all became interested at the same time was that a lot of them knew each other , and so one of the things I 've been looking at is the correspondence between Americans and British people , and the fact that they travelled and kept diaries of who they met in the other country , and they all swapped ideas on how to deal with this particular level of poverty . |
| 5 | Within a couple of days they had paired off with English boys whom they met in the Spanish bars . |
| 6 | Photographer Linda persuaded Paul to bare all soon after they met in the late Sixties . |
| 7 | Now , getting back to the comment the woman made earlier about men being misogynist within their own world I 'm quite convinced that a good deal of those men would go home to their wives and family and be very loving to their , to their wives and family , be respectful of their neighbours but as soon as they got in the all male environment , and this woman was there to be used , she was their property for the time that they paid their money to get through the door , they could be as misogynist , offensive and horrid as they wanted to be ! |
| 8 | The only rough treatment they got in the first half , worked in their favour , as Jim Magilton was hauled down , but up he bounced to hit home the penalty . |
| 9 | They lived in the tiny village of Croud Cantle , nestling in the heart of the Hampshire Downs . |
| 10 | I used to take them home on quite a number of occasions if I 'd known that they lived in the immediate vicinity . |
| 11 | They lived in the Turkish quarter and in outward appearance resembled the Turks , although their religious and cultural life was very different from that of their neighbours . |
| 12 | Rauschning , though he hardly seems to have understood , could complain about the Gauleiter 's lifestyle precisely because they lived in the Free City . |
| 13 | They lived in the same apartment block and often dined together , creating unfounded rumours that they were having an affair . |
| 14 | Samuel was the more prolific pamphleteer , but according to Edwards , mother and son collaborated closely , ‘ the one inditing and the other writing ’ , and they lived in the same house at least until the end of 1652 . |
| 15 | There was a Mr and Mrs , Stephen was and there was a Mr and Mrs , the caretakers , and they lived in the third floor of a flat there . |
| 16 | Even in the eighteenth century , when interiors ( and people ) were at every social level a great deal dirtier than they became in the Victorian period , Defoe 's Moll Flanders can forgive a multitude of sins , where everything is ‘ so handsome and so clean ’ . |
| 17 | England 's performance confirmed the impressions they made in the second half of their 1-1 draw with Italy at Brighton last month . |
| 18 | The development plans which they produced in the first decade of independence were for the most part competent , well thought out and well presented . |
| 19 | But to the Mesolithic hunter-nomads they formed a forest kingdom , a race of forest creatures , saviours , oracles , and tormentors all at the same time ; they arose in the mythogenic unconscious both to explain nature 's hostility to the people 's actions , and to express the hope of survival against the unknown . |
| 20 | They wintered in the lush lowlands of canyons on the Grande Ronde and Imnaha valleys , wandering up Joseph Creek in the spring to harvest kouse on the higher meadows . |
| 21 | By removing the incentive to become or to stay competitive , countries risk losing in the longer term the benefits they sought in the first place . |
| 22 | They stopped in the next village two miles away . |
| 23 | They stopped in the flower-bordered road , and Miguelito looked down at her . |
| 24 | In summer they swam in the heated outdoor swimming pool , looked for frogs and newts , picnicked on the beach near their private hut at Brancaster and played in their very own tree house . |
| 25 | So many Britons whose lives were little more than hard unremitting toil would have used the licence of the festival to make fun of these imagined orgies , especially if they occurred in the great houses . |
| 26 | There was little room for lesbians to be out in the first half of this century , unless of course they moved in the right literary or aristocratic circles . |
| 27 | It was a beautiful sunny Queensland day and there in the sunshine they rejoiced in the shared memories . |
| 28 | Although tankers did not come in for the attention they received in the 1980s , on 25 January Platt 's carried an account of an attack on an Iraqi tanker by US aircraft . |
| 29 | It summoned its forces around it now and they played in the dying fires , kicked through the wood ash , spiralled into the heavens on the vortices of smoke ; danced with the dancing boy . |
| 30 | They played in the dark est part of the street where they could not be seen , but it was not difficult to guess who they were . |