Example sentences of "they were [verb] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were quartered in a sumptuous villa next to the Roman baths and messed with their officers ( a notable departure from French Army custom ) at the best hotel in the town . |
| 2 | They were convicted in the magistrates ' court , but appealed successfully to the Divisional Court on the ground that the question whether their obstruction had been reasonable had not been adequately considered . |
| 3 | The hunters accepted , and thus were founded the famous White Lions of Chrace , so called because they were garbed in the furs of the white lion . |
| 4 | They were maintained in a temperature controlled environment provided with a 12:12 hour light:dark cycle and given regular guinea pig food and tap water ad libitum . |
| 5 | They were received in the Minister 's private flat in one of the narrow streets close to the House of Commons . |
| 6 | They were raised in the middle years of the last century from sturdy stocks and grey slate , with glorious tiled floors and superb vaulted ceilings . |
| 7 | No , there are at Tower now , they were raised in the Tower , but they eh , I do n't know when they moved , they moved to a the depot at a |
| 8 | They were absorbed in the effort of walking , did not see Alice . |
| 9 | Now they were gathered in the chapel for her final journey home . |
| 10 | They were gathered in the High Street and around the market place , but could not compete with the standard of living of those at the upper end of the social scale in the county towns and old corporate boroughs . |
| 11 | From their sure-footedness over ankle-twisting rocks , they were obviously young , and they were babbling in the manner of teenage boys with everyone talking and no one listening . |
| 12 | Oh no they were based in the town , at buildings , used to be at the buildings . |
| 13 | They were based in the main on constituency Labour parties although Communists and , for a short time , members of the ILP worked within them . |
| 14 | They did not look as though they were suckering in the baleful way that the ordinary stag's-horn sumach does , but as I have not grown either myself yet , I can not vouch for their good behaviour . |
| 15 | Firstly , we have to recognise that they were lending in a market which was being actively encouraged . |
| 16 | Then , sensing that her manner was too abrupt for courtesy , added , ‘ They were killed in a traffic accident in France . ’ |
| 17 | Ponyboy , although living with his two elder brothers , lost his parents when they were killed in a car crash when he was young . |
| 18 | They were killed in an accident just before I was married — Peter was my father 's friend . ’ |
| 19 | Military officials told AI that they were killed in the cross-fire between soldiers and insurgents . |
| 20 | They were treated in a quite different way and in separate wards the forerunner to the modern pay-beds . |
| 21 | Admittedly many of them were hardly trained and lacked experience , and in addition they were operating in a more populated area with often unfriendly Arabs . |
| 22 | Next second they were sprawling in the mud and water , motor cycle on top of them . |
| 23 | Like sod sliced by the share , or sea by the bowsprit , butchered meat in its clothing reeled back on this side and that , and as men fell behind him , they were replaced in the svinfylkja by others . |
| 24 | These beautiful Celtic antiphons were preserved by aural tradition until the 13th century , when they were recorded in the Inchcolm Antiphoner , one of Scotland 's oldest musical manuscripts . |
| 25 | Methodological principles need to be discussed at the rather abstract level at which they were presented in the preceding chapters ; otherwise it is not always easy to assess the applicability of a set of methods to a new research context . |
| 26 | potatoes and then they were boiled in a big boiler . |
| 27 | About this time it was announced that pensioners whose means were insufficient to pay their rent were to have the amount made up by social security allowances even if they were living in a private home , so with a light heart I set about making application . |
| 28 | By now they were living in a small town , Modyokerto . |
| 29 | It was another hot windless day , and they were living in a bowl of milky haze and smog , so that the blue only began perhaps twenty degrees above the horizon . |
| 30 | At this site it 's quite clear they were living in a prtly wooded area in quite a warm environment . |