Example sentences of "they [adv] [vb past] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The literature which discussed his duties and the personal qualities which he needed to perform them successfully became in the seventeenth century more copious than ever before . |
| 2 | Some of them helped , but most of them just stood in their doorways and watched . |
| 3 | The material which yesterday had draped them now lay in discarded heaps on the stones of the paving below , and men were hastily tacking new lengths — the mercers and drapers must have ransacked their warehouses to find enough , and the cost would no doubt make the court treasurer blench — to the framework . |
| 4 | One of them even slept in the same room as her , but heard nothing . |
| 5 | They rarely lived in the countryside , but their investments brought them prestige as well as profits . |
| 6 | They rarely succeeded in making an antislavery question into a diplomatic issue , though they occasionally tried to exploit an existing issue for antislavery purposes . |
| 7 | In fact , the evidence suggests that at the time of the great debates over defence and the Middle East in 1946 Britain had a realistic view of Soviet intentions in this area — that they fundamentally consisted in a determination to secure access to oil concessions in northern Iran . |
| 8 | They presumably put in train the arrangements for the necessary legislation , as on 27th April , Molesworth introduced a Bill to the House of Commons to enable the Government to acquire the land for the scheme . |
| 9 | The Mesozoic ginkgos were a varied and numerous group of plants , but unlike the spruces and pines they slowly declined in variety throughout the Tertiary . |
| 10 | Erm there is a further implication in this conception , and again I quote whosoever therefore out of a state of nature unite into a community must be understood to give up all the power necessary to the ends for which they unite into a society to the majority of the community unless they expressly agreed in any number greater than the majority and this is done where are we by barely agreeing to unite into one political society which is all the compact that is or needs to be between the individuals that enter into or make up a commonwealth . |
| 11 | The series was tight and there were many close matches which could have gone either way but they eventually went in the American 's favour . |
| 12 | It was denied again in Sir John Eliot 's Case ( 1629 ) 3 St Tr 294 , a decision which , however , the Houses never accepted and which , after objections in 1641 and 1667 , they eventually rejected in 1668 when the House of Lords reversed the decision of 1629 and held that there could be no proceedings in respect of words said in Parliament . |
| 13 | While Sarah was trying to sort out the mess — they eventually married in May 1980 at St Mary 's church near Althorp — Diana was having fun . |
| 14 | He deduced that the nomadic Hebrews had their origins there and had brought no more than a handful of the place names with them when they eventually settled in Palestine . |
| 15 | In Nottingham he acquired a mistress , Susan Grey , an attractive and educated widow who accompanied the Wards ( he was now using Hannah 's name ) to London , where they eventually settled in Peckham . |
| 16 | Aye , they only came in the su they only came up here in the summer . |
| 17 | They only came in the last winter of the war , just a few months . |
| 18 | But in the action samples the costs increased six-fold in Ipswich and three-fold in Newham between referral and third assessment , whereas in the control samples they only doubled in both Ipswich and Newham . |
| 19 | ‘ They only succeeded in poinding us because they tricked their way into the house . |
| 20 | They only fought in order to protect somebody else ( ‘ like one of the younger kids who 's getting smashed up ’ ) but were clearly very capable of making a good job of it . |
| 21 | There was no board outside proclaiming it to be a guest house , or hotel , so if it was n't , and they only took in private guests , or friends , she could hardly go dumping herself on them just on the recommendation of someone called Annie , could she ? |
| 22 | It worked out and then they only lived in the other half while they were doing it , was n't it ? |
| 23 | promising life like frantic oracles ; and they only stopped in the morning , promised |
| 24 | and they only stopped in the morning , |
| 25 | It nearly killed them to acknowledge my existence and they only spoke in monosyllables when I was present , but the babble of sound which broke out every time I went out and closed the door behind me was enough to make me want to go rushing straight to Miss Malley to beg her to send me back to my friends . |
| 26 | They only differed in the positioning of the Drosophila simulans and Ephestia cautella microorganisms within the PM/CIM group . |
| 27 | I kept them to myself , where they constantly grew in depth and where they became merely a backdrop to my private obsession : home , family , school , everything . |
| 28 | We were all most impressed with our German hosts and the pride that they obviously had in the town . |
| 29 | They apparently engaged in an intimate conversation , destined to emerge in the Sun newspaper last year , as the notorious Dianagate or Squidgy tapes . |
| 30 | They apparently engaged in an intimate conversation , destined to emerge in the Sun newspaper last year , as the notorious Dianagate or Squidgy tapes . |