Example sentences of "they [vb past] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without turning round he said in a harsh voice : ‘ If you want to know about Inez , Mr Wycliffe , you must ask Sara , the two of them lived in the same house for nearly twelve years . |
| 2 | There were three of them seated in the wardroom , Talbot , Van Gelder and Grierson . |
| 3 | He came back to school after Christmas with 4 of them stuffed in the back of his mini and it just went from there . |
| 4 | Galleys took some small part in the indecisive battle of Cape Matapan between the Turkish and Venetian fleets in 1717 ; but apart from the large fleets of them maintained in the Baltic by Russia and Sweden they had become obsolete long before the end of this period . |
| 5 | There are at least ten or a dozen different principal textures , but it would be unusual to find a large number of them used in the same piece . |
| 6 | Two of them came in the third round . |
| 7 | Two of them came in the first half as Bolton tore Watford to shreds . |
| 8 | The German prostitutes were terribly clean and efficient and not one of them seemed in the least turned on by what they were doing . |
| 9 | The NUWM was at the centre of most of the violent clashes with the police in the early 1930s , though this tactic was later changed to the more peaceful and probably more effective " hunger march " which took the unemployed through the countryside and down to London rather than leaving them isolated in the Distressed Areas . |
| 10 | The first efforts to drain them began in the 1880s , but the main push came after a hurricane in 1947 drove floodwaters over Lake Okeechobee 's southern edge , drowning more than 2,000 people . |
| 11 | When Maggie returned she found them locked in the strained silence . |
| 12 | In an ugly incident in November , armed raiders forced staff at the Athena/Claude Gill Bargain Bookshop on Oxford Street , London , to hand over at gunpoint around £4,500 from the safe and left them locked in the basement with tape over their mouths . |
| 13 | Some 15 million of them served in the armed forces , over 11 million going overseas ; and it is estimated that another 15 million moved from their homes , mainly in the smaller towns and the rural areas , to the booming sites of the war industries , such as those in California . |
| 14 | For this the British and French between them lost in the region of 600,000 men ; the Germans more than 440,000 . |
| 15 | Some of them worked in the field , he understood , but these were the younger , smarter ones who had been trained as cipher clerks and radio operators , usually to serve a male agent . |
| 16 | Nearly all of them lay in the Ruhr and Silesia ; those in the latter area were to become more and more important because of the ease with which they could be worked and the quality of Lower Silesian coking coal . |
| 17 | Opposition to them resulted in the proposals being withdrawn . |
| 18 | Most of them died in the onslaught which followed , their historic city completely destroyed . |
| 19 | They failed in the former endeavour but succeeded in the latter . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The script of They Met in the Dark ( 1946 ) , in which James Mason is a discharged sea captain hunting down those who delivered fake orders to his ship , is a textureless and muddled affair . |
| 22 | Apparently innocent of the opportunity which had been presented to them , they met in the Ravenhill Church and talked about what they should do and even hesitated about talking to the journalists waiting outside . |
| 23 | Within a couple of days they had paired off with English boys whom they met in the Spanish bars . |
| 24 | He played for Shropshire and Herefordshire boys and was in the same team as Sandy Lyle ; many years later they met in the final of the 1987 Suntory World Matchplay Championship and Woosnam became the first British winner . |
| 25 | But does n't every band from that area maintain that they met in the Hacienda ? |
| 26 | The early hundreds often lacked the formality of later attempts at local government : frequently they met in the open , at a convenient central spot , perhaps marked by a tree , as at Easebourne . |
| 27 | They met in the bar as arranged . |
| 28 | And they met in the woods where Robert was murdered . |
| 29 | Photographer Linda persuaded Paul to bare all soon after they met in the late Sixties . |
| 30 | My mother is French , they met in the war . |