Example sentences of "they [vb past] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Ayr , they lived in a little thatched cottage and Bel obtained employment as a washer-woman to support herself and her son , albeit in the dire poverty of her class in that time . |
| 2 | Cos all the other schools they filled in the rest part of the week . |
| 3 | From 1963 they filled in the gully and fenced the land . |
| 4 | In 1947 , Government was in the hands of the Labour Party and in August they brought in a Bill to nationalise all public transport , including the main line railways , the larger bus companies and London Transport . |
| 5 | I did n't want to wear glasses , and I was thinking how I could get out of it but finally they brought in a bunch of pairs of glasses and I was trying them on in the mirror , and I tried on a pair and I thought , ‘ Gee , these do n't look too bad ’ . |
| 6 | They brought in a white guy to replace him . |
| 7 | Then they brought in a couple of supporting interrogators and gave me the third degree . |
| 8 | They , they brought in a heap of people to disassemble these rockets and inspectors as er examined every , every part of the rockets . |
| 9 | I think he had a little bit of ill health and my immediate superior took over as Traffic Superintendent and he was there throughout the war and when I came out he was my boss and er you see and er and then in nineteen forty eight was made Transport Manager , because as you say we had to split from Electric Supply and he carried on until erm nineteen seventy two and erm , we had government reorganization and erm they did away with people like the Town Clerk and Transport Manager and erm erm was retired , early retirement , the same as the Town Clerk and erm they brought in a General Manager from away and brought in more staff with him and that was came in and er so I then applied for the position , which was going , there was , there was Traffic Superintendent was going er Chief Administration Officer , Chief Engineer and erm er Bodywork Maintenance Superintendent . |
| 10 | He had some ill health erm he , he was , they brought in a bloke who was retired from some place up north , Sheffield I think it was . |
| 11 | ‘ Why do you think they brought in the Black and Tans ? |
| 12 | They brought in the Welfare State , but they forgot Barbara herself . |
| 13 | They brought in the horses , hobbled them and built up the fire . |
| 14 | It was erm , they had expanded , they brought in the Clapgut Lane route during the war . |
| 15 | The fact that they arranged for a petition from the inhabitants of Southwark , complaining about those who had welcomed the Palatines , to be presented to the Commons on the same day that they brought in the bill of repeal , suggests that contemporary politicians ( unlike some modern-day historians ) did believe that popular pressure could have a powerful impact on events at Westminster . |