Example sentences of "they [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They failed in the former endeavour but succeeded in the latter . |
| 2 | Kangaroos can sustain speeds of up to 25 km/h for long periods ; but what they gain in the springs , they lose as pendulums . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Within a couple of days they had paired off with English boys whom they met in the Spanish bars . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | But does n't every band from that area maintain that they met in the Hacienda ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | They met in the bar as arranged . |
| 11 | And they met in the woods where Robert was murdered . |
| 12 | Photographer Linda persuaded Paul to bare all soon after they met in the late Sixties . |
| 13 | My mother is French , they met in the war . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She has not seen him since half past six , when they met in the kitchen over a salami sandwich . |
| 16 | They met in the lobby , which was little more than a hallway graced by a couple of wooden armchairs . |
| 17 | They met in the cocktail bar of the Richemond . |
| 18 | ‘ They met in the tunnel . ’ |
| 19 | Perhaps they might become friends , she thought doubtfully , or at least neighbours , passing the time of day if they met in the road . |
| 20 | But Tyrone took the honours earlier this season when they met in the league at the Athletic Grounds . |
| 21 | A Soviet was elected by the workers and soldiers , and they met in the Tauride Palace . |
| 22 | They met in the Hotel Continental . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | When Endill opened the door they creaked in the draught and it reminded him of the old hanging tree beside the front gate back home at Gibbet Hall . |
| 25 | She stood shaking , setting the flaming tresses about her quivering so that they rippled in the shafts of light broken by the barrier of trees . |
| 26 | He did n't see , not even when they got in the car and his Dad drove off . |
| 27 | As soon as they got in the car and were clear of the port , the girl said : ‘ Can we stop for a moment ? |
| 28 | After a further period four queens and then four aces came along and they got in the beds too . |
| 29 | As far as most Sussex people were concerned , it was probably a struggle which only affected them if they got in the way of one of the opposing forces . |
| 30 | They got in the way . |