Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] [adv prt] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Humbled at Sheffield Eagles on Sunday , in their first game after the defeat of Canberra Raiders , they failed to bounce back in the Lancashire Cup last night , losing to a disciplined Warrington side . |
| 2 | He went on to describe the drivers swearing as they got snarled up in the midday Cairo traffic . |
| 3 | They eat standing up in the kitchen . |
| 4 | They seemed to give up in the second half , failed to mark anyone , gave Wallace ( who was running riot ) as much space as he wanted , and left Quinn up , waddling around ( usually into an offside position ) like a half-deflated barrage baloon ( with a tache ) . |
| 5 | And you could bet that the moment he 'd left they 'd sat down in the shade . |
| 6 | They seem to drift about in the middle and good grey columns or rudeness at the other end of the market . |
| 7 | But other couples will either find a way through and re-negotiate their relationship to allow for the different people that they 've now become , or they may shelve them because they get caught up in the , the very busyness of life , what we call the , the productivity phase , which is the third phase , where couples are maybe having children , building up a family , building up careers ; they 're involved in that sort of activity . |
| 8 | They keep landing up in the middle . |
| 9 | The prize at stake is immense , but Leeds have five players walking a disciplinary tightrope and they risk missing out in the champions ' league if they collect a second caution . |
| 10 | Do you think perhap , erm , because it 's not so busy , do you think perhaps they 've cut back in the restaurant , and that 's why you 're doing a bit more work for the restaurant , you know , doing the floaters and things . |
| 11 | they 've gone down in the world again a bit . |
| 12 | In the meantime , all the genuine members who 've stayed on are livin' in the tented village they 've set up in the grounds , around the burned out house . |
| 13 | They had grown up in the same house since they were babies and were virtually inseparable . |
| 14 | Some who were on the list contested their placing and felt ‘ it was unreasonable that they had lost out in the advertisement race ’ . |
| 15 | Having wandered about all over the house , they had ended up in the dining room where the cabinet full of glass was . |
| 16 | As the battering wind seized them they had to stoop along in the darkness , fighting for handholds , first the base of the old pulley , then the mast . |
| 17 | Servants came , and wrapped them in soft new sheets together , and carried them to the bed which they had set up in the white room . |
| 18 | The light was fading perceptibly now ; they had set out in the full glare of the midday sun , but they had ridden for several hours and dusk was creeping across the land . |
| 19 | They had rolled around in the narrow berth on the unanchored sheet , slipping on the shiny much-worn cheap leatherette surface of the bunk , lurching in and out of one another in a determined kind of way , the only passengers on the boat not to be paralysed with seasickness . |
| 20 | Then we went in to Hamish and Tone 's for tea and apologies , and later drove to the castle for what would have been the most excruciating interval of my life if Verity and Lewis had still been there , but they were n't ; they had taken off in the car to visit some friends of Verity 's who lived in Ardnamurchan , and would n't be back until late tomorrow at the earliest . |
| 21 | DERRY Minors could be forgiven for suffering from ‘ double vision ’ as they prepare to meet Down in the Ulster MFC on Sunday . |
| 22 | Both went to art school : neither needed art school to learn how to do the work they have put up in the Hayward . |
| 23 | And the lads used to come , they used to do , in them days , you know , they wanted to go out in the country to get a bob or two . |