Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] [adv] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were hunched together in the middle of the room . |
| 2 | Later that evening when they were seated comfortably in the bar Mary brought up the subject of the eerie feeling in the cutting ; they agreed it had been a most disturbing experience and that there must be some explanation . |
| 3 | Raine refused to speak to Diana 's mother in church even though they were seated together in the same pew . |
| 4 | As with so many of Eliot 's apparently portentous remarks , I fancy that they were uttered partly in a quizzical manner , and that the mock solemnity was intended to convey the idea of a conspiratorial ritual . |
| 5 | Unfancied Cumbria were disappointingly unable to reproduce the form that produced that remarkable upset at Aspatria when they beat the title holders a year ago , and they were swept aside in a second-half torrent of scoring . |
| 6 | When they were riding up in the lift , Damian said , ‘ I think we should go over the minutes together . ’ |
| 7 | Formalities did not take long , and in no time they were riding upwards in the lift and then walking along a corridor to the door of Ven 's suite . |
| 8 | They were hidden elsewhere in the Dresden Heide , in a safe place . |
| 9 | In fact , they were chatting peacefully in the shade . |
| 10 | They needed each other , them complemented each other , they were bound together in a joint world order that defined the period 1948–1989 . |
| 11 | The light had quite gone now and they were bound together in the glow which came from the lantern above their heads . |
| 12 | Although they were eating early in the evening , English 's was already full of Conservatives demanding in patrician tones that the bones should be removed from their Dover soles . |
| 13 | Yesterday they were spewed out in the aftermath of the Musgrave Park Hospital outrage but they were the same words which Mr Brooke and his predecessors have used time and time again after other bloody acts of terrorism . |
| 14 | When they were deployed later in the townships , the ANC accused 32 Battalion in particular of acting as a destabilising ‘ third force ’ and demanded its disbandment . |
| 15 | THEY were cooped up in a university conference chamber listening to Ian Harley , head of the British Australian Studies Association , declare : ‘ This is an earnest academic meeting and the next few days will be strenuous and demanding . ’ |
| 16 | The star kissed her three children goodbye before they were whisked away in a chauffeur-driven car with their nanny and John 's brother Patrick . |
| 17 | Now we knew they had accepted the box as their home and would probably come back to it even if they were allowed out in the open . |
| 18 | ‘ It is n't over ‘ till it 's over , ’ Defries had whispered to Bernice as they were jostled together in the middle of a crowd of lurching androids . |
| 19 | Only when they were returning home in the dusk did James say , ‘ You 'll be right not to come back to Bewick . |
| 20 | From what I could gather they were showing in in the area where the new ticket office is , as opposed to a bit screen on the pitch facing the east stand as they propose for the scum game ( And they 're getting a beer license for this too ! ! ! ! ! ) . |
| 21 | But the figures are quite clear that there are benefits of having in-house erm erm , fields that can compete against the private sector for county council work , and the fear , and the reason why they were set up in the first place , to make sure that you could n't have outside erm , er or private organisations setting up cartels to basically screw the local government down , and charge whatever price they want and con us through and through . |
| 22 | That may be why chatlines , costing up to 48p a minute , have been popular with young people since they were set up in the late Eighties dangerously popular , in some cases . |
| 23 | The details of that title are nowhere given , beyond a statement that they were set out in the petition of the three estates which besought Richard to take the crown . |
| 24 | The details of that title are nowhere given , beyond a statement that they were set out in the petition of the three estates which besought Richard to take the crown . |
| 25 | When Mackay launched his cavalry at the attackers ' flank to try to restore the situation , they were caught up in the rout of the demoralised infantry , now stampeding from the field , while the victorious Highlanders pressed on unchecked until distracted from killing by the chance of plunder as they reached Mackay 's baggage train . |
| 26 | Many of the leading scholars amongst the South Slavs during the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries were widely travelled and had studied in France , Germany , Austria and Italy , where they were caught up in the intellectual ferment which was abroad at that time . |
| 27 | Yet they were caught up in the atmosphere and importance of the occasion . |
| 28 | Oh yes quite so and if they 're doing well they really , local people really get behind them , but they , they 've prom in previous seasons they they 've promised so much and then fell away at the end that people have got a bit disillusioned and discontented so that , but like last year when they were doing well in the cup they erm at Watford I mean loads of people went to see them . |
| 29 | They erm and , and some of the characters they in days gone by they used to dress up in costume if they were doing well in the Cup and have er a pole with a model of the F A Cup on Walsall 's colours and they used to dress up in red and white suits claret and blue suits when they played in those colours yeah . |
| 30 | He screwed his eyes tightly shut and tried not to imagine what they were doing together in the room with the shuttered window . |