Example sentences of "[vb past] in [noun] they " in BNC.
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| 1 | Elizabeth and I used with amusement to look at each other 's horoscope in the newspapers , but without credulity : I explained to her that even if one believed in astrology they must be regarded as nonsense , being entirely unscientific and paying no attention to the hour of birth and therefore to the ‘ rising sign ’ . |
| 2 | The two claimed in court they only intended to scare him into giving information about their property . |
| 3 | When Theseus and the other Athenians arrived in Crete they were met by King Minos and his beautiful daughter Ariadne . |
| 4 | Each day Tim spent in hospital they thought he might survive , but tests showed the opposite . |
| 5 | And they had to admit that what the ‘ fair sex ’ lacked in muscle they made up for in guile as the ladies took a mid-game lead with a well-converted try . |
| 6 | As she screamed in pain they stole a necklace she was wearing . |
| 7 | We saw in Sweden they tried to modify their game to fit in with the Continental style and it did n't work . |
| 8 | It appeared that school was giving both urban and rural children something akin to Western self-consciousness for they could answer questions implying a personal point of view ; and as they advanced in school they became increasingly capable of categorising the same stimuli according to different criteria or ‘ points of view ’ . |
| 9 | Slowing down , she listened in case they were in the middle of a talk too personal to be interrupted ; but it soon became clear that they were discussing the house and the various improvements that might be made once Europe had reached some kind of normality again . |
| 10 | Flora envied them because all the things she craved in life they could buy cheaply in the NAAFI . |