Example sentences of "they [verb] [be] in [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 'd been in it only a year , but Mrs Yardley had lavished as much effort on it as she had on her beautiful cake . |
| 2 | Then they stared at each other in silence and saw into each other 's heart , sensing that each was a little afraid of what was to come , and of the powers that they felt were in their wings and across their lives and which had brought them together . |
| 3 | Where they differ is in their assessment of the nature , extent and source of Bolshevik influence . |
| 4 | But you see they 're spending a lot of the time you know , on developing ways of repairing roads after they 've been in them . |
| 5 | And he away to Dale in and then the the s took it on and they 've been in it since . |
| 6 | Although there was no hope that her own son and his intimates would forgo their day 's sport , there were those less inclined for the hunt than they had been in their younger days . |
| 7 | They had seen little of Rosemary Talbot during the last four months , so it was n't until they had been in their flat for a week and Leith went across the hall to invite Rosemary and her husband over for a celebratory drink that Leith learned that Derek Talbot no longer lived there . |
| 8 | Hearing : After they have been in their homes for quite a short time , people who live near railway lines cease to hear the sound of the passing trains , even though the noise may seem deafening to a visitor . |
| 9 | It needs to be granted , certainly , that in speaking of a thing 's properties one is not always speaking of individual properties , and that the proponents of more traditional solutions to the problem of universals , unsuccessful though they have been in their own proposals , have made trouble for the solution in terms of individual properties . |
| 10 | Thus we need to be especially careful what we do with young horses so that the habits they establish are in their interests and not to their detriment . |