Example sentences of "they [vb past] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He sometimes had to disappear to the lavatory several times when they met in a pub or café . |
| 2 | On Friday they met in a mosque with the men from Zliten , demanded 6000 dinars ( £11,800 at the then official exchange rate , £6500 at the going rate in the free market ) , and received assurances of payment . |
| 3 | They met in a soup kitchen in Hull , decided that cutting a record together would be fun , and before long had Paul Weller offering to play guitar for them . |
| 4 | Not many miles away , two estates meet , between Wootton and Steeple Barton , precisely where they met in a charter dated 958 , and possibly for some considerable time before that . |
| 5 | And anytime they got in a fix , they called on the children to lift paper masks ( given out free and serving as a programme on the reverse ) to their faces and give a special Care Bear Stare at the stage to overcome Coldheart 's evil intent . |
| 6 | Surely you do n't actually believe all that stuff in the papers about how it was so much better in the old days , but then they got in a bunch of yuppies and ruined it all by going down-market and yoof-crazed , do you ? |
| 7 | They lived in a village called Deya , on the Spanish island of Majorca . |
| 8 | The physical setting of a parish influenced not only the ways in which a family might farm their land or work at a particular craft but also such basic matters as whether they lived in a village , a hamlet or an isolated farmstead , whether or not they had valuable rights of common to go with their farms or cottages , and sometimes the type of tenure by which they held their land . |
| 9 | They lived in a basement flat in South London then , he , his wife , and the two little girls . |
| 10 | Migrating from pasture to pasture with their herds of horses , cattle and other animals , they lived in a type of portable home ( ger ) consisting of a circular framework covered with felt ( which the Russians incorrectly called yuna ) . |
| 11 | They lived in a council house in Wembley , which was a little off-putting . |
| 12 | They lived in a house in the Terrace , and eventually my father was sent to Ampleforth in Yorkshire , a Benedictine monastery which also ran a boarding school . |
| 13 | In 1939 when I arrived with my gas mask from Newcastle they lived in a farm in the grounds of a castle in what was then called Cumberland ( and still should be ) . |
| 14 | After several months ' work , during which time they lived in a caravan parked on the site , the owners , Mr and Mrs Bates were able to move into the future garage area of the building in August 1984 and to continue work on the upper-floor accommodation under the shelter of the reslated roof . |
| 15 | We excluded patients if ( i ) they had had an episode of pneumonia within the past 6 months , ( ii ) they lived in a nursing home or had been admitted to another hospital within the past 2 weeks , and ( iii ) there was subsequent clinical or laboratory evidence of a different diagnosis . |
| 16 | They lived in a world of their own , that lot . |
| 17 | The woman constable went to speak to the youths , aged 16 to 19 , as they loitered in a churchyard in Guildford , Surrey . |
| 18 | Lambert blinked to rid his eyes of a sudden haziness and then the German was on him , with a curiously muffled stutter that swelled and was lost in the bellow of their engines as they passed in a blaze of flashing muzzles and white-hot exhausts and shinning propeller blades . |
| 19 | They cheated in a spelling test together and they played kiss chase in the playground . |
| 20 | They stopped in a village strung out in ribbon development along the flat straight road from Assisi to Perugia . |
| 21 | In the passage leading back to the northbound platform of the Northern Line they stopped in a corner , the man got out his mouth organ and the bear began to dance . |
| 22 | Unlike any organisms seen before , they moved in a direction determined by the Earth 's magnetic field . |
| 23 | For instance , a scheme ( devised by Meade ) to alter social insurance contributions according to the state of the economy , so they rose in a boom and fell in a slump , thus helping to stabilise purchasing power , was mentioned to Beveridge . |
| 24 | They fetched a lightly padded patchwork quilt from the Centaur Room , a pink candlewick from the Room Without a Name , two of white cotton from the Room of Astonishment and a counterpane of heavy yellow satin they found in a cupboard in the Pincushion Room . |
| 25 | But as well as having a novel structure , the theory has an explanatory power quite unlike that of classical economics : for while the latter attempted to explain economic systems as a response to individual needs , Marx accounted for a much wider range of social phenomena in terms of the part they played in a totality . |
| 26 | And it was in Paris that the Liszt-Thalberg rivalry began ( though it was not a thing of their own making , and there does not seem to have been any genuine animosity between them ) ; when they played in a contest in an aristocratic household Thalberg was declared the first pianist in the world and Liszt was thus deemed to have won on points , and it was said that Thalberg departed with his head hung low . |
| 27 | A century earlier , in Shakespeare 's day , that world had been a mysterious place ; Othello could tell his travellers ' tales of the men whose heads do grow beneath their shoulders and , while the references to Bermuda in The Tempest were up-to-the-minute , they came in a play that was a collection of fairy stories . |
| 28 | They came in a singing swarm . |
| 29 | Tim Laurence , tallest player in the Durham University College squad and as tough as they came in a challenge , sported his hair above his ears , and at lectures his tie would always be knotted properly , his jacket and trousers immaculate . |
| 30 | He searched for a resting place for them and they lashed in a helplessness before finding a firm ledge out in the grey darkness beyond his vision . |