Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] in [art] " 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 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 ) . |
| 4 | And you could bet that the moment he 'd left they 'd sat down in the shade . |
| 5 | It was not that this could be attributed to a weakening of moral fibre on their part , but rather that they had grown up in a society in which there were few straightforward moral guidelines , and into ‘ a community which is thoroughly confused about morals , and … their behaviour reflects that confusion ’ . |
| 6 | They had grown up in the same house since they were babies and were virtually inseparable . |
| 7 | Apart from being baked hard by the heat of the lava , these sediments were quite undisturbed , and had been carried bodily as smoothly as if they had gone up in a lift . |
| 8 | the pit and the the circular with a saw you know , the wood , they had to go down in a in a pit . |
| 9 | Some who were on the list contested their placing and felt ‘ it was unreasonable that they had lost out in the advertisement race ’ . |
| 10 | Having wandered about all over the house , they had ended up in the dining room where the cabinet full of glass was . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | In Vienna quite a few of them had gone around in a crowd together , boys and girls . |