Example sentences of "they [vb past] in [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They got in each other 's way at the window . |
| 2 | Martin Foyle and Lee Nogan , dear oh dear , they got in each other 's way when there was an empty net in front of them . |
| 3 | For weeks the newspapers had been full of stories about it , with , over and over again , people describing how well they lived in this country , how much they loved their homeland , how they did everything to strengthen East German socialism — as if there were not several thousand people leaving the country in a panic at the time . |
| 4 | Forty-nine houses they wasted in this way . |
| 5 | ‘ But why they attacked in such numbers and with such determination is beyond my ken . |
| 6 | Like countless adverts for soap powder , shampoo , tropical fruit drinks , deodorants , which had been absorbed into her memory during hours of television watching , the world they inhabited in this fantasy was innocent and carefree , a garden of Eden before the Fall . |
| 7 | But during the Palaeozoic and Mesozoic they occurred in such profusion in inshore sediments that they are frequently important components of the rocks in which they are found . |
| 8 | If these three individuals are innocent of the charge that they contributed in any way to the Holocaust , then that innocence should be revealed in a trial . |
| 9 | Ron Todd , general secretary of the Transport and General Workers ' Union , said they found in this year 's dock strike that some judges had changed little since the days of the Tolpuddle Martyrs or Taff Vale . |
| 10 | They referred in that connection to their arguments with regard to the residence requirement . |
| 11 | In particular , they referred in that connection to the infringement of the rights conferred on the ‘ joint venture ’ vessels by article 168(4) of the Act of Accession 1985 , read in conjunction with Annex XII thereto . |
| 12 | Although as yet their role was peripheral , from the point of view of Russia 's subsequent history the new ideology and forms of organization which they adopted in this period merit close attention . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Merseyside members of the 1st Army Associaton take pride in the part they played in this achievement and in remembering present comrades and those gallant friends who fell in the conflict . |
| 15 | It was something they recognised in each other and shared . |
| 16 | They came in many shapes , being made from collective desire , which fact seemed to move Sartori profoundly . |
| 17 | They came in all shapes and sizes ; and all of them claimed to have become permanent partners . |
| 18 | THIN , fat , young , old — they came in all shapes and sizes as the TODAY Cellulite Roadshow was launched yesterday . |
| 19 | It they suffered in this way , they had to be sprayed with fresh water . |
| 20 | AIR travellers came down to earth with a bump yesterday when they joined in some charity aerobics . |
| 21 | AIr travellers came down to earth with a bump yesterday when they joined in some charity aerobics . |
| 22 | On the whole , they had either been through the English education system and had therefore a good command of English and a limited domestic register in their other languages , or they had been educated abroad and learnt their English as adults when they arrived in this country . |
| 23 | " Where would a young man and woman go — assuming they landed in this city with little money and no contacts . " |
| 24 | Holtby — tall , fair , confident , gregarious — was Brittain 's ‘ opposite ’ ; but they discovered in each other complementary experience , literary ambitions , and social ideals . |
| 25 | When western doctors went in to look for thyroid and other illnesses , they could not tell whether the apparent increase they discovered in these things was due to radiation or to the fact that no one had done such a thorough diagnosis before . |
| 26 | They constructed in this way true arches with radiating voussoirs , but a controversy exists as to whether the European origins here are Etruscan or Roman , as Etruscan examples all date from the later period of the third century B.C. onwards when Roman supremacy over the Etruscans was being established . |
| 27 | Why were n't they exchanged in this case ? |
| 28 | Where once they flew in such flocks that they threw shadows over the earth , they now survive in a few straggling colonies . |
| 29 | During the next half hour they worked in this way , and when the empty cases and the bed covers were at last placed on the cart , Aggie locked the door , then hesitated for a moment , wondering what to do with the key . |
| 30 | They lay in each other 's arms , as if what they had done |