Example sentences of "they [vb past] [was/were] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last time they met was in the old second division at the county ground . |
| 2 | The only place they lived was in the northern mountains , the Greshorns . |
| 3 | The whole Cabinet agreed that there should be a cut in the amount that the unemployed were receiving ; where they disagreed was in whether this should include a cut in the standard rate of benefit . |
| 4 | The closest they came was in the mid-Eighties when their group , Trash , Flash And Money — ‘ straight down-the-line uninteresting Billy Idol rock music ’ — was signed to a development deal by Capitol records in America ( in a development deal they give you some money while they decide whether you are any cop after all ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | That they took on the importance they did was in part the fault of the government . |
| 7 | What little they spoke was in the specially reverent voice reserved by the middle classes for times of bereavement . |
| 8 | The foreman , Ricky Hill , said afterwards that the only problem they had was in deciding exactly when Mr Bakker began the pattern of fraud . |