Sentence examples for they were unfortunate from inspiring English sources

Arsenal had chances over the two legs but they were unfortunate to come up against the best.

Though they were unfortunate enough to buy high and sell low, they were glad to cut their housing costs by half.

They were unfortunate that Hungarian referee Viktor Kassai did not spot either of the two decent penalty claims City had before Gomez struck.

If they were unfortunate to fall behind there was, perhaps, an element of luck about the penalty awarded by referee Kevin Friend when Alexander MacDonald went down in the box.

They were unfortunate to be behind at half-time and 2-0 was certainly not an accurate reflection of the play when Mario Gómez doubled Germany's lead with a 57th-minute header.

Atkinson, with the certainty of a manager who knew his team were flying, deliciously mused: "We have been playing well for months and they were unfortunate to run into us in this kind of form".

Current circumstances are far from ruinous, but they are unfortunate.

GPs, sympathetic to the shortcomings of some of their patients, admit them to the ranks of the disabled when, like Otto's cousin, they are unfortunate but not unemployable.

While most actors will have had some drama-school training in stage combat and fencing, fewer, unless they are unfortunate enough to be repeatedly cast in Guy Ritchie movies, will work regularly with gun replicas.

Fiercely competitive, the object of the game is to buy property around the board of varying quality, then build "houses" and "hotels" on one's property empire, charging opponents rent if they are unfortunate enough to land on your square.

The Italians, again like the Scots, believe they are unfortunate to reach this stage without a victory.