Example sentences of "[adv] they [vb past] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They were now proceeding up a driveway bordered on each side by shrubs : and then quite suddenly they emerged into an open area . |
| 2 | Suddenly they gave under the intolerable strain , ripped free from their mountings and crashed to the ground . |
| 3 | How far they were supreme in any new and unprecedented sense , whether their advance can be termed revolutionary , how much they owed to the innovatory genius of Thomas Cromwell are questions still open to dispute . |
| 4 | Deeper and deeper they went into the dark hole . |
| 5 | There was something faintly sinister about these speechless nuns ; but perhaps they belonged to a silent order . |
| 6 | Perhaps they belonged to the Christian community in Rome . |
| 7 | Only John and Nora could see it , for only they knew of the terrible demand that would sooner or later be made on their resources — and it was going to be well over the hundred thousand that John had estimated . |
| 8 | ‘ When they came in they talked of the first team and it seemed an offer I could n't refuse ; with hindsight , I should never have gone . ’ |
| 9 | And so they came to a negotiated settlement by which the Soviets agreed to withdraw the missiles and the United States promised that they would not interfere with Castro again , although from that day to this they have maintained of course their economic embargo . |
| 10 | And so they came to a negotiated settlement by which the Soviets agreed to withdraw the missiles and the United States promised that they would not interfere with Castro again , although from that day to this they have maintained of course their economic embargo . |
| 11 | So they came to the great Roman Wall , at Birdoswald , built to keep out their Pictish ancestors a thousand years before . |
| 12 | So they went to the High Court to challenge the decision and have been given leave to seek a judicial review . |
| 13 | So they went to the Kildingy Well which was s supposed to have some kind of magical properties you see and er I do n't ken if it was a a holy well or exactly but it certainly was reputed to have some kind of properties that could cure supposed to cure any disease save the black death . |
| 14 | So they went to the Kildingy Well and dipped their flails in the water . |
| 15 | Lorton won nearly two pounds from the fruit machine so they celebrated with a third pint . |
| 16 | Anne and Chris did n't want to return full time to stressful teaching jobs when their maternity leave ended , so together they sent in a joint application for a full-time position with a covering letter pointing out the benefits of job sharing , and the way they could organize their week and their timetable . |
| 17 | The girl opened a door with a Yale key — giving even this limited movement a lucid flow of limb — and together they stepped into a dark room . |
| 18 | At this time she met the young ( Sir ) Edwin Lutyens [ q.v. ] , also a native of West Surrey , and together they drove around the narrow lanes in her dogcart , sketching and photographing details that appealed to them : a buttressed wall , a patterned chimney , the angle of a building which , although the result of chance , was pleasing in design . |
| 19 | He waited while Kerrison climbed up beside him and together they walked towards the parked cars . |
| 20 | Together they walked along the High Street towards the Market Place where they parted , Stephen for Whalbys ' , Stringer to return to Cartwright-Cageby 's where he was a foreman fitter . |
| 21 | He nodded Chant on , and together they headed over the ill-lit and squalid ground . |
| 22 | One of these had married an Indian Christian doctor , and together they worked for the sick and wounded , although badly handicapped by the lack of medicines . |
| 23 | Together they watched across the old gravestones as Ted Hammond waited patiently by the lychgate , thanking each of the mourners as they left . |
| 24 | Swiftly they closed on the running prey up ahead , the scent growing stronger in their nostrils , heightening the bloodlust of the chase . |
| 25 | Soon they disappeared behind a nearby slope — and I crawled from under the bush where I had hidden . |
| 26 | Soon they came to a stout fence of raw , new , wooden palisades with a door in it that said ‘ Private ’ above a grim-toothed lock . |
| 27 | Soon they dozed beside the gurgling brook , muzzles resting on outstretched forelegs , recovering their strength after their earlier exertions . |
| 28 | If soldiers could find a defender from outside their number ( as they did in the poet Thomas Hoccleve , who pleaded that greater respect be paid to their economic predicament in old age ) , more often than not they suffered from the verbal and literary lash of preachers , moralists and other writers . |
| 29 | 1–11- A Kirk Session was constituted in Bowmore and " thereafter they proceeded to the usual place of worship of the Free Church , when Mr Cameron preached in the Gaelic and English languages . " |
| 30 | At 8.30am yesterday they departed for a one hour , speed endurance training session , completed before the temperature began its climb to 30 C. |