Example sentences of "[adv] they [vb past] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly they gave under the intolerable strain , ripped free from their mountings and crashed to the ground . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Deeper and deeper they went into the dark hole . |
| 4 | Perhaps they belonged to the Christian community in Rome . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | So they came to the great Roman Wall , at Birdoswald , built to keep out their Pictish ancestors a thousand years before . |
| 7 | So they went to the High Court to challenge the decision and have been given leave to seek a judicial review . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | So they went to the Kildingy Well and dipped their flails in the water . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He waited while Kerrison climbed up beside him and together they walked towards the parked cars . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He nodded Chant on , and together they headed over the ill-lit and squalid ground . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Together they watched across the old gravestones as Ted Hammond waited patiently by the lychgate , thanking each of the mourners as they left . |
| 16 | Swiftly they closed on the running prey up ahead , the scent growing stronger in their nostrils , heightening the bloodlust of the chase . |
| 17 | Soon they dozed beside the gurgling brook , muzzles resting on outstretched forelegs , recovering their strength after their earlier exertions . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . " |
| 20 | Five minutes later they stood on the grassy bank looking down at the brown water . |
| 21 | Now they sat in the tiny dressing room , their washing hanging on the radiators , eating health food and tirelessly sending information and soft-focus photographs of themselves to directors , theatres , agents , TV companies and producers . |
| 22 | Increasingly they looked to the central government for more grants and financial help . |
| 23 | Six armed and bombed-up B–17s took off at 1140hrs and flew southwards to seek the enemy , unfortunately they went in the wrong direction . |
| 24 | Sometimes they sat in the front room reading aloud from the work of a man called Ian McEwan , an author who , according to Elinor , had ‘ a great deal to say ’ to Henry Farr . |
| 25 | Sometimes they complained to the Veterinary Council , but as we were innocent we were quite rightly vindicated . ’ |
| 26 | Then they left for the 13-mile drive to their luxurious home at Corston , near Bath . |
| 27 | And then they went to the different islands and I remember this for when we were at the hotel me brother and me went across , well me was on it too we were all young then . |
| 28 | She dressed while they waited , then they went down the greasy stairs into the street . |
| 29 | By the middle of nineteen twenty six they had thirty thousand members and then they peaked in the early part of nineteen twenty seven with sixty thousand members . |
| 30 | Then they started on the front line of police . |