Example sentences of "[adv] they [vb past] the [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently they feared the burning timbers more than the bullets , but no doubt they were feeling some reaction after more than four hours in action : four hours of dodging snipers ' bullets and bursting open doors that all too often concealed a rifleman who fired , while around the houses a grenade could be dropped from any window . |
| 2 | So they sang the old hymns with tears in their eyes and an ache of pride in their hearts . |
| 3 | So they entered the cheerful portals of the Jade Cockatoo , the only cafe to be found in Chetwynd , and threaded their way through a maze of small tables to an alcove by the fire , where they took off their soaking mackintoshes and warmed their hands . |
| 4 | His brother , Cherry , joined him in his work and together they became the first men to illustrate books on natural history throughout with photographs . |
| 5 | Together they searched the towering walls of moving water . |
| 6 | I do try to give the rescue teams some feedback on the casualties , so that they know whether or not they did the right things . |
| 7 | Mournfully they toured the two houses , acknowledging with a glance , a pat , or some reminiscence , every object that they loved . |
| 8 | Once more they mounted the dark steps of the building in the rue de Rivoli and once more the lift was motionless and the stairway light failed at the most inconvenient moments . |
| 9 | An hour later they used the same tactics to gain entry to the other half of the camp . |
| 10 | Four years later they gave the 368 children left in the study standard reading and spelling tests . |
| 11 | And erm , they recorded different things , but Mat but also they recorded the same things as well |
| 12 | Slowly they became the legal authorities on the religious law , adding comments and interpretations of their own . |
| 13 | But when they were switched on they blew the main fuses , which deprived them of lighting for the day and taught them why they had to rely on coal fires . |
| 14 | Dagbladet yesterday brought a table from the spanish first division ( =premier ) with albacete listed even though they were not in the top five : ie they listed the top-five teams some ‘ … ’ and albacete : im quite sure that mean something though nothing more in the papers today . |
| 15 | Five years six years ago they introduced the postal wallets because they found that estate agents were sending the very expensive glossy brochures out in the post . |
| 16 | Maybe they named the Spanish terrorists after … |
| 17 | Michael followed him out and helped pile the waste branches into heaps for burning and then they stacked the scattered lengths of the firewood . |
| 18 | I mean to me the boss of of our bench , there was probably twenty people on the bench , to me the boss of that it was n't what you call a particularly good job but she 'd always worked at the and of course when when went on War work er th those that were still there they got the better jobs you see , to organize us that had n't been , worked there before . |
| 19 | How they glimpsed the Dark Lords who hold sway there , how they saw that the skies were dull and clotted with evil magic and black bewitchments . |
| 20 | Indeed , there was a moment when they seemed the oldest eyes in the world . |
| 21 | At about the same period the Mongol-speaking Buryats moved into the steppes and forests around the southern end of Lake Baikal , where they subjugated the previous inhabitants . |
| 22 | The Frames were where they grew the special items ; strawberries and lychees , pineapples and oranges , grapes and peaches , cherries and almonds , pears and melons . |
| 23 | In white hooded overalls and trained for snow warfare , the Commando quickly occupied the two harbours on the westerly island of Moskenesöy , where they found the local Norwegians anxious they should stay in case there were German reprisals . |
| 24 | The French Dragoons did not follow immediately ; instead they spurred into the abandoned wood where they found the Prussian camp-fires still burning . |