Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] they [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Local folklore has it that in prehistoric times men drove wild cattle to their deaths over Combe Scar and ate them where they fell at the foot of the crag ( cattle bones are reputed to have been found there ) . |
| 2 | He drew her against him , linking her arm in his as they walked along the track . |
| 3 | My parents once told me that they lived on the Canary Islands for a little while but I do n't think I was born just yet . |
| 4 | They told me that they came from the country near Lagrimone and that they had obtained permission to come to pray in the Santuario for their cousin who was fighting in Russia . |
| 5 | ‘ Tell them that they waited in the dark for us ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ The guards , they showed the paper to me and they pointed at the photograph and said : ‘ He is with us ’ . ’ |
| 7 | As far as most Sussex people were concerned , it was probably a struggle which only affected them if they got in the way of one of the opposing forces . |
| 8 | General Lu Han had 180000 troops with him and they lived off the country in the traditional Chinese manner , looting and exporting industrial plant to China . |
| 9 | She looked up at him and they kissed on the lips , this time not frivolously , but full of heat and passion . |
| 10 | He slipped his arm around her and they walked through the park to sit on a secluded seat there . |
| 11 | She found herself searching back to her youth for reasons to explain the blind and selfish obsessions which had taken hold of her since they arrived in the French tropics and she wondered if her father 's ruin and death by his own hand in the Louisiana cotton slump of 1989 , when she was only two years old , was the root cause . |
| 12 | Alain looked down at her as they came into the hall . |
| 13 | They married in June 1789 , and a month later , in despair and rage , he murdered her as they walked in the darkness to the Castle of Comfort Inn . |
| 14 | In a temperature of nearly ninety degrees , Lindsey was glad she had thought to bring a hat with her as they strolled along the palm-strewn promenade , stopping at one of the many bars to drink a refreshingly cold iced lemonade . |
| 15 | His arm tightened around her as they stepped off the kerb again . |
| 16 | Jack Bryson , the chief cameraman , told her as they waited for the director 's ‘ OK ’ to strike the set , a quizzical grin seaming his weather-beaten face . |
| 17 | Eve , picking up on some of Ari 's melancholy without understanding the cause , hugged her as they thundered along the straight , smooth road that led to the city . |
| 18 | A noisy group of young people passed her as they turned into the cinema . |
| 19 | As he fell into step beside her he took her arm , gently guiding her as they turned into the main street . |
| 20 | ‘ Frightfully kind of you , ’ he said to her as they stood by the kerb . |
| 21 | When he conveyed Sam 's request to her as they sat around the table at tea-time , he was bewildered by his daughter 's reaction ! |
| 22 | Detectives are not sure whether the girl was deliberately kidnapped or if the thieves simply did not notice her when they jumped into the car . |
| 23 | Marler challenged him as they walked across the lobby . |
| 24 | ‘ They 'd care as little about him as they cared about the two bombers who died in the van . ’ |
| 25 | This sound , tautening to the pitch of a screech , interrupted Davide 's growing up ; it had frightened children like him as they played in the streets , but sent a shiver through them that also excited them . |
| 26 | Hyman hustled him into a car and , having come prepared with a flask , poured coffee into him as they drove to the studio . |
| 27 | ‘ This is n't for research , as such , ’ she told him as they moved along the rows of apparatus . |
| 28 | The back of the awesome figure caught in the dying rays of the flare was holding a kicking man high above his head , throwing him as they watched over the side and into the sea . |
| 29 | She cuddled in close to him as they tore along the highway . |
| 30 | They bought half excuse me half of it and they lived in the basement , then the other half came up for sale so Peter bought the whole lot then |