Example sentences of "[adv] they [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 When I put in darker clouds using a gel to keep the paint mixture stiff they lay gently on the damp paper , forming soft edges as they dried instead of the hard patches which otherwise would have destroyed the luminous envelope .
2 Those of us who have had reason to spend even a short time in a hospital will appreciate how much they look forward to the day that they can return home , even though their period spent in the hospital may have been made as pleasant as possible by exemplary care .
3 and they apparently they look very to the wall .
4 Perhaps they fitted together with the protuberances of one party fitting into the hollows of the other to make a perfect whole .
5 So they walked out of the dark cave into the bright sunshine .
6 So they got in on the scene and I seen young men that was walking the streets that had nowt to do put a football kit on with G M B written across the front turn out and become super human beings , you never seen nowt like it , they were so pleased to associate with like something like that .
7 As their numbers grew so they spread out from the areas still occupied and the abandoned warrens slowly began to be reoccupied .
8 So they escaped down into the village .
9 I think this is because they do n't practice being feminine with the boys around and so they get on with the work more .
10 Erm it allows domestic farmers to produce their so they go on to the world market and they 've got everybody else these things
11 And so they come back to the land of Moab and make their way to Bethlehem .
12 So they rode on through the twilight , the guides either side of Johnson soothing him forward .
13 So they jumped out of the window on to the fire escape — and kicked in an outside door to get back into the studio at Beacon Radio , Wolverhampton .
14 So they stand cheerfully by the carriage window revealing in loud voices the personal secrets of the wretched traveller , who winces as he realizes that he has to travel two hundred miles with a carriage full of strangers who know his family history , how prone he is to chills if he wears a damp vest , what he has to do when he arrives at his destination .
15 Together they rode along in the dark , Tess holding on to Alec .
16 Then together they walked out into the garden and up the path .
17 And then together they walked out to the Toyota .
18 Joe got to his feet and he stood with his head bent as Mick retrieved his things ; then slowly he joined him , and together they walked back through the wood , silent now , until they reached the drive There , holding out his hand , Mick said , ‘ You 'll be all right now .
19 ‘ You worry too much , my friend , ’ he said , and together they walked back into the house .
20 An equally elaborate railway headquarters was built across the road , and together they owed more to the Mughal style in India than to any local architectural forms .
21 At Portsmouth , Crabb was met by a local MI6 officer , using the cover name ‘ Bernard Smith ’ , and together they booked in at the Sallyport Hotel where ‘ Smith ’ gave his address as ‘ c/o Foreign Office , London ’ .
22 Together they went back inside the villa .
23 Together they went out into the back garden .
24 Together they worked swiftly through the rest of the queue until at last the flow stopped and the little shop was empty .
25 ‘ If you 'd like to unfasten Rip van Winkle , I 'll get the buggy from the boot , ’ he offered , and together they climbed out into the now steady downpour .
26 Similarly , although the works clubs which are in charge of workplace negotiations in Sweden are sub-organisations of the branches of the national unions and less loosely linked to union organisation than the equivalent shop steward system in Britain ( at least before the expansion of single-employer bargaining ) , nevertheless they act independently of the branch and national union headquarters .
27 Just when you expect them to lash into some wicked rockabilly they come out with the Radio 4 theme music soundalike of ‘ Mala Femmina ’ .
28 Just when you expect them to lash into some wicked rockabilly they come out with the Radio 4 theme music soundalike of ‘ Mala Femmina ’ .
29 They worked well together and soon they tied up at the town quay .
30 You had to meet these people , Wilcock would explain , and thus they went off on the 31 bus to meet the Trinidadian .
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