Example sentences of "[subord] they [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said , ‘ Remember the peasant dance where they came out in the long , hooped skirts and you ca n't see their feet ? |
| 2 | The first tomatoes of the year , firm and cushiony , with tucks where they plumped out around the bottom of the stalk were quartered in their own juice on a dish with oregano and slender crescents of a veined purple onion , sliced with the first stone pressing of olive oil . |
| 3 | All-night parties , Nina dancing in the nude , Modi stumbling into the sketching class very drunk , the weekly visits to the Gaieté Montparnasse , a small , bawdy music-hall where they sat up in the gallery , all paint a happy-go-lucky picture . |
| 4 | I tell the truth , honest I do ! " one was shouting , and it and a few others tugged at the lower edges of the few furs he still had on and pulling on his under-breeches where they appeared out of the top of his boots . |
| 5 | Fear slowed his thoughts , and grudgingly granted him one consolation : at this speed they must come out at the bottom a damn sight faster than they went through at the top . |
| 6 | A restoration lab was set up nearby to treat the bronzes immediately they came out of the water to prevent deterioration . |
| 7 | As the excluded social forces grew in political strength , so they pressed in on the established constitution in ways which eventually caused it to buckle so that it came to be more in line with their views as to how things should be . |
| 8 | Donal Lunny came down , and Gerry O'Beirne and Mary Custy and Eoin O'Neill , my sister Mary , and Adam Calyton , Mike Scott and Steve Wickham had been over in Spiddal at the time , working with John , so they came over for the crack . |
| 9 | She wanted to check on some of her cultures before they left the building , so they went up to the third floor and along a corridor lined with rooms numbered for experimentation and behavioural study . |
| 10 | ‘ So they went up to the village pub and had a few drinks . |
| 11 | They could not open the door , so they climbed down from the roof and got in through the window . |
| 12 | He would n't want anything to do with her once they caught up with the missing pair . |
| 13 | Two mini Margis in the stalls are the target of most of the ad libs , and they respond as if they grew up with the star . |
| 14 | And er Oh and if he If the time of the the er tinkers that they came round , if they came round about the time of the the pig killing they would look for the piece of bacon . |
| 15 | It might be needed if they went out for the day . |
| 16 | Well , I think , I do n't know if they went back to the pits and sort of left , but he did n't want to stay there and and got this job as a gamekeeper . |
| 17 | It would be seven and sixpence for the consultation if they went down to the surgery . |
| 18 | If they got out of the plane , they will probably be hiding now and trying to make their way back . |
| 19 | While Folly was coming uncomfortably to terms with the fact that the reason they had to avoid built-up areas was to avoid too much carnage if they fell out of the sky , Luke turned to the man in the overalls , who was waiting respectfully for them to finish talking . |
| 20 | BNFL chiefs got an injunction against U2 threatening them with arrest if they turned up at the plant gates . |
| 21 | I thought to myself that , however far they had wandered , if they ended up in the body of Leonard Arthur Pike they must be really desperate . |
| 22 | I belonged to that great multitude who could n't help liking Dick Crossman : he and I were always nice to one another , right to the day in 1974 shortly before his death when he came to the Birmingham Bull Ring in acute physical discomfort to hear me advise my fellow-electors to vote Labour if they wanted out of the Common Market . |
| 23 | The WBC have already said they will strip Bowe or Holyfield if they pulled out of the deal with Lewis , who knocked out Donovan ‘ Razor ’ Ruddock 10 days ago . |
| 24 | She slipped through the bushes alongside the sorry procession until they passed in through the lower guard of the castle , and disappeared up the tree-shrouded ramp . |
| 25 | It was not until they came out into the clearing where the lame horse was dismally hobbling amongst the forest grasses that he became aware of what had happened . |
| 26 | They would chat away to her about their day until they got down to the schoolwork . |
| 27 | I watched until they went out of the car park , then I walked slowly to my own car . |
| 28 | But the alarm was n't triggered until they went out through the window . ’ |
| 29 | She was vaguely aware of being guided expertly away from the crowded floor , and it was n't until they stepped out into the cooler night air that she realised how much of a relief it was to leave the noise behind . |
| 30 | Some of Barnet 's players did n't know about Fry 's Friday night re-instatement until they turned up at the ground . |