Example sentences of "they and [adv] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And perhaps , she decided , being realistic , as long as she did not let things go too far it would do her no harm to stop trying to resist them and simply go with the flow of her feelings for a while . |
| 2 | However , most boards tended to extract material when it suited them and rarely adhered to the time-scale or suggestions for different kinds of activity . |
| 3 | The initial setting up could be carried out by them and then circularised to the nearest branches some time before September in order for the most capable branch to make an offer for the franchise . |
| 4 | For some time she looked round the garden for them and then went into the house . |
| 5 | They both glanced behind them and then moved into the coloured shadows of the necromancer 's storeroom . |
| 6 | Gilbert had been standing next to them and almost fell down the stairs in his efforts to get away from those doors as something shouldered them open . |
| 7 | There were thousands of the creatures flying above them and ominously silhouetted on the witch trees at the edge of the plain . |
| 8 | Our fathers slept with their Browning Army-issue pistols beside them and sometimes rushed into the starry African night , blazing away at burglars we never saw . |