Example sentences of "they all [verb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The festivities started with a parade through the town led by the Houlton Silver Band and as I looked down from the windows of our bed-sitter I could see them all gathering in the street below . |
| 2 | It came in mid-morning , and brought them all slipping through the branches and the coarse grass to lie hidden on either side the narrowing of the path with their bows strung and their shafts fitted , listening for the soft thudding of hooves that came as a reverberation along the ground rather than a sound . |
| 3 | For two pins I 'd send them all crashing to the bottom . |
| 4 | She 'd be real surprised to see them all sat round the table looking so happy . |
| 5 | Instead of telephoning him at work to blame or to demand attention for herself , she responded to the emergency and visited the office with soup and sandwiches to keep them all going through the evening . |
| 6 | Kevin Brown had them all brought to the kitchen where lamps were lit . |
| 7 | The Bellman himself they all praised to the skies — |
| 8 | That used to be with er a piece of net in and across the top used to have two piece of wire , one way , and two piece the other and you catch a crab open the crab open and they used to put the crab between there and the whelks used to feed on the crab and then when you pulled it out , they all went to the bottom of the net . |
| 9 | The waiting silence was broken by , ‘ I 'd say the train is leaving Carrick now , ’ and they all went to the fields behind the house to catch a glimpse of the train as it passed . |
| 10 | ‘ And I was the last man off of 17,000 because I was still in the bus when they all went to the start . ’ |
| 11 | Yes , but they all went into the factories did n't they ? |
| 12 | And then they all went down the drain when you came to Nottingham . |
| 13 | Cor , there was boxes of brand new tools come down there , spanners , and they used to be the , like these , like a big chopper , well they used to have couple of all with erm breezed up with erm like greaseproof paper over 'em , bag 'em up into the holds , guns , there was guns , what done with the guns they hit the er , just near the barrel or the trigger , th they used to flatten them out so they could n't use 'em but they all went in the ships bombs , or little shells they used to find in there , all scrap iron . |
| 14 | One day just after breakfast they all gathered in the milk-house . |
| 15 | After tea that day they all gathered in the kitchen and Mum brought out two great big bags full of dry brown stuff that she bought in the flower shop . |
| 16 | All the aquariums house bogwood with the Plecs , as they all graze on the wood , and it does seem to constitute an important part of their diet . |
| 17 | ‘ They all died in the blood and muck . ’ |
| 18 | They all looked at the president , and then at General Vashinov . |
| 19 | They all looked across the road as they heard their father call . |
| 20 | Then they all stared at the passages that radiated off the control-room . |
| 21 | They all stared at the needle stuck in one place while the record continued to revolve . |
| 22 | Erm , I know three blind mice , three blind mice , three blind mice , see how they run , see how they run , they all run after the farmer 's wife , he cut off their tails with a carving knife , have you ever seen such a thing in your life , three blind mice |
| 23 | It was another one of the tower rooms , with a semi-circle of windows giving on to the mountains , and for a moment they all halted on the threshold , too stunned to move by the sight of the magnificent blaze of the setting sun throwing the snow-covered peaks into relief . |
| 24 | One time that used to be further in the dock and I used to be let the erm , the manager know , the pool manager , cos at one time before the war , dockers were erm casual and when the war started , then they thought theirself , right we 're gon na make er dockers more or less permanent , so they all come under the Ipswich Dock Commission then . |
| 25 | But he 'll go on applying the skills learnt on those days in the Nottingham library to a wider cricketing canvas , and using that cast accumulated knowledge to enlighten others — not least the thousands of schoolchildren who visit Trent Bridge in parties each year : ‘ Last season we had several hundred children through on the day when Derek Randall needed one run to complete his 20,000 for the county — and I made certain they all knew about the landmark . |
| 26 | But I could tell no more than I have written here and I think they all knew from the start it was hopeless . |
| 27 | They all groan under the weight of books needed for the current volume . |
| 28 | They all shrink in the direction of the diameter of the circle — the vertical direction if you 're standing on the Earth . |
| 29 | They all got into the train , though Dean 's idea had been to head for Epping , but it was as well to be on the safe side . |
| 30 | They all insist on the centrality of Jesus , but incline then to explain that centrality in terms of something more general or universal , which is thought of as exemplified in him , and then as spreading out from him and moving on through history . |