Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wondered whether to tell the four of them seated there about the death of Dr Kemp , for they 'd have to know very soon anyway . |
| 2 | After that everything between them became easy for the time being . |
| 3 | Sometimes the clerics among them met separately from the laymen . |
| 4 | In Philip Burton 's version , from then on , all was sweetness ; Richard occasionally went back to the house of Cis and Elfed ( on Sunday mornings ) and the two of them got on with the transformation of the street boy into the stage man . |
| 5 | But today there was the picnic , and who could tell what would happen once the four of them got in amongst the pine coverts of Ham Park . |
| 6 | Both of them got out on the restaurant floor , but Pavel carried on down to the entrance lobby . |
| 7 | He was an Edinburgh solicitor who had two houses , two cars and had commuted between two women before one of them found out about the other . |
| 8 | Billy took one of the baskets from Molly , and the three of them wandered on through the wood . |
| 9 | Turbin lights and they were for use of coastal command of the RAF first searchlighting for submarines , looking for submarines , the er the Harvards were very much trained as some of them came in from the Navy they were used for training landing of pilots on aircraft carriers , and they had hooks underneath you know the er they were a very good trainer they were still used today , but when we used to go and see films at the pictures they used to use them a lot as Japanese aircraft because they looked alike , and they used to use them as zeros in the American films these Harvard trainers , er and but like as I said they had a experimental department at Helliwells and they used to try out various things to see if they could improve on the structure or the instrumentation things like that |
| 10 | A good many boys and girls had joined the crowd now and shouts of laughter broke out as a few of them came out from the gate in the kitchen-garden wall , their hands full of ripe peaches , their chins dripping with juice . |
| 11 | Yes and and then when the lifeboat came , the Eday and and Sanday and them a lot of them came across for the dances , the lifeboat dances , it was really I would say the best time |
| 12 | The fact that so many of them played together for the Lions will be an important help . ’ |
| 13 | The difference between the two of them showed up in The Waste , Land drafts . |
| 14 | At luncheon all four of them fetched up in the saloon bar of The Rose and Crown . |
| 15 | ( In some of the harsh villages of the hinterland , the sheets of the bridal night were still unfurled on the morning after ; the spots on them displayed heraldically from the balcony of the house . ) |
| 16 | His white-gloved hands played possum on the desk-top until one of them walked across to the baton , picked it up and hit the desk-top a sharp blow . |
| 17 | The three of them walked back to the village . |
| 18 | The three of them trooped out into the hallway . |
| 19 | They were flying the Liberators in for the big daylight raids on the Ruhr and one of them flew straight into the field where Grandad was working , planting carrots for the war effort . |
| 20 | Many of them worked late into the night with their files and their problems of decisions , or if they were in the Judicature , their judgements . |
| 21 | All three of them stared silently at the walls . |
| 22 | The two of them stared aimlessly into the distance . |
| 23 | Nkrumah dealt with the rebels by expelling 81 CPP members ; many of them drifted over to the NPP . |
| 24 | Dzerzhinsky discovered 2,583 unused railway-trucks there ( some of them sent on from the Volga and dumped , as has been seen ) . |
| 25 | Many of them grew up during the student revolution of the 1960s when an extraordinary hostility to wealth , power and respectability came to dominate a generation . |
| 26 | The guard who had brought them went up beside the chair , knelt and spoke quietly to Bruce in a language Corbett could not understand and guessed that it was probably Gaelic , a language totally alien to him . |
| 27 | And the three of them went deeper into the darkness of the tunnel . |
| 28 | selection of them went all over the world collecting trees . |
| 29 | They clung together in the waiting room outside Sarah 's office and Maureen told her what Tony had said . |
| 30 | As for the three goblins , they crept back to the king of the vookodlaks and he beat them all , and made them stand on their heads in the mud for three years and thirty days . |