Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More of them got in on the industrial act — Sri Lanka was the latest brave new industrializing country , while India finally took off as a major supplier of iron and steel on the global stage . |
| 2 | Maisie pushed Robert towards the stairs , and the two of them moved down towards the crowded entrance hall . |
| 3 | Then the three of them swam away into the deeper water under the headland . |
| 4 | Matthew and Sara and the children with them came out of the old woods into the new plantation , where rows of conifers , dark green , were interplanted with small spindly brighter green beeches . |
| 5 | She would n't be a real Brownie if she flew home and left them stranded out on the snowy woods . |
| 6 | The town itself is in most respects unremarkable by comparison with its Devon neighbours , and like many of them flourished especially in the seventeenth century , heyday of the West Country cloth trade : when Celia Fiennes passed close by in 1698 , she found all Exeter and the country around making ‘ an incredible quantity of serges ’ which were sent from the port of Topsham to be sold in Europe . |
| 7 | The two of them galloped off down the steep grass bank . |
| 8 | Her voice , which had been raised , as his had been , so as to be heard while one of them walked ahead of the other , died away as they passed down the corridor , presumably en route to bed . |
| 9 | The two of them leapt out of the beached cockboat and strode up past the fishwives , some of whom gave him a " good day " but most of whom preserved a surly silence . |
| 10 | sadly , most of them fell well below the acceptable level of quality . |
| 11 | Mind , she did n't go out this afternoon cos they went , some of them went up to the British Legion Club this afternoon . |
| 12 | His kiss was whole and complete and her world was whole and complete as their passion erupted and they clung together as the liquid fire inside them flowed furiously in its blazing release . |
| 13 | In September , when Edward had any spare time and Helen was free from work , they met frequently at the National Gallery , where they examined minutely Greek male and female statues , or at Janet 's lodgings . |
| 14 | At Podromanija they met up with the Swedish relief convoy of 10 trucks , 9½ being filled with food and the remainder with medical supplies . |
| 15 | The children marched down the stairs , the nun coming behind , and in the hall they met up with the older girls and , now forming two files , they walked , hands joined as if in prayer , slowly along a corridor , and into the chapel . |
| 16 | ‘ They met again at the same hotel . |
| 17 | They gazed down at the innocent football being kicked back and forth against the wall outside , the thwack of the ball booming in the street amongst the traffic noise . |
| 18 | Eventually , they got around to the main purpose of the visit . |
| 19 | A team of researchers from Bristol University was commissioned to examine what the YTS had to offer young black people and to indicate how they got on during the first six months of the scheme ( S. Fenton , Ethnic Minorities and the Youth Training Scheme Research and Development Series , no. 20 , MSC , 1984 ) . |
| 20 | Gone are the days when professionals left the business of fees , commissions , variation charges , reimbursables and the rest to underlings whilst they got on with the interesting work . |
| 21 | The 1993 event started in York on 14 February and we will report on how they got on in the next issue . |
| 22 | Slowly , they got together at the far end of the house and whispered to each other . |
| 23 | And erm , after that they got down to the serious business ! |
| 24 | It was only when they got down to the particular that problems arose . |
| 25 | And they got out at the very top . ’ |
| 26 | They would drink that in some of these pubs and , of course , as soon as they got out in the fresh air , it hit them and they were away . |
| 27 | They lived briefly in the great camps round and about , and then vanished . |
| 28 | As they rode out of the low narrow gate , their knees banging , their heads ducked , the other monks were mustering for the Holy Office of Vespers . |
| 29 | They rode out of the stable yard . |
| 30 | 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 . |