Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One of them opened up with a chopper . |
| 2 | When a group of them walked up to a bar , they would reach into their clothes , and the last one to catch a louse had to buy . |
| 3 | If lots of them signed up at a creditors ' meeting in London on May 27th , that could be decided quickly . |
| 4 | They contributed because on the one hand , they were asked and understood that what they had to say was important , and also because too many of them grew up in a world without such books . |
| 5 | When she allowed him to ‘ catch ’ her , the two of them rolled about on a pile of hessian rope , screeching and laughing , until David reminded Cissie that she was ‘ a young lady of certain years ’ and that Richard should remember how he had only been allowed to come to the docks on the understanding that he be on his ‘ best behaviour ’ . |
| 6 | She went straight into the kitchen , and automatically made them both a cup of coffee , a mutual family ritual when one of them went out to a meeting . |
| 7 | However , they clung on to a victory which served to rekindle hopes among the travelling support that all was not lost after all in the title race , especially after news leaked through of Rangers ' demise at Celtic Park . |
| 8 | At one point they met up with a lorry laden with Coke which had been stuck for over three weeks in knee deep mud . |
| 9 | Here they met up with a team from the Combined Operations base in the Suez Canal Zone , with two canoe parties under Lieutenant Robert Smith RN . |
| 10 | They got on like a house on fire and did n't stop talking afterwards — it was Julian and Robert who wound each other up . |
| 11 | Morag and Mary were two such women and we never ceased to wonder at the amount of work they got through in a day . |
| 12 | Round and round , they rode on in a frenzy , Boadicea just smiled and drank wine |
| 13 | They made off with a video recorder , music centre and jewellery from the property in Turker Lane . |
| 14 | They made off with a television and a video recorder worth £550 . |
| 15 | Five hundred copies were produced , and Miles believes they sold out within an hour . |
| 16 | They clammed up after a bit and would n't show me everything , but he thinks I put it all in the water hoping Harry would get tangled in it . ’ |
| 17 | then they moved down to the house opposite the green in front of the church which I think the now live in next to the , Janet and Peter , that house and then they moved up to a bungalow . |
| 18 | Scotland Yard said shots were fired at anti-terrorist squad detectives and a tactical firearms unit as they moved in on a house in Stoke Newington , north London . |
| 19 | Most items in these suites were designed to contrast one with another by varied time signatures , tempi and phrasing so that they built up to a climax which , in the early days , signalled the entrance of the king or the most important participant . |
| 20 | For half an hour they followed the telltale red blotches until finally they petered out in a glade surrounded by dense thickets of thorn and bamboo . |
| 21 | They drew up with a rasp of gravel just behind the trailer , and Sergeant Allen 's head popped out as if on a string . |
| 22 | There was something in the speed , as they rounded corners on two wheels , that shook her out of her bad mood , and when they drew up with a squeal of brakes in the narrow road just by Pepe 's Bar , she was laughing at Miguel 's uncharacteristic recklessness . |
| 23 | They staggered on for a year or two after that , but Tesco 's had a big , big change of policy they were no longer high and kick them out cheap , they decided to promote a quality in which stamps did not go for and erm |
| 24 | Two of my brothers used to be car mechanics and would use ANYTHING washing up liquid , bleach , industrial strength cleaner to get those tell-tale oily fingernails clean before they ventured out on a date . |
| 25 | They drove on through a tunnel and then the landscape became more arid . |
| 26 | As they drove back from a barbecue the bee stung Rod 's arm . |
| 27 | They came up with a vision of work that offered them a challenge , was interesting and in which they were in charge . |
| 28 | Between them they came up with a pile of notes and coins . |
| 29 | Er , however erm because of the concern about er the overall cost of the programme and the production cost in nineteen ninety two , we required er the companies to undertake studies into ways of reducing the programme cost and it was as a result of those studies , that they came up with a list of potential savings er which in the U K case er could knock fourteen percent off the price that they had quoted in April ninety two . |
| 30 | By not only relieving David Gower of the captaincy , which was inevitable , but omitting him altogether the selectors provoked an uproar ; they came up with a party that had only two specialist openers , an inexperienced middle order , and some fast bowlers who were virtually untried , injury-prone and had a reputation for speed but not accuracy . |