Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Both of them got out on the restaurant floor , but Pavel carried on down to the entrance lobby . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Billy took one of the baskets from Molly , and the three of them wandered on through the wood . |
| 6 | 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 |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | The difference between the two of them showed up in The Waste , Land drafts . |
| 9 | At luncheon all four of them fetched up in the saloon bar of The Rose and Crown . |
| 10 | The three of them walked back to the village . |
| 11 | The three of them trooped out into the hallway . |
| 12 | Nkrumah dealt with the rebels by expelling 81 CPP members ; many of them drifted over to the NPP . |
| 13 | Dzerzhinsky discovered 2,583 unused railway-trucks there ( some of them sent on from the Volga and dumped , as has been seen ) . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | After their terribly exciting bridge crossing , they hopped back over the shallows and headed back to their mini-van . |
| 18 | When they met up with the rest of the Carlisle Flint team Kate tried to ignore the studiously impassive face of Mike Booker as he greeted her . |
| 19 | Nelson had planned to take her to town , but when they got up to the car park he could n't get his car to start . |
| 20 | And they all , they got up in the morning and I was n't home still |
| 21 | They finished their drinks and as they got up from the table Fernando plucked a sprig of jasmine from the pergola . |
| 22 | But it quickly vanished as they got on with the morning 's proceedings . |
| 23 | They got on to the airfield that night and started to place their bombs , but as the aircraft were widely dispersed , this took time in the dark . |
| 24 | They got on to the field without difficulty in the middle of a bombing raid by the RAF on Benghazi , and sat there while their leader gave them a lecture on deer-stalking in the Highlands . |
| 25 | The traffic into Belfast was heavy , and it was a while before they got on to the motorway . |
| 26 | Before they got on to the subject of the commune they had been discussing which item of Hilbert 's former property they should sell next . |
| 27 | I 'm anxious to know how they got on in the woods because Otley 's always nice going in and nasty when we 're coming out . |
| 28 | Well we 've talked football , we 've talked speedway , we 're now going to talk rugby , because if you 've been following the exploits of the Bicester Rugby Club , you 'll know they got through to the semi-finals of a big national competition , and they play that semi-final this coming Saturday . |
| 29 | Hurley had not forgiven him for the loss of Syrian George , and he was still under heavy pressure from Washington to show results , but in general Coleman made sure they got along for the sake of his back-channel reports to MC/10 Control . |
| 30 | before they got down to the autographs . |