Example sentences of "they [vb past] the [adj] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 But his reckoning was good : they skimmed the British trench system and raced across the ruptured wastes of no-man's-land exactly opposite the given map reference .
2 I think the Germans had been after ‘ Salt Peter ’ , but they got the empty coal yard and one or two small buses instead .
3 They made the front roll bar so much stiffer that the cars understeered out of the race with the front tyres worn out .
4 They 're all covered with smoke and grime left over from before they passed the Clean Air Bill , and the only place that might once have looked good is the Methodist Chapel at Southwark that 's been taken over by Fundamentalists .
5 As they passed the silent Salvation Inn , Yanto glanced to the left at the Murchison house .
6 Although many Carlists and Falangists naturally disliked the Unification , with their fighting men busy at the front there was little they could do to resist it , especially since they shared the general Nationalist respect for ‘ authority ’ .
7 In particular , they avoided the straight-line exit route to Hormuz from , say , Kuwait which inevitably ran through the Iranian zone .
8 Paula was tense as they approached the German frontier post beyond Echternach in Luxembourg .
9 They approached the blank stone wall .
10 When they built the new Strensham northbound services they thought big .
11 But they maintained the traditional Republican hostility to " big " government , and promised to reduce government spending and government intervention in ordinary people 's lives .
12 But they regarded the simple wartime orientation of the neutralisation regime as insufficient in the post-Second-World-War era .
13 They entered the pure search industry much more recently , and still offer their previous range of services .
14 Later when there were large sailing ships they used the deep water channel as far as Kingston-upon-Hull but they docked in the River Hull to unload their cargoes and the goods were carried inland by barges on the rivers to Selby , York , Beverley and Gainsborough .
15 That would explain why they used the International Herald Tribune in the photograph .
16 William did n't know what it was — flood or earthquake , drought or famine , or a combination of all four — but they moved , and they took the fleas and the bacilli with them , and somewhere in their travels they encountered the black rat rattus rattus , and the drama began to move along a bit , because rattus rattus was a vagabond and a great little mover .
17 In Hamburg they visited the aged poet Klopstock , who had welcomed the Revolution but subsequently renounced the French .
18 Straight after that they played the main Mill team , and again turned out comfortable winners with a 3 .
19 On the other hand the open villages , because they attracted the surplus labour force , contained workers on depressed wages who could ill afford rents which would make housing improvements profitable .
20 They told the remaining post office staff not to raise the alarm for another thirty minutes .
21 In addition they estimated the implied income tax brackets associated with each dividend payout level .
22 Then , with headlamps full on , they joined the main tarmacadam coast road .
23 They joined the National Literacy Campaign , an enormously successful initiative , which achieved a dramatic increase in literacy rates .
24 Together they opened the big family Bible and put a key on a page .
25 They claimed the private hospital development would have a negligible effect on residents .
26 They showed the narrow dirt towpath , the black water , the broken windows of empty warehouses …
27 In 1902 they climbed the marvellous Bosigran Ridge .
28 One day then they discovered the old apple orchard , what does that mean ?
29 And they heard the Prime Minister pay tribute to them when they sat in on Question Time .
30 In the hush that followed they heard the back door slam .
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