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 . |