Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] [prep] the [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just after 0800hrs they swooped down on the closely parked Curtiss P–36s and P–40s . |
| 2 | After an initial success in 1964 over ‘ royalty expensing ’ , an element in the intricate mechanics of computing concessionaires ' tax liability which gained OPEC members some extra cents of revenue per bbl , they moved on to the earnestly disputed negotiating rounds in Tripoli and Tehran in 1971 . |
| 3 | The second and third generations ( the generations of my informants ) have not simply reproduced the class stratification of the Caribbean region , nor have they merged seamlessly into the already existing class strata of British society . |
| 4 | Braving storms and great creatures of the deep including the whale shark , they sailed hopefully for the most romantic of destinations , a coral island , and succeeded . |
| 5 | Apart from the greater urban houses , they spread out into the more rural areas . |
| 6 | They meet regularly in the newly built Chinese community centre . |
| 7 | Yanto asked , as they climbed down into the half empty hold of the ‘ Marit ’ . |
| 8 | ‘ If you 'd like to unfasten Rip van Winkle , I 'll get the buggy from the boot , ’ he offered , and together they climbed out into the now steady downpour . |
| 9 | In the latter , agents are organizationally rewarded by how well they measure up to the relatively concrete criteria provided by the enforcement process . |
| 10 | They are fed in onto this global trunk circuit erm from many feeder lines , sometimes by radio , sometimes by telephone , but they get in onto the very high-speed trunk circuit , and of those eight and half thousand observations made every hour , it takes between four and five minutes for six and half thousand of them to reach us at Bracknell . |
| 11 | But as soon as they move to hearsay they lapse immediately into the purely fantastic , and the stuff of which their fantasies are constructed is lifted direct from mythology . |
| 12 | The formation of the commercial basis of the kingdoms is not uniform and geography must have played an important part in the speed with which they evolved out of the less commercial exchanges of primitive valuables between earlier corporate descent groups and cohesive political units . |
| 13 | The fact that they tapped in to the rapidly expanding European market undoubtedly helped the giant US firms to offset some of the effects of slow domestic growth . |
| 14 | The tide was ebbing , and they went down on the steeply shelving bed of the Conway . |
| 15 | They looked just like the Dead raised to life on Judgement Day , brought out of their graves and tombs , or cast up by the sea as it dried up utterly . |
| 16 | They do not for the most part take a position like that of Boas and Evans-Pritchard which rejects the very notion that there are general laws governing human history ; and if they do not , it would seem that they too are driving , however cautiously , towards an understanding of human history in general , in other words toward a theory of human evolution . |
| 17 | Does he agree that when Opposition parties advocate such bodies they do so with the entirely cynical objective of maintaining the over-representation of Scotland in this House in the aftermath of the dog 's breakfast called devolution ? |
| 18 | They burst in on the somewhat startled signalman who was puzzled by the dramatic appearance of the two familiar faces . |
| 19 | These disbursements do not worry the senior partner in a large firm who makes £40,000 or more a year net , but they fall heavily upon the less successful . |
| 20 | But Belinda says they ended up in the far from deserted capital of Rarotonga . |