Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The patrol took some prisoners and drove through the lines until they met up with a British unit , who refused to believe they were who they said they were . |
| 2 | In the end I was burgled , and they got away with a large number of the works that I kept stored . |
| 3 | And they got away with a large quantity of tools and car batteries . |
| 4 | And then there is this long-standing relationship between Martinez and Jefferson , and the dirty work they got up to a few years ago . |
| 5 | Before the members of the cast separated to check out of their lodgings on that last night of the provincial tour before moving in for a run at a West End theatre they got together for a few drinks on stage . |
| 6 | They got off to a great start when they almost scored after just two and a half minutes , when Jim Magilton fed Lee Nogan , and his left foot shot was brilliantly saved by Eric Torsvale , tipping the ball all round the post for a corner . |
| 7 | They got off to a blinder against the Sharks … catching them napping repeatedly in the first period to put six past them . |
| 8 | Darlington won 20–15 at North Durham , where they got off to a flying start with two tries in the first 20 minutes by winger Martin Bewick and flanker Paul Barkes . |
| 9 | But the Signpost Hotel Guide survey of 300 hotel owners showed that fewer people are bothering use a false name when they book in for an illicit weekend . |
| 10 | The French and Russian revolutions had made an enormous contribution in their time to human progress , but they lived today in a different world in which universal human values must have priority . |
| 11 | They lived together for a long time ; she bore him children — who took after their mother and turned out to be demons too . |
| 12 | Tendrils from the two black shapes reached out to entwine with each other , pulling their cores closer together until , as Ace watched in amazement , they melded together into a single muscular column of flesh crowned with thorns . |
| 13 | They rode on at an easy trot , eating up the ground , until finally Murtach said in disgust : ‘ Bragad 's lady — out for a ride , it seems , with five of her husband 's escort for company . ’ |
| 14 | Mystified , they rode eastwards at a great pace , Ramsay for one not ungrateful to be done with the restraints of keeping to the pace of marching men . |
| 15 | They sit together in a non-smoking section . |
| 16 | To take an extreme illustrative case , one can imagine a situation where broadly similar relationships exist between direct land-users ( pastoralists or peasants ) and other groups and the state , and they develop historically in a steep-sloped area and in a plains area nearby . |
| 17 | in the first division its Oxford against Millwall at the Manor … it 's only four weeks since they fought out at a two all draw at the Den … |
| 18 | And they make up for a curtailed visual field by being able to rotate their heads through 180° . |
| 19 | Sophisticated higher-level procedures must prune these perfect , accidental word matches before they combine exponentially into a huge space of alternative partial interpretations . |
| 20 | They grow opposite on a dark green , purple-tinged stem . |
| 21 | They may seem a lot , but in fact they fit easily into a single bag . |
| 22 | Our first aim , therefore , is to isolate significant typical events and units of social life and activity , and then to probe for the underlying blueprint , often implicit rather than explicit , that will show how they fit together into a meaningful pattern . |
| 23 | Lindsey was n't entirely sure she 'd agree as they moved on to a gleaming operating theatre . |
| 24 | They moved on through a silent , sleeping village , only a few plumes of black smoke giving any sign of life . |
| 25 | They moved cautiously along a dimly-lit passage until they reached the steep narrow ladder that descended to the next level . |
| 26 | They interact together in a continuous , incredibly complex and unpredictable process . |
| 27 | Once the pioneers of a new level of development were given the chance to flourish , they radiated out into a whole range of orders and families to take advantage of all the various possible means of gaining a livelihood . |
| 28 | They built up from a working |
| 29 | The windows of the car were open and they hummed along at a steady cruising speed meeting very little traffic . |
| 30 | From the library they staggered forth with a querulous shout of " Yah , Boney ! " |