Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes a head-on collision with a lorry seems inevitable , but somehow at the last moment we or they swerve out of the way . |
| 2 | There are no hotel bills , they chip in for the petrol and food and everybody 's happy . ’ |
| 3 | However , they clung on to a victory which served to rekindle hopes among the travelling support that all was not lost after all in the title race , especially after news leaked through of Rangers ' demise at Celtic Park . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | After their terribly exciting bridge crossing , they hopped back over the shallows and headed back to their mini-van . |
| 6 | At one point they met up with a lorry laden with Coke which had been stuck for over three weeks in knee deep mud . |
| 7 | Here they met up with a team from the Combined Operations base in the Suez Canal Zone , with two canoe parties under Lieutenant Robert Smith RN . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | And they all , they got up in the morning and I was n't home still |
| 11 | They finished their drinks and as they got up from the table Fernando plucked a sprig of jasmine from the pergola . |
| 12 | But it quickly vanished as they got on with the morning 's proceedings . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The traffic into Belfast was heavy , and it was a while before they got on to the motorway . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | They got on like a house on fire and did n't stop talking afterwards — it was Julian and Robert who wound each other up . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Morag and Mary were two such women and we never ceased to wonder at the amount of work they got through in a day . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | before they got down to the autographs . |
| 23 | They would chat away to her about their day until they got down to the schoolwork . |
| 24 | Well they got down in the grass you see . |
| 25 | ‘ The SS went to a great deal of trouble on the public relations side : there was background music , lorries ready to transport women , children and the infirm , while prisoners were at hand to act as porters ; in short an atmosphere of relative welcome greeted the Jews when they got out of the cattle trucks … ’ |
| 26 | When they got out of the cab she could not shake him off . |
| 27 | They got out of the truck . |
| 28 | If they got out of the plane , they will probably be hiding now and trying to make their way back . |
| 29 | Insects buzzed in the hot night as they got out of the moke . |
| 30 | Cheerfully they got out of the car into the open day and went down the rocks to the strand and then out to the tideline . |