Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Luckily they got out with minor burns , but that could have been very serious . |
| 2 | Well he said tha , they were cooking it on like on site on the caravan site , he said an , an , and you know , they got out of this caravan and then |
| 3 | And he half hopped and half flew up the rough beach , stopping frequently to see that she was following , until with a final struggle they got back to safe rocks along the cliffs over the tideline . |
| 4 | And me mother , she lived at , that 's not far from Peterborough , and she er Me father used to go to this here farm , me mother lived , and of course they got in with each other , then they got married and then they wanted to buy a caravan . |
| 5 | Yet , embittered pigeons have a great tendency to come home to roost at a later date , wreaking merry havoc as they zoom in on perceived injustices and ensure that all and sundry realise the iniquities of their previous employer . |
| 6 | The king 's son mounted his horse again , and they rode on for seven days , until they came to the islands of the Black Sea , where there is such darkness that a spoon might stand up in it . |
| 7 | Then the guides lured a barking deer , with the sound of a pipe they made out of half-split bamboo . |
| 8 | They made off with nine birds worth a total of £180 from a house in Studley Road . |
| 9 | They made off with nine birds worth a total of £180 from a house in Studley Road . |
| 10 | They made off with nine birds worth a total of £180 from a house in Studley Road . |
| 11 | They made off with nine birds worth a total of £180 from a house in Studley Road . |
| 12 | They made off with nine birds worth a total of £180 from a house in Studley Road . |
| 13 | They made off with nine birds worth a total of £180 from a house in Studley Road . |
| 14 | They made off with nine birds worth a total of £180 from a house in Studley Road . |
| 15 | They made off with nine birds worth a total of £180 from a house in Studley Road . |
| 16 | They made off with nine birds worth a total of £180 from a house in Studley Road . |
| 17 | They sit up with disproportionate interest . ) |
| 18 | and they absconded it , and the dog has n't a hope in hell and also the ones you get for the kids , when you sit in them they sit up like little chairs do n't they ? |
| 19 | Here is William Wheeler , the last great encyclopediast of ants ( 1910 ) , describing Amazon ants at home : they sit about in stolid idleness , or pass the long hours begging the slaves for food or cleaning themselves and burnishing their ruddy armour . |
| 20 | They hatch out in 3–4 weeks and the larvae bore into the wood . |
| 21 | ‘ I think all criminals know what to expect if they monkey about with other people 's motorcars . ’ |
| 22 | They flock along to in-service courses . |
| 23 | Nicolas Tredell has said of some New Accents contributors , ‘ despite their ostensible Gallic sympathies , they crash down on French jouissance like a ceiling-full of cold showers . ’ |
| 24 | The Troop Staff Sergeant detailed to supervise the construction was insistently calling the rafts into the head of the bridge , where they coupled on with remarkable rapidity . |
| 25 | Presumably they mean out of this lot . |
| 26 | " And let it be said , " Harry went on , " now we 're talking straight , that Miss Jennifer here can forget all the Romish ideas she was fed on down at Roscarrock Hall and start eating Protestant pie , which she 'll find suits a Cornish stomach a sight better than all that hocus-pocus-nomminy-domminy rubbish they peddle down at Holy Joe 's . |
| 27 | These little sneak fertilizers however are young and small of course , this is what they rely on their enormous of speed for , and they grow up into female mimics or transvestites , and what a transvestite does is when a regular male and a regular female are in the nest swimming around together doing the regular thing , the transvestite swims in , appearing as a second female . |
| 28 | ‘ We bottle things up for years until they grow out of all proportion . ’ |
| 29 | They moved up to 11th place but left London in 17th and last place , without a win this term . |
| 30 | They moved up to 11th place but left London in 17th and last place , without a win this term . |