Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They clung together in the waiting room outside Sarah 's office and Maureen told her what Tony had said . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | At the same time the woman moved , incredibly quickly — ; she seemed to glide quite upright , and they met just beyond the platform roof in the sunlight . |
| 5 | They met separately from the authority and shared a common ‘ soft Left ’ platform of views on the future of the NHS . |
| 6 | When the counsellors were ready , they met again with the king and agreed their proposals . |
| 7 | Their friendship blossomed when they met again at the funeral and developed into a love that was to stretch across forty years of marriage . |
| 8 | They met daily in the half-light , at three o'clock in the morning , just before milking . |
| 9 | As they got closer to the centre they appeared to change colour . |
| 10 | I 'm still convinced they got away at the end of the movie . |
| 11 | As they got away from the school he straightened up . |
| 12 | Although Gil Robles and a sincere ‘ Social-Catholic ’ minority within the CEDA were anxious to demonstrate their reforming credentials , and thereby to retain the loyalty of their own peasant supporters , with a programme aimed at converting rural tenants into property-owners , they got nowhere in the face of opposition from monarchists and the reactionary majority of their own party . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | And they all , they got up in the morning and I was n't home still |
| 15 | They finished their drinks and as they got up from the table Fernando plucked a sprig of jasmine from the pergola . |
| 16 | But it quickly vanished as they got on with the morning 's proceedings . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The traffic into Belfast was heavy , and it was a while before they got on to the motorway . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 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 | They would chat away to her about their day until they got down to the schoolwork . |
| 23 | Well they got down in the grass you see . |
| 24 | When they got out of the cab she could not shake him off . |
| 25 | They got out of the truck . |
| 26 | If they got out of the plane , they will probably be hiding now and trying to make their way back . |
| 27 | Insects buzzed in the hot night as they got out of the moke . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | They got out of the car and his Dad rang the door-bell of number forty-five . |
| 30 | As they got out of the car and walked across the yard , their feet scrunching on the stones , Jinny had a queer feeling that they were being watched . |