Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His kiss was whole and complete and her world was whole and complete as their passion erupted and they clung together as the liquid fire inside them flowed furiously in its blazing release . |
| 2 | In September , when Edward had any spare time and Helen was free from work , they met frequently at the National Gallery , where they examined minutely Greek male and female statues , or at Janet 's lodgings . |
| 3 | At Podromanija they met up with the Swedish relief convoy of 10 trucks , 9½ being filled with food and the remainder with medical supplies . |
| 4 | The children marched down the stairs , the nun coming behind , and in the hall they met up with the older girls and , now forming two files , they walked , hands joined as if in prayer , slowly along a corridor , and into the chapel . |
| 5 | ‘ They met again at the same hotel . |
| 6 | They gazed down at the innocent football being kicked back and forth against the wall outside , the thwack of the ball booming in the street amongst the traffic noise . |
| 7 | Eventually , they got around to the main purpose of the visit . |
| 8 | A team of researchers from Bristol University was commissioned to examine what the YTS had to offer young black people and to indicate how they got on during the first six months of the scheme ( S. Fenton , Ethnic Minorities and the Youth Training Scheme Research and Development Series , no. 20 , MSC , 1984 ) . |
| 9 | Gone are the days when professionals left the business of fees , commissions , variation charges , reimbursables and the rest to underlings whilst they got on with the interesting work . |
| 10 | The 1993 event started in York on 14 February and we will report on how they got on in the next issue . |
| 11 | Slowly , they got together at the far end of the house and whispered to each other . |
| 12 | And erm , after that they got down to the serious business ! |
| 13 | It was only when they got down to the particular that problems arose . |
| 14 | And they got out at the very top . ’ |
| 15 | They would drink that in some of these pubs and , of course , as soon as they got out in the fresh air , it hit them and they were away . |
| 16 | They lived briefly in the great camps round and about , and then vanished . |
| 17 | As they rode out of the low narrow gate , their knees banging , their heads ducked , the other monks were mustering for the Holy Office of Vespers . |
| 18 | They rode out of the stable yard . |
| 19 | She slipped through the bushes alongside the sorry procession until they passed in through the lower guard of the castle , and disappeared up the tree-shrouded ramp . |
| 20 | Within a quarter of an hour Thomas was back , hugging himself with pleasure in his own cunning , and they passed together through the little door , and drew it to again after them . |
| 21 | They meandered along under the old overhanging house fronts and Jack had to duck his head to avoid cracking it on a lamp in an iron cage . |
| 22 | They arose only in the short uneasy period passed between land and water . |
| 23 | Considering themselves to be superior , they cared little for the ordinary person and looked down on the sinners . |
| 24 | ‘ Any landing you walk away from is a good one , ’ she exclaimed as they taxied in to the small terminal . |
| 25 | It was not just that they helped out at the occasional by-election , but that they ‘ pointed to new sources of support whose eventual accommodation , and to new issues whose eventual resolution , would ultimately modify the party itself and help equip it for the challenges of post-war politics ’ . |
| 26 | It was some kind of air duct , the hot , dry wind pushing into their faces as they moved away from the murderous thundering noise . |
| 27 | The west-coast defences given a structure and a system of manning , they moved inland to the key sites at crossroads or ford or defile where , usually , there had long been a hill-fort or an earthwork of some kind . |
| 28 | So Tallis described what she could sense , and then they moved on through the silent and deathly place , watching the dying and the dead with caution . |
| 29 | From there they moved on into the Cambrian mountains ; and for three days they toiled through the worst storms of the year . |
| 30 | The passengers may have been ablaze with diamonds , but the ships themselves were lit at every porthole and festooned with lights , as they moved relentlessly through the dark Atlantic waters like brilliant spaceships intent on terrestrial encounters . |