Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the end I was burgled , and they got away with a large number of the works that I kept stored . |
| 2 | And they got away with a large quantity of tools and car batteries . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They lived together for a long time ; she bore him children — who took after their mother and turned out to be demons too . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They moved cautiously along a dimly-lit passage until they reached the steep narrow ladder that descended to the next level . |
| 8 | From the library they staggered forth with a querulous shout of " Yah , Boney ! " |
| 9 | Ron and Pat Woolley , of Rhyl , recently took a huge lorry-load of medical supplies , equipment and clothes to the Klaipicla Children 's Hospital in Lithuania after being shocked by the conditions they found there during a previous visit . |
| 10 | The reporter thanked him , and the camera tracked him as he trudged over to the other members of the team and they headed together towards a dark crack in the hillside . |
| 11 | They only used to ever lock the door from the outside and er I er had to make er fifty and as I say , number them one up to fifty and er then they 'd perhaps on a odd occasion they sent me an order for one , the number the number |
| 12 | However , many of those connections which Walcott thought he had identified appear to have been tied together by little more than familial relationship ; he was not able to show that they acted together as a cohesive political force . |
| 13 | Thinking that was a dig at female priorities , she smiled but said nothing as they chugged slowly to a small jetty . |
| 14 | They dispersed quietly after a short meeting on top of the city wall , over Magazine Gate , which again was addressed by Hume . |
| 15 | They shuffled forward in a dazed manner holding hands , their labels hanging round their necks . |
| 16 | In London , the social circle of such characters was known as ‘ The Altogethery ’ , as they stuck together in a social mire of their own making . |
| 17 | They walked downstairs into a big room . |
| 18 | They walked together across a cobbled square . |
| 19 | She never ceased to regret that her own family had been scattered while she was still so young , and when , in 1787 , the five Wordsworth children were briefly reunited , they returned constantly to a single theme . |
| 20 | We seldom discussed politics but I knew that even though they belonged officially to a Fascist organization their sentiments were more inclined to the local brand of Communism . |
| 21 | They trailed home under a red , smoky sky , to the cosy , fire-lit parlour and high tea . |
| 22 | The most pessimistic viewpoint is that the brains of different groups of mammals have very little in common because they evolved separately from a common ancestral form in which the brain was relatively formless , lacking the distinctive sub-divisions that can be identified in the brains of modern mammals . |
| 23 | They went carefully along a dark passage to some stairs , then suddenly stopped . |
| 24 | If they did so in a consistent way , that would be fine . |
| 25 | She went up to the bedroom to see Anna and they spoke together for a long time . ’ |
| 26 | This function they performed only in a limited and highly conservative way ; but there was hardly any other institution in France which could perform it at all . |
| 27 | They ran away in a great hurry . |
| 28 | After staring about for some time , they ran across to a little mound some way away and looked again . |
| 29 | At the corner of Bowyers Row they stood aside as a huge , wooden wagon rolled by , pulled by four horses , their manes hogged , eyes blinkered and nostrils flaring at the corrupting smell of death . |
| 30 | They stood there in a frightened cluster . |