Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv prt] [prep] [art] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just after 0800hrs they swooped down on the closely parked Curtiss P–36s and P–40s . |
| 2 | However , as soon as they moved on to a more public and active presentation of their demands then councillors condemned this activity , the demands themselves were ignored , and the groups were held up to public ridicule as a threat to democracy and the general interest . |
| 3 | After an initial success in 1964 over ‘ royalty expensing ’ , an element in the intricate mechanics of computing concessionaires ' tax liability which gained OPEC members some extra cents of revenue per bbl , they moved on to the earnestly disputed negotiating rounds in Tripoli and Tehran in 1971 . |
| 4 | They came up with a far better deal than I could have got on my own . ’ |
| 5 | And so there was a second lot of market research commissioned from a different organisation , and they came up with an even better picture ! |
| 6 | They came out into a slightly wider passage where there were no stalls but children were playing and black-gowned women standing in doorways talking . |
| 7 | As soon as he confessed what he knew , fumbling the hideous admission as they came out of a rather good film about love that he had hardly been able to stand , she managed to make it seem that it was he , not she , who was the disturber of their lives . |
| 8 | Yanto asked , as they climbed down into the half empty hold of the ‘ Marit ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ If you 'd like to unfasten Rip van Winkle , I 'll get the buggy from the boot , ’ he offered , and together they climbed out into the now steady downpour . |
| 10 | For those who did n't go , they started off with a rather perfunctory ‘ Summer Babe ’ , trawled through most of the album and then went through two shambolic encores . |
| 11 | The formation of the commercial basis of the kingdoms is not uniform and geography must have played an important part in the speed with which they evolved out of the less commercial exchanges of primitive valuables between earlier corporate descent groups and cohesive political units . |
| 12 | The fact that they tapped in to the rapidly expanding European market undoubtedly helped the giant US firms to offset some of the effects of slow domestic growth . |
| 13 | The tide was ebbing , and they went down on the steeply shelving bed of the Conway . |
| 14 | But Belinda says they ended up in the far from deserted capital of Rarotonga . |