Example sentences of "[adv] they [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lastly they took the Minister and his wife , Jan , and drove them fast in separate cars across the Churchill Barriers that block the eastern approaches to Scapa Flow , to Kirkwall , the county town on Orkney 's mainland . |
| 2 | Suddenly they learned the truth . |
| 3 | The accompanying letter said how much they enjoyed the tour of Springfields and said Eric could pass on the sticker to his son . |
| 4 | Reaction to last year 's Fun Factory , she said , was excellent , with children and parents saying how much they welcomed the event . |
| 5 | Apparently they feared the burning timbers more than the bullets , but no doubt they were feeling some reaction after more than four hours in action : four hours of dodging snipers ' bullets and bursting open doors that all too often concealed a rifleman who fired , while around the houses a grenade could be dropped from any window . |
| 6 | Before long they lost the course of the brook , slipping across the moonlit patches as fugitives and halting in the bushes with raised ears and staring eyes . |
| 7 | When she wore 'em into Rugely They impressed the people hugely , While in Fordham folk adores 'em And they loved 'em in West Looe ! |
| 8 | But perhaps they chose the Northern to make sure we understood . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Perhaps they had already spent half the money , perhaps they returned the rest in a gesture to placate you . |
| 10 | Perhaps they lacked the ideological baggage , or even the intellectual equipment , to recognize the type of mentality which lay behind the smiles and jokes . |
| 11 | Perhaps they feared the dreaded shoot-out after Coleraine equalised but paid the penalty in any case . |
| 12 | Today , Batty admits that perhaps they liked the Ashleys too much . |
| 13 | ‘ All right , perhaps they pulled the trigger . |
| 14 | Gently they lifted the bedraggled form as Bert came lumbering down from the 3 and 4 landing , with Gilbert Forbes behind him , and behind him the trembling form of Jessie , wringing her hands . |
| 15 | Obviously they blamed the poor performance of students for the 15% and their ability to get the best out of the students for the 47% . |
| 16 | Fortunately , many of them know that their relatives and friends will be calling in to see them from time to time ; but ‘ from time to time ’ does not take care of those long days and nights in between , when , apart from their often desperate need for company , they feel frighteningly cut off from the world of people who would come to their aid at once if they fell ill , if only they had the means of contacting them . |
| 17 | Indeed , they would do so , if only they had the time or resources or if the entire teaching staff could agree to abandon lectures simultaneously . |
| 18 | Frankly there just is n't the money to go around , and kids are being made to suffer for long periods of time er for operations which really could be done if only they had the money . |
| 19 | Only they performed the most important religious ceremonies . |
| 20 | They deserve our attention not only because of their clear male-female : superior-inferior blood differentiation , but also because , of all the other blood rituals of covenanting , purifying and cleansing discussed above , only they survived the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple in AD 70 to remain rites central to the Judaism of today , with the same religious consequences for men and women as in the ancient world . |
| 21 | When they had enough they presented the food to Debbie who runs the home and nurses lots of animals back to health . |
| 22 | When they were close enough they threw the ropes up to the men at the front of the crowd , and all of them pushed from behind . |
| 23 | Feverishly they attacked the sea , their eyes straining for any sign of movement in the red-tinged , black water . |
| 24 | A crucial turning point was the Dunkirk experience of July 1940 : this sharing of danger led to a ‘ rearrangement of values ’ among the governing class , such that henceforth they accepted the need for universal social services as reflecting this ‘ pooling of national resources and sharing of risks ’ . |
| 25 | And so they had the stuff from there that was n't that had n't sold and |
| 26 | In the past China had been plundered by westerners eager to exploit large markets and in doing so they brought the nation to its knees . |
| 27 | So they thought the implicit extension of the convention included the proposition that the TVA dam must be halted and the snail darter saved . |
| 28 | So they took the house apart , stone by stone , and rebuilt it twenty yards further south on a piece of land recommended by the god . |
| 29 | So they took the money each month but refused to mix with other movie people in their spare time . |
| 30 | So they took the dirty one . |