Example sentences of "[vb past] they [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 As soon as the rain stopped they rushed to the old roofleaf beds and tried to find the old roots .
2 When the news finished they bent over the Guardian TV page , deciding what to see next .
3 Even as she watched they disappeared over the edge , leaving her in a watery isolation .
4 Anyway they got they got in the end and they
5 In particular , responsibilities had not been adequately defined , and , although the Ships ' Masters had raised concerns , the lack of any appropriate feedback system meant they fell by the wayside .
6 I mean they knew they knew about the chiller at time cos I think said
7 Oh yes , yes , but you just asked what benefit they thought they brought to the village .
8 Whatever people like Page may have felt or thought they felt about the Vietnam war , it is difficult not to regard them as much its victims as its predators .
9 ‘ Oh , and you thought they meant on the mouth ? ’
10 Certainly , in her classroom , sex was the topic on which she knew their vocabulary to be widest , in spite of the fact that it did n't receive the level of attention she insisted they devote to the subjects on the curriculum .
11 It had not been posted from outside or even sent through the internal mail in one of the recycled envelopes Prince Charles insisted they used for the interminable memos that are a feature of Palace life .
12 So successfully did they break into the English market that they soon put the native vineyards out of business .
13 Populations evolved separately in each of these pools , and only when the water rose again did they re-convene in the same lake .
14 None of them mentioned Richard or Hubert Molland ; nor did they refer to the last time they had all had tea together .
15 ‘ What did they think of the electronic tagging idea ? ’
16 What did they think of the Vikings ?
17 What did they think of the brochure then ?
18 And how did they use that extra area , what did they do with the ?
19 Well that was , well it should 've gone up from that , what did they do with the VAT stuck two and a half percent on it and said there you are we 're gon na hold the Poll Tax down , how ?
20 What did they do on the very first day except walk under the first vehicle they saw ?
21 ( Did they meet on the rue de Seine ? )
22 Did they complain about the Fujitsu factory , which takes some beating when one is considering eyesores ?
23 Did they go to the
24 What did they put in the coffee that made it such a diuretic ?
25 Were they somehow caught by s 2 , or , because s 4 had no application , did they fall outside the Act ?
26 ‘ What did they say on the telephone ? ’
27 What else did they say at the briefing ?
28 What did they say in the Owsla ?
29 In addition , what problems did they note about the labour supply for industries ?
30 And did they camp up the hill as well ?
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