Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv prt] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , three-quarters of RAF churches have robed choirs , half of them made up entirely of adults and averaging eight to ten members . |
| 2 | The Government wants them to find out more about the sort of error that leads to tragedies such as the Chernobyl blast in Russia . |
| 3 | You can buy them to sell on later at a profit . |
| 4 | Ask them to look out particularly for any signs of dredging for oysters , in the creeks , or just offshore . " |
| 5 | Both of them jump back slightly as a cat darts in front of them as they leave the park , they both watch it running across the road without looking and then scramble up a wall to window ledge . |
| 6 | So I said to them pop down there on the way home , check it out |
| 7 | We lifted them into place , one of them nestling in precisely to the mark on the wall , left by the previous incumbent . |
| 8 | ‘ To stop them coming up here after us . |
| 9 | its busy busy for local sport at the moment … but one team struggling to make a go of it are Oxford Cheetahs speedway … news of them coming up now in our action round-up |
| 10 | But neither of them worked up much of a sweat . |
| 11 | Not only that ; that 's where they get their instructions , because sometimes some of them go out again for a second time to take part in another incident . |
| 12 | I regularly see them sent out alone on shopping errands . |
| 13 | Hollies are not difficult to grow , although I have found a tendency for them to die back badly at maturity in places with cool , wet summers . |
| 14 | When Beverley , who had written the hits Boeing Boeing and Half A Sixpence , suggested that what Ken really needed was a good holiday , the two of them took off together for Greece . |
| 15 | Other species are attached to rocks by means of tough threads ( byssus ) that enable them to hang on even in turbulent situations ; mussels can colonize even the most inhospitable rock surfaces in this way . |
| 16 | A friend he had not seen for ages came into the bar with his wife , and , in the end , the three of them went on somewhere for dinner . |
| 17 | Tony had had a 68 to Jack 's 66 , so the lead was cut to 7 , and sure enough they met up again on the 6th and 12th greens . |
| 18 | It was er you know they came with a big traction engine and the thrashing mill and then they they got up early in the morning and there was the man that looked after the thrashing mill and fork from the carts onto the onto the mill . |
| 19 | The arrangements for demobilisation were based strictly on length of service , except for those girls who were married and they got out almost at once . |
| 20 | They got back together after a long break so he must have liked her as she was . |
| 21 | When they got back late for lunch Mrs Roberts had gone out , leaving a note . |
| 22 | Men who were renowned working-class leaders but would beat up their wives if they got in late from one of our meetings . |
| 23 | Er other thing , and they lived down there opposite the garage , that was the electricity board house then . |
| 24 | They rode through just before the first of the big gate timbers descended in an explosion of sparks . |
| 25 | They rode off north-westwards without delay , worried men . |
| 26 | They tumbled back together into the lit space at the bottom of the stairs , gasping . |
| 27 | One of the group makes his own wine , and in the summer they sit out late into the night , drinking the wine and talking . |
| 28 | Though many English-educated Sri Lankans were lawyers , in this role they fit in neatly with the role of the temple priest . |
| 29 | They moved on again with the river coursing slowly in the growing light beside them and the birds darting out in front of their horses ' knees . |
| 30 | Very often they moved on again after a short stay , for they found that reality was harsher than their dreams . |