Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still they kept chanting , knowing that if they stopped now the spell would run out of control and all their work would be undone . |
| 2 | As they worked they monitored continuously the condition of the sea and the sky , the direction of the wind and the length of the day and the night . |
| 3 | Yeah , they played well the year before they held their own see they 've got all the |
| 4 | They mounted both the hammer and its check on the key . |
| 5 | They drove home the Derry way , and as usual it set Mallachy off . |
| 6 | When you have a very small , very select , very ladylike grammar school , joined with two rough and ready secondary moderns what basically happened in my view is that when they joined together the grammar school staff , or most of them , could n't cope with the rough and ready aspect the school they came to have . |
| 7 | That night , they dug away the earth and drew the nails from the planks and removed the great bars that had closed all the formal entrances into the city , and completed the bridging of the ditch that led to the land gate . |
| 8 | As they climbed so the flak followed them ; as they dived so it came down to harry them . |
| 9 | Since the companies set the price , they determined both the amount of profit per bbl from extracting it and the amount of tax the ‘ host government ’ could levy on the process . |
| 10 | They bade both the merchant and his paramour adieu . |
| 11 | On the evidence available from their thorough training sessions and the way they brushed aside the challenge from a truly competitive outfit here , it is hard to see these All Blacks returning home as ‘ failures ’ . |
| 12 | They followed instead the verdict of 1225 , and declared that all Surrey was out of the forest . |
| 13 | Cosloy , impressed , invited the band over to play at this summer 's New Music Seminar in New York , where they pulled apart the Knitting Factory with a glorious show that proved to be one of the most talked about of the week . |
| 14 | Since the first printers often did not use a front title-page , or did not include on it all the important information we are accustomed to see there today , they employed instead the device known as the colophon ( from a Greek word variously translated as ‘ summit ’ , ‘ top ’ and ‘ finishing stroke ’ ) right at the end of the main text and , normally , before the index . |
| 15 | In opposition , they likewise shifted right ( Britain ) or , if they started nearer the centre ( Germany ) , just waited for the inevitable disillusionment with conservatism to set in . |
| 16 | They blew away the chauffeur 's head with a machine gun . |
| 17 | Donald , Pringle , Snell and McMillan all looked healthily hostile as they blew away the cream of Australian batting for under 200 , and Hudson showed touches of class as South Africa won by nine wickets . |
| 18 | They took away the telephone after Gran tried to telephone Buckingham Palace to complain to the Queen . ’ |
| 19 | I was very apprehensive and the fact that they took away the radio at the same time made our suspicions worse . |
| 20 | Hanover officials said the plane was allowed to leave because they took seriously the hijacker 's threat to shoot passengers . |
| 21 | They felt acutely the loss of their skilled experience . |
| 22 | This made things much simpler for his advisers because they knew exactly the sort of information Reagan wanted to hear . |
| 23 | They looked just the way they did when they turned to the altar on Sunday mornings . |
| 24 | Of course , the holders of irredeemable stock were not obliged to exchange it for South Sea stock , but as fast as they did so the company would issue an equal amount of its stock . |
| 25 | The World Championships crept gradually nearer , and as they did so the relay running order began to get to me . |
| 26 | Well I thought the sa I mean eve that last thing they did there the Starlight Express thing , I did n't have a clue what that was about . |
| 27 | The games at Parkhead against Hibs and at McDiarmid Park against Falkirk were both meaningful in the sense that they influenced either the chase for a place in Europe or the relegation issue . |
| 28 | No-one had noticed that while they huddled together the armour-plating had rusted away . |
| 29 | They fumbled away the game , 37-14 , to the Colts , and lost quarterback Jim Kelly for perhaps four weeks with a shoulder separation . |
| 30 | A series of screenings were arranged in 1912 to ‘ demonstrate the high qualities of the British film ’ , and they proved rather the opposite . |