Example sentences of "they [vb past] [v-ing] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh well , they got staying on the place and , oh that money never , er was never asked for money for . |
| 2 | and they got boring in the end cos they went on , you know about a bit too , you 've got to stop |
| 3 | Those condemned to lose soon became irritated by the game ; and to the extent that the winners enjoyed the game , they ceased acting in a comradely spirit . |
| 4 | They stopped speaking for a while , then Gerry offered to take the helm . |
| 5 | Armies of monkeys marching through the jungle roof on swinging arms took fright , too , when they saw the little file of humans and they fled chattering through the upper branches almost as speedily as the birds . |
| 6 | They came marching up the rough track . |
| 7 | She cooked the turkey and booted the uncles ' wives out of her way when they came cluttering into the kitchen trying to help , i.e. interfere , which they did unfailingly each year . |
| 8 | They began training for the finals in January involving twice-weekly practice sessions in the Barlaston canteen after work . |
| 9 | The singers ' chant frayed as they began pointing at the Spiderglass Europa logo , and in amongst the strangeness of a foreign tongue Jezrael heard the triumphant old woman say , ‘ Spiderglass ’ and ‘ Steel City ’ . |
| 10 | After a discouraging start , they began thinking of a totally new approach — using a device called a magnetron . |
| 11 | The first seven members of the Roseberry co-operative had been unemployed for an average of five years and seven months when they began working on the Langridge Crescent site , and their growing band of colleagues has continued to include those frequently bypassed by mainstream employers in the construction industry : a deaf and dumb carpenter , a former labourer with a history of heart trouble , a young woman training to be a painter and others . |
| 12 | But as time went on they began returning to the box , which was what we wanted them to do . |
| 13 | She 'd noticed the change in him as soon as they began rehearsing in the theatre . |
| 14 | But while they were out in the garden during the afternoon they began talking to the man next door who had a motorbike and was leaving for the City on it at seven . |
| 15 | They began talking about the future , and later made love once more . |
| 16 | They began selling at an early age , certainly before 10 years of age . |
| 17 | They heard quacking on the other side of the wall . |
| 18 | Robert referred to the recommendations and suggestions made by Alison Precious and Karen Jessop after the time they spent working on the reception desk and mentioned particularly the question of resiting the switchboard . |
| 19 | They finished chatting in the afternoon , and the researcher went back to her hotel room . |
| 20 | And he tossed the bunch of keys so that they flew sparkling through the air and landed in the princess 's lap . |
| 21 | Then on December 31 , right before they started ringing in the new tax year , executive vice president Ron Lachman wrote out a cheque to Systemhouse buying back the piece of Interactive that had originally been the most famous part of the old Lachman Associates ( UX No 220 ) . |
| 22 | ‘ When you arrived in casualty last night you were covered with blood and they started hunting for the wounds and getting the blood transfusion supplies ready . |
| 23 | They started drinking before the parson ever arrived and , when he did , fell upon the beer kegs that came on the same cart as though they were men dying of thirst . |
| 24 | Er they started coming in the Christmas oranges . |
| 25 | There were a lot of children left behind and they started running into the bush . |
| 26 | They collapsed gasping to the ground . |
| 27 | As soon they come back I reckon it was conceived when they went skiing in the week . |
| 28 | From there they went darting across the boiling surface like a dragon-fly , skimming with the currents where the banks were swept too open and smooth to hold flotsam , swinging aside round the sergeant 's paddle in the marked spots ; round the shovel-shaped end of Eel Island , which had scooped up a full load of branches , twigs , uprooted grass , and even more curious trophies , but not what they were seeking ; a little way down the sluggish backwater beyond , until motion ceased in stagnant shallows , and still there was nothing ; out into the flood again , hopping back on to the current as on to a moving belt that whisked them away ; revolving out of the race again where the trees leaned down into the water at the curve by the Lacey farm , acting like a great , living grille to filter out debris ; clean across the width of the river at the next coil , to where the long , sandy shallow ran out and encircled a miniature beach . |
| 29 | Later they went shopping in the markets and bought her red plastic plates and incense and spaghetti and him a copper kettle and a book so heavy that he could hardly carry it he said . |
| 30 | That first evening they went walking up the hill away from Marshall 's cottage , to a small plantation of aspen trees . |