Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv prt] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A ten-minute soak worked wonders on Merrill 's jaded sense of well-being , and when she went down she found the three of them seated around a huge log fire . |
| 2 | One of them got out the ugliest looking knife that I have seen to cut a piece of string or something on his bicycle . |
| 3 | Although Goodman and Peckinpah are credited with the screenplay , all three of them hammered out a final script . |
| 4 | The five of them scrambled up the narrow carpeted stairway . |
| 5 | When they got back the little house was empty . |
| 6 | On every side of them , as they rode down the winding valley of the Suir from Clonmel to Carrick , stretched great rolling hills , rising to the distant mountains — Slievenaman to the north , Comeragh to the south . |
| 7 | She was home but , like him , an exile : together they made up a little principality but it was inside the great metropolis . |
| 8 | Just the same refuges of the elderly also appear in the Social Survey of Merseyside of 1934 , where they made up a third of the tenants of the largest multiple households . |
| 9 | Every clan has a different colour , and they made up a special shade for us . ’ |
| 10 | The company claimed last night that Mr Onanuga and Mr Newton now agreed they made up the whole story of Mr Lamont 's visit . |
| 11 | They made up the double bed in William and Kate 's room , which was the best room in the house , overlooking the back garden and mercifully free from images of death , destruction and eternal torment , which presumably meant that William had been kept out of it , at least so far as the decor was concerned . |
| 12 | They made out a shadowy form in front of them , by shielding their eyes against the blinding glare . |
| 13 | The Princes will rue the fact that they passed up a wonderful chance to finish off the match on the 18th , for they were one up on that tee from which both the sons hit long and straight down the fairway . |
| 14 | Between them , they tumbled out the whole story , the peacocks , the stone lions , Evelyn 's mum , Mrs Grace , the notice going up about Hambury — everything . |
| 15 | They shared out the thick broth and dipped their bread in it , licking their fingers . |
| 16 | The West Germans had not appeared to pose a threat to that plan until they wiped out a 2–0 deficit late in the second half of the quarter-final . |
| 17 | Suddenly they zoomed up the social scale . |
| 18 | Eton and Lancing enjoyed rather less excitement as they fought out a dour 0-0 draw . |
| 19 | Turning off the lane at a sign marked ‘ Private Road ’ , they bumped over a long , pot-holed track , climbing up towards the brow of the hill . |
| 20 | The Geordies were seemingly cruising as they built up a 3-0 half-time lead . |
| 21 | Between them they built up a dense network of services , institutions and training and campaign centres with inevitable duplications and therefore the constant need for co-ordination . |
| 22 | Thus they built up a considerable number of contact points across the action areas , and ( in Ipswich ) even started drawing up a register of people prepared to be considered as support workers . |
| 23 | They drew up a detailed proposal and submitted it to the Basic Energy Research Programme of the DOE ( Department of Energy ) in Washington DC , which has it dated ‘ 23 August ’ . |
| 24 | The girls squealed as their feet sank into six inches of mud , but they persevered after encouragement from the boys and found the bottom much firmer as they waded out a few more feet . |
| 25 | But after 74 miles , they were all together as they charged up the last climb to the finishing line . |
| 26 | In fact the what , they found out the sacred secret , that 's enlightened them to the Hebrew though |
| 27 | Yeah but , like you say that the to find , to find out the real truth you have to refer to Hebrew anyway because they found out the sacred secret of God did n't they ? |
| 28 | And then they f—ed up the whole world . |
| 29 | They wandered down a small incline where they stopped on a bridge and stared down into the browny green water . |
| 30 | They wandered down the cobbled streets to the Riviera , across the Villa Comunale and then over Via Caracciolo to the balustrade that separated them from the boulders that sat on the edge of the sea . |