Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wondered whether to tell the four of them seated there about the death of Dr Kemp , for they 'd have to know very soon anyway . |
| 2 | After that everything between them became easy for the time being . |
| 3 | Sometimes the clerics among them met separately from the laymen . |
| 4 | In Philip Burton 's version , from then on , all was sweetness ; Richard occasionally went back to the house of Cis and Elfed ( on Sunday mornings ) and the two of them got on with the transformation of the street boy into the stage man . |
| 5 | More of them got in on the industrial act — Sri Lanka was the latest brave new industrializing country , while India finally took off as a major supplier of iron and steel on the global stage . |
| 6 | But today there was the picnic , and who could tell what would happen once the four of them got in amongst the pine coverts of Ham Park . |
| 7 | Both of them got out on the restaurant floor , but Pavel carried on down to the entrance lobby . |
| 8 | Maisie pushed Robert towards the stairs , and the two of them moved down towards the crowded entrance hall . |
| 9 | He was an Edinburgh solicitor who had two houses , two cars and had commuted between two women before one of them found out about the other . |
| 10 | Billy took one of the baskets from Molly , and the three of them wandered on through the wood . |
| 11 | Then the three of them swam away into the deeper water under the headland . |
| 12 | Turbin lights and they were for use of coastal command of the RAF first searchlighting for submarines , looking for submarines , the er the Harvards were very much trained as some of them came in from the Navy they were used for training landing of pilots on aircraft carriers , and they had hooks underneath you know the er they were a very good trainer they were still used today , but when we used to go and see films at the pictures they used to use them a lot as Japanese aircraft because they looked alike , and they used to use them as zeros in the American films these Harvard trainers , er and but like as I said they had a experimental department at Helliwells and they used to try out various things to see if they could improve on the structure or the instrumentation things like that |
| 13 | Matthew and Sara and the children with them came out of the old woods into the new plantation , where rows of conifers , dark green , were interplanted with small spindly brighter green beeches . |
| 14 | A good many boys and girls had joined the crowd now and shouts of laughter broke out as a few of them came out from the gate in the kitchen-garden wall , their hands full of ripe peaches , their chins dripping with juice . |
| 15 | Yes and and then when the lifeboat came , the Eday and and Sanday and them a lot of them came across for the dances , the lifeboat dances , it was really I would say the best time |
| 16 | The fact that so many of them played together for the Lions will be an important help . ’ |
| 17 | She would n't be a real Brownie if she flew home and left them stranded out on the snowy woods . |
| 18 | The difference between the two of them showed up in The Waste , Land drafts . |
| 19 | The town itself is in most respects unremarkable by comparison with its Devon neighbours , and like many of them flourished especially in the seventeenth century , heyday of the West Country cloth trade : when Celia Fiennes passed close by in 1698 , she found all Exeter and the country around making ‘ an incredible quantity of serges ’ which were sent from the port of Topsham to be sold in Europe . |
| 20 | The two of them galloped off down the steep grass bank . |
| 21 | At luncheon all four of them fetched up in the saloon bar of The Rose and Crown . |
| 22 | ( In some of the harsh villages of the hinterland , the sheets of the bridal night were still unfurled on the morning after ; the spots on them displayed heraldically from the balcony of the house . ) |
| 23 | Her voice , which had been raised , as his had been , so as to be heard while one of them walked ahead of the other , died away as they passed down the corridor , presumably en route to bed . |
| 24 | His white-gloved hands played possum on the desk-top until one of them walked across to the baton , picked it up and hit the desk-top a sharp blow . |
| 25 | The three of them walked back to the village . |
| 26 | The three of them trooped out into the hallway . |
| 27 | The two of them leapt out of the beached cockboat and strode up past the fishwives , some of whom gave him a " good day " but most of whom preserved a surly silence . |
| 28 | They were flying the Liberators in for the big daylight raids on the Ruhr and one of them flew straight into the field where Grandad was working , planting carrots for the war effort . |
| 29 | Many of them worked late into the night with their files and their problems of decisions , or if they were in the Judicature , their judgements . |
| 30 | All three of them stared silently at the walls . |