Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes a head-on collision with a lorry seems inevitable , but somehow at the last moment we or they swerve out of the way . |
| 2 | They trot lightly down the path on the other side of the dip . |
| 3 | There are no hotel bills , they chip in for the petrol and food and everybody 's happy . ’ |
| 4 | His kiss was whole and complete and her world was whole and complete as their passion erupted and they clung together as the liquid fire inside them flowed furiously in its blazing release . |
| 5 | They clung together in the waiting room outside Sarah 's office and Maureen told her what Tony had said . |
| 6 | As for the three goblins , they crept back to the king of the vookodlaks and he beat them all , and made them stand on their heads in the mud for three years and thirty days . |
| 7 | Noises of chopping reached them as they lay there in the morning , feeling stiff and foul . |
| 8 | As darkness fell again they took turns to wash in the tent , and then they lay together under the night sky and reached again for the stars . |
| 9 | They lay together on the bare , splintered boards . |
| 10 | They lay together in the same blue-white room , though this time their lovemaking had been gentler and more familiar , as warmth and exploration of each other 's bodies and hearts had succeeded the glorious frenzy of their first coupling . |
| 11 | They lay together in the gathering darkness , holding each other , neither making any attempt to speak their hurt and their loss but both knowing it was there , buried deep within them . |
| 12 | After their terribly exciting bridge crossing , they hopped back over the shallows and headed back to their mini-van . |
| 13 | In September , when Edward had any spare time and Helen was free from work , they met frequently at the National Gallery , where they examined minutely Greek male and female statues , or at Janet 's lodgings . |
| 14 | The children marched down the stairs , the nun coming behind , and in the hall they met up with the older girls and , now forming two files , they walked , hands joined as if in prayer , slowly along a corridor , and into the chapel . |
| 15 | When they met up with the rest of the Carlisle Flint team Kate tried to ignore the studiously impassive face of Mike Booker as he greeted her . |
| 16 | At Podromanija they met up with the Swedish relief convoy of 10 trucks , 9½ being filled with food and the remainder with medical supplies . |
| 17 | At the same time the woman moved , incredibly quickly — ; she seemed to glide quite upright , and they met just beyond the platform roof in the sunlight . |
| 18 | They met separately from the authority and shared a common ‘ soft Left ’ platform of views on the future of the NHS . |
| 19 | ‘ They met again over the years , too . |
| 20 | When the counsellors were ready , they met again with the king and agreed their proposals . |
| 21 | Their friendship blossomed when they met again at the funeral and developed into a love that was to stretch across forty years of marriage . |
| 22 | ‘ They met again at the same hotel . |
| 23 | They met daily in the half-light , at three o'clock in the morning , just before milking . |
| 24 | Until they met yesterday in the quarter-finals of the £275,000 Silk Cut Championships , their first encounter since the semi-finals in Paris , the Soviet No.1 Andrei Chesnokov believed that Chang was more susceptible to power on carpet and cement . |
| 25 | They gazed down at the innocent football being kicked back and forth against the wall outside , the thwack of the ball booming in the street amongst the traffic noise . |
| 26 | As they got closer to the centre they appeared to change colour . |
| 27 | I 'm still convinced they got away at the end of the movie . |
| 28 | As they got away from the school he straightened up . |
| 29 | Yeah , swinging around us , literally big panes of glass and they were flying down and as soon as they got away from the houses , it opened up again , they were crashing down all over my drive and all over the road out there |
| 30 | Eventually , they got around to the main purpose of the visit . |