Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they revealed how the secret of a happy marriage is compromise . |
| 2 | They crept up the back staircase to the third floor , testing each tread for creaks before stepping on it , nightclothes bunched in one hand lest they trip . |
| 3 | As far as Paul and Granville are concerned , they 've already come an unfeasibly long way since they got together a couple of years ago at college in Derby . |
| 4 | They got down the escarpment on to the coastal plain without mishap and drove along a dirt track beside Benina airfield . |
| 5 | They got out a bag containing balloons and presents for Harry 's birthday bash , which will be held without his parents . |
| 6 | When they got there a group of men were already pulling the monster off the sharpened stakes they had set in the bottom of a pit . |
| 7 | When they got back the airport hotel seemed like home but his money was running out . |
| 8 | And I think — ’ her eyes wandered doubtfully to Ferryman , who was still grinning , wondering what all the fuss was about — ‘ they got quite a lot out of it . ’ |
| 9 | They pinned down the boards and laid new felt and carpet — unaware Mike was underneath . |
| 10 | Undoubtedly some will be unable to cope with this emphasis on self-management because they lack either the intelligence or perhaps , more importantly , the motivation to do so . |
| 11 | That is another way of saying he wants his team to win , because they remain only a point clear , although after tonight they will still have a match in hand . |
| 12 | But then they bring up the story of a great uncle who was infected with French ideas and took to drink , and so they insinuate I shall do the same . ’ |
| 13 | What distinguishes the series of Criminal Justice Acts is the comprehensiveness with which they bring together a range of generally disparate proposals , originating from different sources , bearing on the content of the criminal law , the powers and procedure of the courts , and the treatment ( in the widest sense ) of offenders . |
| 14 | They bring together a range of information not otherwise collected . |
| 15 | Whilst they only fill a tenth of seats they bring in a lot more income , in Virgin 's case almost half . |
| 16 | these wee pencil brushes that colouring in bring out different er sort of , you know , knots and you know they bring in the pencil |
| 17 | WALES skipper Gareth Llewellyn hopes his side can reach their target of six wins out of six when they bring down the curtain on their African tour against the South African Barbarians in Windhoek today . |
| 18 | But above all they bring home the fragility of human power to rescue us from despair and the absence of hope . |
| 19 | They bring home the inequality of material conditions : at the one extreme old men in filthy lodgings chopping a few sticks to keep warm , and at the other the lady of the manor supported by servants and a companion in her immaculate drawing-room . |
| 20 | ‘ These little publishers always say that when they bring out a book everyone else rejected as uncommercial . |
| 21 | Carefully , the major turned the conversation to an Iranian editorial he had seen , and they laid down the subject . |
| 22 | Portadown were firmly in the driving seat as they pegged back the Dublin side inside their 25 , with Loreto relying on the break . |
| 23 | From being a central coordinator determining a common line to be followed by all member firms , they became more a centre to which their members might turn for advice and industrial relations services , particularly those relating to the expanding field of labour law and other consequences of government action such as incomes policy requirements . |
| 24 | Soon afterwards they became respectively the Pretender 's Secretary of State and one of his leading generals . |
| 25 | I kept them to myself , where they constantly grew in depth and where they became merely a backdrop to my private obsession : home , family , school , everything . |
| 26 | So they rode up the Water of Milk , Jardine country , and through the empty Tundergarth Hills to Eskdale , Armstrong territory . |
| 27 | As they rode down the village , George noted how clean and tidy it was . |
| 28 | Together they made up the Board of the Greencloth , named , like the Exchequer , from the cloth which covered their working table . |
| 29 | There 's nothing like a good bed , ’ said Nessie O'Neil to her daughter Nellie as they made up the bed in the box bedroom at Ballytreabhair Farm . |
| 30 | The only certain starting point was that the opera would have a Swiss theme , in common with Cheltenham 's International Music Festival , of which the project was part.That aside , they made up the script as they went along . |