Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv prt] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Tony had had a 68 to Jack 's 66 , so the lead was cut to 7 , and sure enough they met up again on the 6th and 12th greens . |
| 2 | It was er you know they came with a big traction engine and the thrashing mill and then they they got up early in the morning and there was the man that looked after the thrashing mill and fork from the carts onto the onto the mill . |
| 3 | The arrangements for demobilisation were based strictly on length of service , except for those girls who were married and they got out almost at once . |
| 4 | They got back together after a long break so he must have liked her as she was . |
| 5 | When they got back late for lunch Mrs Roberts had gone out , leaving a note . |
| 6 | Men who were renowned working-class leaders but would beat up their wives if they got in late from one of our meetings . |
| 7 | Er other thing , and they lived down there opposite the garage , that was the electricity board house then . |
| 8 | They rode through just before the first of the big gate timbers descended in an explosion of sparks . |
| 9 | They rode off north-westwards without delay , worried men . |
| 10 | They tumbled back together into the lit space at the bottom of the stairs , gasping . |
| 11 | One of the group makes his own wine , and in the summer they sit out late into the night , drinking the wine and talking . |
| 12 | Though many English-educated Sri Lankans were lawyers , in this role they fit in neatly with the role of the temple priest . |
| 13 | They moved on again with the river coursing slowly in the growing light beside them and the birds darting out in front of their horses ' knees . |
| 14 | Very often they moved on again after a short stay , for they found that reality was harsher than their dreams . |
| 15 | They moved out slowly into the corridor , Chen looking about him , prepared at any moment to thrust the knife deep into Herrick 's throat . |
| 16 | At first they found it very cold , especially as they moved in just before Christmas . |
| 17 | They might have become becalmed there as their heads ballooned with the drink but the Duke told his piper to rouse their feet with a steady march , ‘ Murdo Mackenzie of Torridon ’ , and they headed off downstream towards Grandtully past the standing stone , the quiet watcher , while damp black shadow massed in the river-channel as though the night came from there . |
| 18 | The little blobs of phosphorus flare briefly as they fly off dangerously in various directions . |
| 19 | They wandered on together at random . |
| 20 | What do you reckon they hold up there on deck ? ’ |
| 21 | Some competitors just are n't quick enough off the mark , or they hold back instead of thrusting in strongly . |
| 22 | They show off shamefully to the females ( reeves ) . |
| 23 | They drove on silently for a few minutes and then Mrs Lomax suddenly spoke . |
| 24 | Big ideas : Sometimes the ‘ big ideas ’ of management theory become so fissile that they break out all over the place apparently independently . |
| 25 | They have little or no potential to effect the ozone layer ; either they contain no chlorine or they break down lower in the atmosphere . |
| 26 | And he was so puppyish that first time they came round together to my place . |
| 27 | Usually everyone left the house around the same time ; she liked to have the table cleared before she closed the door behind her , so the place looked respectable when they came in again in the evenings . |
| 28 | His mother looked nervously at them as they came in long after dark — she was obdurately against the recalling of ‘ the bad old times ’ and she would neither ask them what they had seen nor let them tell her . |
| 29 | They 've all finished early , they 've unless they came in late with the order or something , extras or something . |
| 30 | Then they came back later in their Volkswagen — which is when Bob found the bug they 'd attached to the back of the TV set . ’ |