Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They trot lightly down the path on the other side of the dip . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They clung together in the waiting room outside Sarah 's office and Maureen told her what Tony had said . |
| 4 | Noises of chopping reached them as they lay there in the morning , feeling stiff and foul . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | They lay together on the bare , splintered boards . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | They met separately from the authority and shared a common ‘ soft Left ’ platform of views on the future of the NHS . |
| 12 | ‘ They met again over the years , too . |
| 13 | When the counsellors were ready , they met again with the king and agreed their proposals . |
| 14 | Their friendship blossomed when they met again at the funeral and developed into a love that was to stretch across forty years of marriage . |
| 15 | ‘ They met again at the same hotel . |
| 16 | They met daily in the half-light , at three o'clock in the morning , just before milking . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | As they got closer to the centre they appeared to change colour . |
| 19 | I 'm still convinced they got away at the end of the movie . |
| 20 | As they got away from the school he straightened up . |
| 21 | 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 |
| 22 | Although Gil Robles and a sincere ‘ Social-Catholic ’ minority within the CEDA were anxious to demonstrate their reforming credentials , and thereby to retain the loyalty of their own peasant supporters , with a programme aimed at converting rural tenants into property-owners , they got nowhere in the face of opposition from monarchists and the reactionary majority of their own party . |
| 23 | Slowly , they got together at the far end of the house and whispered to each other . |
| 24 | Once formulated , they remain forever in the environment and build up in food chains and ultimately in our bodies . |
| 25 | They lived briefly in the great camps round and about , and then vanished . |
| 26 | They lived deeper in the country , some twenty miles away . |
| 27 | Many people will not realise that there is a property element built in and that they qualify only for the 25 per cent . |
| 28 | Well to tell you the truth , I went to own school , when it was er winter , when it comes the winter , they bate somewhere for the winter , do you see ? |
| 29 | Dexter parked the car next to the first telephone kiosk they chanced across on the way back to Reading . |
| 30 | As they rode leisurely through the thyme-scented , bee-humming air , Rincewind pondered on the experiences of the last few days . |