Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , they clung on to a victory which served to rekindle hopes among the travelling support that all was not lost after all in the title race , especially after news leaked through of Rangers ' demise at Celtic Park . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 5 | After their terribly exciting bridge crossing , they hopped back over the shallows and headed back to their mini-van . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The patrol took some prisoners and drove through the lines until they met up with a British unit , who refused to believe they were who they said they were . |
| 8 | Here they met up with a team from the Combined Operations base in the Suez Canal Zone , with two canoe parties under Lieutenant Robert Smith RN . |
| 9 | At one point they met up with a lorry laden with Coke which had been stuck for over three weeks in knee deep mud . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | At Podromanija they met up with the Swedish relief convoy of 10 trucks , 9½ being filled with food and the remainder with medical supplies . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | They met separately from the authority and shared a common ‘ soft Left ’ platform of views on the future of the NHS . |
| 15 | ‘ They met again over the years , too . |
| 16 | When the counsellors were ready , they met again with the king and agreed their proposals . |
| 17 | In the meantime , Sinatra 's relationship with Peter Lawford had been repaired when they met again at a dinner party given by Gary Cooper , and they behaved as though there had never been an argument . |
| 18 | Their friendship blossomed when they met again at the funeral and developed into a love that was to stretch across forty years of marriage . |
| 19 | ‘ They met again at the same hotel . |
| 20 | They met daily in the half-light , at three o'clock in the morning , just before milking . |
| 21 | They met once on a date , nine years ago , and again when she was the make-up artist on Bad Influence , in 1988 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | As they got closer to the centre they appeared to change colour . |
| 25 | In the end I was burgled , and they got away with a large number of the works that I kept stored . |
| 26 | And they got away with a large quantity of tools and car batteries . |
| 27 | I 'm still convinced they got away at the end of the movie . |
| 28 | ‘ Once they realised they could n't get any money they ran out of the shop and I think they got away in a car . ’ |
| 29 | As they got away from the school he straightened up . |
| 30 | 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 |