Example sentences of "they [vb past] [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 | Carefully , the major turned the conversation to an Iranian editorial he had seen , and they laid down the subject . |
| 11 | Portadown were firmly in the driving seat as they pegged back the Dublin side inside their 25 , with Loreto relying on the break . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Soon afterwards they became respectively the Pretender 's Secretary of State and one of his leading generals . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | So they rode up the Water of Milk , Jardine country , and through the empty Tundergarth Hills to Eskdale , Armstrong territory . |
| 16 | As they rode down the village , George noted how clean and tidy it was . |
| 17 | Together they made up the Board of the Greencloth , named , like the Exchequer , from the cloth which covered their working table . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He found that although the rats in the third group made many errors until the eleventh day , upon reinforcement on this day they made almost no mistakes . |
| 21 | They had to walk right past the tramp to enter the church and they made absolutely no attempt to help him in any way . |
| 22 | They cursed and uttered muttered threats to desert , but on and on they walked until they made out a herd of wild cattle staring at them hostilely through the rain , and clambered aboard . |
| 23 | They made quite a lot of noise . ’ |
| 24 | So they made quite a party of it , and had tremendous fun . |
| 25 | The Bradens moved to Toronto where they did well in CBC productions , and in 1949 moved on to London where for the next 30 years they made quite an impression at the BBC , both in radio and in television . |
| 26 | In silence they passed down the grandness of Whitehall , hemmed in by the blank facades of bureaucracy , ministries where men and women toiled in cold obscurity . |
| 27 | They passed back the way they had come , past the gleaming white walls and up the stairs . |
| 28 | About the same time , for whatever reason , that the cops , they stitched up the Weasel — who would almost collapse at fat Phillis 's tap , her grave face and hand upon his shoulder — Anton went for a piss . |
| 29 | And that was all that mattered as they cruised down the freeway , alone together in Zitney 's gleaming red hatchback . |
| 30 | The stolen car was damaged as they made their getaway and the three men transferred to Wishart 's own car and drove to his mother 's home where they shared out the money in the attic . |