Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] the [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 | They got down the escarpment on to the coastal plain without mishap and drove along a dirt track beside Benina airfield . |
| 4 | When they got back the airport hotel seemed like home but his money was running out . |
| 5 | They pinned down the boards and laid new felt and carpet — unaware Mike was underneath . |
| 6 | Carefully , the major turned the conversation to an Iranian editorial he had seen , and they laid down the subject . |
| 7 | Portadown were firmly in the driving seat as they pegged back the Dublin side inside their 25 , with Loreto relying on the break . |
| 8 | Soon afterwards they became respectively the Pretender 's Secretary of State and one of his leading generals . |
| 9 | So they rode up the Water of Milk , Jardine country , and through the empty Tundergarth Hills to Eskdale , Armstrong territory . |
| 10 | As they rode down the village , George noted how clean and tidy it was . |
| 11 | Together they made up the Board of the Greencloth , named , like the Exchequer , from the cloth which covered their working table . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | They passed back the way they had come , past the gleaming white walls and up the stairs . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | And that was all that mattered as they cruised down the freeway , alone together in Zitney 's gleaming red hatchback . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | After climbing the gate , they shared out the picnic load and began sweating their way up the five hundred yards of steeply rising ground towards the Park wall . |
| 20 | They wiped out the buffalo , more or less wiped out the Indians and , eventually , were driven away themselves by loneliness , extreme weather , drought , and the loss of topsoil brought on by over-farming . |
| 21 | They wiped out the majority of them . |
| 22 | By 1970 the generosity of tax concessions for new investment was such that they wiped out the effect of corporation tax and rendered the post-tax rate of profit virtually as high as the pre-tax rate . |
| 23 | They read up the transport laws at university and all that transport and everything . |
| 24 | She sympathised with the Duchess of York as she fought against her lack of freedom , she was tactful and kind when her own daughter told her that her marriage was dead and , finally , she acted as mediator to Charles and Diana as they fought out the death throes of their loveless union . |
| 25 | They sought not the abolition of hired labour , private enterprise and the commodity market but the abolition of the many semi-feudal bonds which survived the Edict of 1861 ; and they sought the transfer of noble land into their own hands . |
| 26 | Still they kept chanting , knowing that if they stopped now the spell would run out of control and all their work would be undone . |
| 27 | And they put all those factors together and they weighed up the alternatives and you 've heard some of them already . |
| 28 | They weighed up the prospect of knocking on the door and members of the jury , you have to consider in due course whether they got that act right . |
| 29 | Like London in the nineteen-forties , Paris seemed to have assembled every uniform and race loyal to the Allied cause ; and what variety , what colour the Moroccans and the Senegalese , Annamites and Malgaches , presented as they mingled down the Champs Elysées with immaculate cavalry officers , Foreign Legionnaires , kilted Highlanders , pretty nursing sisters , and now a sprinkling of American flyers from the Lafayette Squadron ! |
| 30 | The Robemaker moved forward , prodding Nuadu onwards and , as they moved down the centre of the Workshop , the blazing furnaces roaring on each side of them , Nuadu felt his skin already shrivelling from the heat . |