Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now they got much the same thing for the dinner , but if the prisoner had got any money of his own , and if he cared to contribute an extra sixpence he got a hot meal at midday . |
| 2 | When they got back the little house was empty . |
| 3 | On every side of them , as they rode down the winding valley of the Suir from Clonmel to Carrick , stretched great rolling hills , rising to the distant mountains — Slievenaman to the north , Comeragh to the south . |
| 4 | Nevertheless they made plain the painful contrast between the limited ‘ privileged ’ areas — the deep black soils of the Guadalquivir or the market gardens and orange groves of Valencia — and the parched , thin limestone and granite soils of the central tableland . |
| 5 | The company claimed last night that Mr Onanuga and Mr Newton now agreed they made up the whole story of Mr Lamont 's visit . |
| 6 | They made up the double bed in William and Kate 's room , which was the best room in the house , overlooking the back garden and mercifully free from images of death , destruction and eternal torment , which presumably meant that William had been kept out of it , at least so far as the decor was concerned . |
| 7 | Between them , they tumbled out the whole story , the peacocks , the stone lions , Evelyn 's mum , Mrs Grace , the notice going up about Hambury — everything . |
| 8 | They shared out the thick broth and dipped their bread in it , licking their fingers . |
| 9 | But they wiped away the national disgrace of Wednesday 's defeat to America 's soccer novices by outfighting one of the favourites to win next year 's World Cup here in the States . |
| 10 | Suddenly they zoomed up the social scale . |
| 11 | For they always avoided towns and traffic ; they avoided also the larger roads which became turnpikes in the eighteenth century and were subject to tolls , and they were short-turfed for the cattle and sheep , grazing as they went . |
| 12 | But after 74 miles , they were all together as they charged up the last climb to the finishing line . |
| 13 | In fact the what , they found out the sacred secret , that 's enlightened them to the Hebrew though |
| 14 | Yeah but , like you say that the to find , to find out the real truth you have to refer to Hebrew anyway because they found out the sacred secret of God did n't they ? |
| 15 | And then they f—ed up the whole world . |
| 16 | They wandered down the cobbled streets to the Riviera , across the Villa Comunale and then over Via Caracciolo to the balustrade that separated them from the boulders that sat on the edge of the sea . |
| 17 | They received much the same reaction as we did . |
| 18 | But what is really relevant is to state that against Ireland they played absolutely the right sort of game and they played it with utter conviction and quite brilliant execution . |
| 19 | In the darkness they seemed not the amusing and-loveable clowns they were meant to be but somehow menacing . |
| 20 | He had , of course , known those grandparents whose glamour made Alexandra 's existence so difficult , but he saw them in a light so different from his wife 's that they seemed hardly the same people . |
| 21 | Charles squeezed her hand as they drove up the winding sunlit road to the peak . |
| 22 | As they drove out the next funeral cortège was coming up the drive . |
| 23 | He turned as they came up the spiral wrought-iron staircase . |
| 24 | ‘ I expect they came back the next day , or the next week ? ’ |
| 25 | And they came back the next day to build shelters for the Feast of Tabernacles , in obedience to the law 's commands . |
| 26 | One of the most fascinating scientific experiments of recent years showed that when people ate meals at a rapid rate they became hungry again more quickly than when they ate precisely the same size of meal at a slower rate . |
| 27 | They fulfilled rather the same role as extern sisters in contemplative convents today . |
| 28 | As they dropped down the steep winding road , the sky was a brilliant blue , the sun gleaming on the gilt weathervane of the church and on the butter-and-honey-coloured buildings . |
| 29 | They abolished both the metropolitan counties and the GLC . |
| 30 | But Robbie Supple had been keeping his powder dry on Very Very Ordinary and there was nothing in the least ‘ ordinary ’ about the long , relentless charge with which they mowed down the leading pair between the last two fences . |