Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] the [noun sg] " 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 | Carefully , the major turned the conversation to an Iranian editorial he had seen , and they laid down the subject . |
| 6 | So they rode up the Water of Milk , Jardine country , and through the empty Tundergarth Hills to Eskdale , Armstrong territory . |
| 7 | As they rode down the village , George noted how clean and tidy it was . |
| 8 | Together they made up the Board of the Greencloth , named , like the Exchequer , from the cloth which covered their working table . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They passed back the way they had come , past the gleaming white walls and up the stairs . |
| 13 | And that was all that mattered as they cruised down the freeway , alone together in Zitney 's gleaming red hatchback . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They wiped out the majority of them . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | They read up the transport laws at university and all that transport and everything . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Still they kept chanting , knowing that if they stopped now the spell would run out of control and all their work would be undone . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | As they worked they monitored continuously the condition of the sea and the sky , the direction of the wind and the length of the day and the night . |
| 26 | A tiny patch of blue punctured the dark blanket of sky , and the sun peeped out from a corner of the horizon as they headed down the beach , not stopping until they reached a small rocky promontory shaded by bushy casuarinas . |
| 27 | They firmed down the earth and put a brick to mark the spot . |
| 28 | Four of the watchers , experienced men , not easy to shock , had to undergo therapy as they described how the figure of the youth was picked up and hurled twenty yards towards them , like a rag doll , first flying , then bouncing and rolling in a twisted assembly of disjointed limbs . |
| 29 | and they , they beat out the rhythm in much the same way |
| 30 | Yeah , they played well the year before they held their own see they 've got all the |