Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon afterwards they became respectively the Pretender 's Secretary of State and one of his leading generals . |
| 2 | Still they kept chanting , knowing that if they stopped now the spell would run out of control and all their work would be undone . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | The remembered light on the empty hayfields would grow magical , the green shade of the beeches would give out a delicious coolness as they tasted again the sardines between slices of bread : when they were away the house would become the summer light and shade above their whole lives . |
| 5 | Accounts by the first space-travelling visitors to the planet say that they found even the rocks and plants coming after them , but that has since been shown to have been normal travelogue exaggeration . |
| 6 | Yeah , they played well the year before they held their own see they 've got all the |
| 7 | They mounted both the hammer and its check on the key . |
| 8 | They drove home the Derry way , and as usual it set Mallachy off . |
| 9 | When you have a very small , very select , very ladylike grammar school , joined with two rough and ready secondary moderns what basically happened in my view is that when they joined together the grammar school staff , or most of them , could n't cope with the rough and ready aspect the school they came to have . |
| 10 | Couples and Love , America 's top two golfers this year , were irrepressible , gathering 13 birdies between them as they ripped apart the La Moraleja course , suggested as a venue for the 1997 Ryder Cup . |
| 11 | They stripped away the veneers of mystery . |
| 12 | That night , they dug away the earth and drew the nails from the planks and removed the great bars that had closed all the formal entrances into the city , and completed the bridging of the ditch that led to the land gate . |
| 13 | As they climbed so the flak followed them ; as they dived so it came down to harry them . |
| 14 | They threatened only the privileges of the poor . |
| 15 | Since the companies set the price , they determined both the amount of profit per bbl from extracting it and the amount of tax the ‘ host government ’ could levy on the process . |
| 16 | They bade both the merchant and his paramour adieu . |
| 17 | On the evidence available from their thorough training sessions and the way they brushed aside the challenge from a truly competitive outfit here , it is hard to see these All Blacks returning home as ‘ failures ’ . |
| 18 | They followed instead the verdict of 1225 , and declared that all Surrey was out of the forest . |
| 19 | The gang had played monopoly as they wiled away the hours , perhaps dreaming of Park Lane and Mayfair . |
| 20 | Cosloy , impressed , invited the band over to play at this summer 's New Music Seminar in New York , where they pulled apart the Knitting Factory with a glorious show that proved to be one of the most talked about of the week . |
| 21 | Since the first printers often did not use a front title-page , or did not include on it all the important information we are accustomed to see there today , they employed instead the device known as the colophon ( from a Greek word variously translated as ‘ summit ’ , ‘ top ’ and ‘ finishing stroke ’ ) right at the end of the main text and , normally , before the index . |
| 22 | In opposition , they likewise shifted right ( Britain ) or , if they started nearer the centre ( Germany ) , just waited for the inevitable disillusionment with conservatism to set in . |
| 23 | Not wanting to take any risks , they brought forward the dates for the 1992 tournament to September . |
| 24 | Of course , outputting them at 300dpi meant making some sacrifices so Adobe build in a mechanism for improving the shapes of the characters at low resolution , the technique is called hinting , and to protect their investment they encrypted both the typefaces and the hinting method so that the faces would only work properly with their own version of PostScript . |
| 25 | They blew away the chauffeur 's head with a machine gun . |
| 26 | Donald , Pringle , Snell and McMillan all looked healthily hostile as they blew away the cream of Australian batting for under 200 , and Hudson showed touches of class as South Africa won by nine wickets . |
| 27 | They took away the telephone after Gran tried to telephone Buckingham Palace to complain to the Queen . ’ |
| 28 | In fact , in a lot of cases where they took away the rights for |
| 29 | From the Canadian premises they took away the consuls of Canada , Ireland , the USA and Australia , but subsequently released them . |
| 30 | I was very apprehensive and the fact that they took away the radio at the same time made our suspicions worse . |