Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv prt] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This could help to give substance to what is meant by the spiritual dimension , for both of them lived out the kind of character expressed in the middle column of Table 6.1 . |
| 2 | A ten-minute soak worked wonders on Merrill 's jaded sense of well-being , and when she went down she found the three of them seated around a huge log fire . |
| 3 | The Babylonian Jews were loyal to the Seleucids ; 8,000 of them fought off an attack of marauding Ga ] atians , according to the Second Book of Maccabees ( 8.20 ) . |
| 4 | One of them got out the ugliest looking knife that I have seen to cut a piece of string or something on his bicycle . |
| 5 | Some of them made up the remnants of a tiny battery , source identified . |
| 6 | Two of them came round a while ago and they said , ‘ Our pigeon 's on your roof , miss , can we go up your house and get it down through your loft ? ’ |
| 7 | Hot , bitter tears rolled down her cheeks , and with them came back the noise of the street . |
| 8 | Although Goodman and Peckinpah are credited with the screenplay , all three of them hammered out a final script . |
| 9 | One of them switched on the light , her finger tips painted with a silvery pearl , and the other switched it off with an animal claw . |
| 10 | Four or five of them broke down the door of the Admiral Benbow and ran inside . |
| 11 | The five of them scrambled up the narrow carpeted stairway . |
| 12 | And they watched from the sidelines as Mr and Mrs Grierson between them brought up the baby , Carla . |
| 13 | One of them fell over a coffee table and threw a whole trayful of bits and pieces on Carrie Donovan and Harry Pritchett . |
| 14 | Three girls came into the line of fire , each wearing a student nurse 's uniform , walking quickly , but gossiping as they went , and laughing , their heads constantly turning to whichever of them took up the conversation . |
| 15 | They were jumping up and putting their paws up so they I went up back upstairs and they sk tried to skid up but they were going so quickly that one of them went down the step again . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | They got down the escarpment on to the coastal plain without mishap and drove along a dirt track beside Benina airfield . |
| 18 | They got out a bag containing balloons and presents for Harry 's birthday bash , which will be held without his parents . |
| 19 | When they got back the little house was empty . |
| 20 | When they got back the airport hotel seemed like home but his money was running out . |
| 21 | They pinned down the boards and laid new felt and carpet — unaware Mike was underneath . |
| 22 | In Ayr , they lived in a little thatched cottage and Bel obtained employment as a washer-woman to support herself and her son , albeit in the dire poverty of her class in that time . |
| 23 | Carefully , the major turned the conversation to an Iranian editorial he had seen , and they laid down the subject . |
| 24 | Portadown were firmly in the driving seat as they pegged back the Dublin side inside their 25 , with Loreto relying on the break . |
| 25 | So they rode up the Water of Milk , Jardine country , and through the empty Tundergarth Hills to Eskdale , Armstrong territory . |
| 26 | As they rode down the village , George noted how clean and tidy it was . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Just the same refuges of the elderly also appear in the Social Survey of Merseyside of 1934 , where they made up a third of the tenants of the largest multiple households . |
| 29 | She was home but , like him , an exile : together they made up a little principality but it was inside the great metropolis . |
| 30 | Every clan has a different colour , and they made up a special shade for us . ’ |