Example sentences of "they [vb past] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Utterly absorbed with their cooking , none of the Halflings had noticed the Wolf Riders as they sprung from the mountain valley , neatly enveloping the camp and driving a wedge between them and the rest of the Emperor 's army . |
| 2 | What did you think they lacked at the time ? |
| 3 | It has been the deliberate policy of the Supplement to give these the prominence they lacked during the period when the OED was being edited . |
| 4 | Now , belatedly , they tried to take them by force , an exercise in which they failed despite the loss of tens of thousands of irreplaceable soldiers . |
| 5 | If they failed at the game , Camazotz would swiftly behead them , and their spirits appeared as stars in the eastern sky . |
| 6 | They failed in the former endeavour but succeeded in the latter . |
| 7 | At one point tears rolled from his eyes ; they crept down the side of his face , and into his ears ; he continued to lie rigid . |
| 8 | Inside the garden , they crept towards the house , and now , for the first time , Oliver realized in horror that the purpose of the expedition was robbery , and maybe even murder . |
| 9 | Later , under cover of darkness , they crept into the house , where Charles hid for the night in the attic . |
| 10 | The woman had four other children by her marriage ; they crept into the room , peeped at Edouard , and crept away . |
| 11 | They crept onto the bridge without meeting the expected sentry . |
| 12 | They crept up the stairs but ca n't have got more than half way up when our cat , Pete , came scurrying down followed by the chopper and the lump of wood . |
| 13 | Cramlington illustrates real issues , in particular the extensive development gains made by the private developers on land they owned at the beginning of the whole process . |
| 14 | Something they cultivated after the Iraqi Gulf War . |
| 15 | It was argued that it unfairly penalized those who worked throughout their lives until their mid-sixties , but were thrown onto the Poor Law before they qualified for the pension . |
| 16 | Normally that would mean they qualified for the world indoor event , but Johnson has the option of appealing to Athletics Canada for one of Canada 's two 60m berths . |
| 17 | It was then that she noticed how gravely and interestedly he was looking at her , had looked at her ever since they met outside the shop . |
| 18 | They met outside the Social Services and he had pleaded with her to return to him and their home in Oxford . |
| 19 | ‘ They met with the president . |
| 20 | But but prior to doing that they met with the branch that had put the resolution in . |
| 21 | They met with the branch and discussed it with them and told them how it was out of order . |
| 22 | And he took two boards and fitted them to the body , one to the breast and the other to the shoulders ; these were so hollowed out and fitted that they met at the sides and under the arms , and the hind one came up to the pole , and the other up to the beard ; and these boards were fastened into the saddle , so that the body could not move . |
| 23 | They met at the Bab es Zuweyla , one of the old gates of Cairo , now the centre of the native city . |
| 24 | He had been fifteen years her senior when they met at the church door but he had been slimmer then , fleet as a greyhound , a veritable Hector on the battlefield and a Paris in the bedchamber . |
| 25 | They met on the Ponte Trinita , she seeing and calling out to him first . |
| 26 | They met on the set of the race car drama Days of Thunder in 1990 . |
| 27 | An attempt to contact Sparrow Force was made by Bernard Callinan , with a Dutch native soldier , whose experience as a schoolmaster and whose knowledge of Portuguese , English and Malay were invaluable in translating the polyglot languages of the different people they met on the westward journey . |
| 28 | They met on the polo field 20 years ago and the attraction was present from the start . |
| 29 | They met on the stairhead and Martin cried , ‘ You 've heard the news then ? ’ |
| 30 | They met on the Embankment this time , Alexander Rokovssky and the gentleman known as a diplomatic courier . |