Example sentences of "they [vb past] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She had spurned the hypocritical cant beloved of politicians and addressed herself directly to the people , showing how well she knew them , telling them what they whispered in their hearts but dared not speak , calling their bluff ! |
| 2 | They pierced into her sleep like some guttural -voiced metal beast , tearing at her ; breathing a terror . |
| 3 | They shared with the foresters a general responsibility for the safe keeping of vert and venison , the sheriff could seize their lands if they failed in their duty . |
| 4 | Since Everest he has concentrated on small , alpine style trips , climbing Rimo II in 1988 with Nick Kekus , and Makalu II with Victor Saunders in 1989 , although they failed in their main objective of traversing Makalu . |
| 5 | Today rebels attempted to persuade one hundred and forty workers who 'd not yet signed the agreement to battle on , but they failed in their bid to stop them from signing the deal . |
| 6 | ‘ It could be that I 've simply never felt strongly enough about anyone , ’ she cut in , instantly wishing the words unsaid as she realised how much they revealed about her feelings for him . |
| 7 | Her hair was crawling with insects ; they clung to her eyebrows and eyelashes , were sucked into her nostrils and swarmed into the crevices and cornices of her ears , into all the narrow loops and whorls , they poured in a dark river down the back of her dress between her shoulderblades and down the front between her breasts . |
| 8 | Her hard little breasts poked out under her sweater ; they did n't wobble , they clung to her twisting body . |
| 9 | They clung to their children , though , sharing them equally , neither partner prepared to let go . |
| 10 | As they clung to their one point lead , they tackled ferociously , but one marginal infringement cost the game . |
| 11 | As they clung to their one point lead , they tackled ferociously , but one marginal infringement cost the game . |
| 12 | He tried to knock some aside but they clung to his fingers and a spider danced across his knuckles and disappeared up his sleeve . |
| 13 | One night they crept into our house but he had arranged for us to sleep on the roof whilst through a crack he could watch our sleeping chamber . |
| 14 | They met at his flat . |
| 15 | They met in her lounge , and Maria 's tilted smile faltered and then faded as she saw Luke 's expression , the glittering hostility with which the dark grey eyes swept the vivid marigold colour of her short tight skirt and her creamy blouse trimmed with handmade lace . |
| 16 | It seems likely they met in their respective offices or possibly at the Salisbury Club which was a new , but important , social and business focus in the town . |
| 17 | Since it was ostensibly in connection with the Zoser case , it was his business , and they met in his office . |
| 18 | They got to their target area without any great difficulty , the false ‘ Germans ’ being apparently accepted at checkpoints . |
| 19 | Remember what a dessert they got to their dinner at Falkirk . ’ |
| 20 | They got to their feet , drank their sherry , smiling a lot , and never went near each other again . |
| 21 | When they got to her door Sarella turned . |
| 22 | Cos they got to her house first cheat |
| 23 | Previously Manupur had been divided into a number of well-defined hereditary and hierarchically ordered groups or castes whose jobs , social status and economic relationships ( i.e. the share they got of their own and each other 's profits ) were pre-determined by tradition . |
| 24 | they got on my nerves them |
| 25 | Wigan may have begun the season with uncertainty in losing four out of their first nine games but , once they got into their stride , there was no stopping them . |
| 26 | One woman was so mean that she turned out all the lights immediately they got into their bedroom . |
| 27 | This went on for about two hours , and then they got into their boats and sailed away . |
| 28 | As soon as they got into her room , the girl started to undress , leaving her clothes where they fell . |
| 29 | She was still seething when they got into his luxury car , hired , he told her , as he did n't keep one of his own here , his visits to Taipei being infrequent and usually brief . |
| 30 | Crabbe heard that sound and saw that melancholy and they got into his verse . |