Example sentences of "[noun] they [vb past] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The hall just could n't cope and after six songs they retreated to the dressing room . |
| 2 | On the far side they came to the Sierra de Quareca , hills which , though not particularly high , did give the party — many of them clad in heavy metal cuirasses and leg-armour — some relief from the steamy , insect-ridden heat of the lowlands . |
| 3 | Whatever momentous steps they took in the Devonian , the lungfish and lobe fins have been very conservative since , for the living lungfish are clearly similar to their Palaeozoic relatives and coelacanth lobe fins like the living genus ( Latimeria ) are known from Cretaceous rocks . |
| 4 | That Mrs Aggie no longer went ragging in The Courts , but , instead , encouraged the children to bring what rags they had to the yard , there to receive their candy rock , and also the women to come on a Sunday morning to the barn and buy what they wanted , she knew was very wise . |
| 5 | In the aft compartment they went through the routine exercise of listening to the remaining six missiles and found what they had expected , nothing . |
| 6 | After he had made a pot of tea they sat near the range and surveyed each other . |
| 7 | Rob Phone , Mr and Mrs National Holidays , and the journalist they met on the train have all gone their separate ways now , but perhaps a little enriched , a little relaxed , by a modicum of light , meaningless conversation . |
| 8 | There was always a hunger for newspapers and magazines ( usually preferred to books ) and he 'd heard of baptizers in Patashoqua who named children by stabbing a copy of the London Times with a pin and bequeathing the first three words they pricked upon the infant , however unmusical the combination . |
| 9 | The only words they exchanged during the engagements were to discuss which side of the car they were going to step out of . |
| 10 | Based on Kodak 's experience , one should expect that 40% to 60% of ideas should be lost during the first two stages , with the idea originators having screened themselves out of the process as a consequence of the feedback they received through the review process . |
| 11 | At best , this will help to ensure that black workers remain in those employment sectors they entered in the boom years of the 50 's and 60's . |
| 12 | She had expected to return home with full payment for the shoes she 'd made , but it seemed the theatre people were not too quick in settling bills , a practice they shared with the gentry . |
| 13 | They had failed to change with the times , so the speeches they wrote for the Queen did her no favours . |
| 14 | From trees and undergrowth they fired at the victors again and again , as they swarmed over the wall in twos and threes , then in dozens and scores , and finally in hundreds . |
| 15 | ‘ The deal they escaped by the skin of their teeth was SMS , ’ Forster says . |
| 16 | The high quality of the Gulf pearls and the fact that the fisheries were controlled by Arabs ensured that from the market at Bandar e Lengeh on the Iranian coast not far west of the Gulf of Hormuz they entered into the trade network of the Indian Ocean and adjacent areas . |
| 17 | The issues raised by this and subsequent questions go to the heart of the debate on the Compensation Fund , and it is apparent that many of those who answered negatively felt to varying degrees that in the present commercial climate the public could no longer expect the entire profession to compensate them for any losses they suffered at the hands of a tiny minority of errant solicitors — particularly as no comparable compensation was available from the providers of other professional services . |
| 18 | The key they found under the floor-mat in the car , or wherever . |
| 19 | Within a few months they moved to the east coast of Scotland where they were allocated a large stretch of coastline , from Rosyth to Montrose , to protect from the very real threat of German invasion . |
| 20 | In the winter they kept to the roads or , if the earth were hard with frost , they might play on Thrush Green with a bat and ball in view of Paul 's home . |
| 21 | They longed for the hats and shoes they saw in the Galeries Lafayette . |
| 22 | Living five hundred years before Christ , when there was not much in the way of religious encounter between the Middle East and the Further East , their spiritual greatness and the influence they exerted on the people of their own area and era , raised questions in the mind of any would-be missionary . |
| 23 | Former US President Jimmy Carter , one of a team of several hundred international observers , described the electoral process as " free and honest " , and congratulated the armed forces " for the remarkable work they performed during the elections " . |
| 24 | He fished the cubes out and put them into an ashtray and found it all he could do not to weep at the mess they made with the ash . |
| 25 | From the dead limbs they cried at the moon , pecked at the wind-shattered stubs where winter had stripped the branches from these creeping giants , added their own anger to the screaming from the split and rotting bark . |
| 26 | In the south around the centres of population part-time farmers worked mainly in urban areas as teachers , advisers or tradesmen , whilst in more remote areas they worked in the forests , in the hydro-electricity industry , or as lorry/bus drivers . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | However , the proximity of Mr. Tee to Winchester , as it was perceived by Norwich , did cause concern to Norwich , and on 11 May they wrote to the applicant , requesting that he ensured ‘ that [ Mr. Tee ] does not attend Winchester Group 's premises or is in any way involved with the running of the business . ’ |
| 29 | Maybe there was a draught from the window they smashed at the back of the house . |
| 30 | One study of day-release trade union students found that the most important benefit they identified from the courses was not simply enhanced skills and smoother communications with management , but a general gain in confidence ; judged by the ‘ needs-meeting ’ paradigm , it was an overwhelming success . |