Example sentences of "they [verb] [vb pp] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They lay packed together in the gloom , trying to make themselves comfortable on the wires . |
| 2 | They got called up by the Cabinet Office . |
| 3 | The boaters , 4 adults and 4 children were sailing on the River Severn , when they got swept up by the Severn bore . |
| 4 | He went on to describe the drivers swearing as they got snarled up in the midday Cairo traffic . |
| 5 | I was told I could see him for an hour but they got held up on the way and I was rushed through the visit . |
| 6 | It was his intention to aid Larsen in evacuating the kids from the upper levels , before they became trapped there by the fire . |
| 7 | When they 'd gone through into the lecture hall , I noticed the professor staring after them with a very odd look on his face — a stunned , frozen look . |
| 8 | I assaulted this position from every angle , ranging from thoughtful analyses of the male mid-life crisis , its nature and origins , to sweeping ad absurdum dismissals in which I demonstrated that by the same token Trish and Brian were equally culpable , because if they 'd gone out for the day I would have stayed at home and we would never have met in the first place . |
| 9 | The floorboards had n't snapped , as I 'd originally thought : they 'd gone down into the dock with Harry . |
| 10 | He 'd forgotten to shut up his dogs ; they 'd waited patiently outside the front door . |
| 11 | They 'd moved away from the office district and she was now in an area of sandwich shops , electrical stores and ticket agencies where the traffic was heavier and the pavement crowds more dense . |
| 12 | When they 'd landed back on the plate , he leaned forward , studying the pattern they 'd formed . |
| 13 | For their tickets , and I said at the area council if they had turned up like they turned up to pay them thirty pound and eight pound , if they 'd turned up at the same time with a petition form what a difference it would |
| 14 | Around the inner walls the Annamese soldiers of the imperial guard , who looked as if they 'd stepped out of the pages of one of his adventure-story books , stood sentinel with their muskets . |
| 15 | McGowan vanished with a couple they 'd brought home in the car . |
| 16 | Donna sat in the sitting-room , glancing endlessly at the sheets of paper they 'd picked up from the bank that day and also at the notes Ward had left . |
| 17 | They 'd talked little on the way back , Delaney desperately trying to find another reason , however unlikely , for Connors not briefing him fully . |
| 18 | Here 's an imag-inary line-up Leeds might be fielding now if they 'd held on to the stars they rejected . |
| 19 | The police explained why they 'd held on to the vehicles which were being kept near Malvern , not at Worcester . |
| 20 | Other jobs they 'd pulled off over the years that we can nail them for . ’ |
| 21 | And you could bet that the moment he 'd left they 'd sat down in the shade . |
| 22 | ‘ I was frantic that they 'd found out about the flat , where she lived . |
| 23 | On Nathan 's last morning they 'd driven down to the supermarket together . |
| 24 | As they staggered out of their tepees and another faultless day came smooching in from the Pacific , they would sniff the honeyed air and ask one another what they 'd got up to the previous night . |
| 25 | Note the startling sparsity of adjectives : she uses them only when she is forced to , so they seem pressed out of the nouns through sheer weight of need . |
| 26 | At the bottom of Great Brunswick Street , they swung left around by the main entrance to Trinity . |
| 27 | Anyone with a suspected heart condition or serious bleeding or a major fracture or head injury comes first , though , and every time an ambulance brings someone , they get seen immediately in the trolley area . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ On the continent , if managers do that they get kicked out by the players . ’ |
| 29 | She suspects that she may get rather more exposure to outpatient clinics and theatre sessions than her medical colleagues because they get bogged down on the wards with tasks that she is not allowed to do . |
| 30 | The roads are bumpy and uncertain and when they do get on a half decent stretch , they get pulled over by the police : they 're not supposed to be on it . |