Example sentences of "they [vb past] [prep] [noun prp] [conj] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Matters did not improve when they got to Glenelg and found an appalling inn — although it did draw from Johnson one of his best remarks of the entire tour . |
| 2 | They rode to Queensferry and persuaded the master boatman , against his better judgement , to ferry them across the Firth of Forth to Inverkeithing . |
| 3 | They ruled over Rodez as counts Dei gratia and claimed the right to wear the iron crown of Rouergue . |
| 4 | They stopped at Melrose and arrived in Earlston the following morning . |
| 5 | They moved past Kaas and grabbed Adam , wrenching him away from Billie . |
| 6 | They moved to Sherburn-in-Elmet and set to their new task . |
| 7 | Instead they drove into Hadleigh and found an antique shop man who offered to drive to Wyvis Hall and give Adam a valuation for some of the furniture , the chandeliers and the ornaments . |
| 8 | erm I think it 's also true to say that if they came on Sunday and turned into the church hall for coffee and tea , they can smoke in there . |
| 9 | She learned about their ancestors from him , and how they came to Ireland and built Riverstown . |
| 10 | They forgot about Tavett and moved on to discuss Pascoe and how , when they came to think of it , he had looked very like a man waiting for a major heart attack . |
| 11 | They landed at Inverkeithing and made their way up the cliffs , the summer sun warming their backs , past Aberdour onto Kinghorn Ness , Corbett showing them the place King Alexander III allegedly fell , before going down the path to the royal manor . |
| 12 | They began in Scotland and to take just one example we are very lucky to have Muriel , an area representative , coordinating the programme in the Midlands . |
| 13 | Some flew to the wrong field and had to telephone around before they heard about Rosières and took off again . |
| 14 | The Ashleys fully appreciated how much they owed to Sybille and treated her with great respect and kindness ; faux pas , which from other members of staff would have met with icy reproofs , went scarcely noticed . |
| 15 | Marshalling began on 1 June , and then they embarked at Southsea and arrived at 19–00 hours , 6 June ( 'D' Day ) on the Normandy Coast at Le-Breche . |
| 16 | On the accession of Queen Elizabeth they returned to England and lived happily ever after . |
| 17 | They detrained at Libercourt and marched to their billets , A company in Wahagnies itself in schools and houses . |
| 18 | They went to Zliten and spent the night in a guestroom ; in the morning the Zliten boy asked to borrow the vehicle for a few moments , drove it away , smashed it and abandoned both the vehicle and his Zuwayi friend who had to find other means to get back to Benghazi . |
| 19 | But West Brom had a very good win this afternoon , they went to Blackburn and won three nil , so West Brom have leap frogged over both Oxford and Charlton ; they 're now in sixteenth place and Charlton drop to seventeenth , Oxford United to eighteenth with thirty two points . |
| 20 | They went to Chester and wandered round the medieval Rows , then took a rowing boat on the River Dee . |
| 21 | They went to Montpellier and quarrelled about Rembrandt . |
| 22 | That 's what these square , effete types did , I eventually figured : they listened to Bartok and bathed a lot . |