Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] they [vb past] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , another way of explaining this effect is to ask the subjects how they performed the experimental task . |
| 2 | Earlier this year , the Association des Amis du Musee du Chateau at Savigny-les-Beaune effected an exchange whereby they gained the Ouragon for restoration and the Aero Club gained a freshly-restored Mystere IVA on a specially-built ‘ tripod ’ . |
| 3 | He took a shuttle to the asteroid belt , he was the highest ranker there they started the race , to the belt they drove at a deadly pace no-one knows what happened that star date but we always knew poor Wes would have to wait as they pulled Will from the smoking wreck they heard him say in a terrible state bom bom bom bom tell Wesley I love him bom bom bom bom tell Wesley I need him , tell Wesley not to my love for him is never weak . |
| 4 | He took a shuttle to the asteroid belt , he was the highest ranker there they started the race , to the belt they drove at a deadly pace no-one knows what happened that star date but we always knew poor Wes would have to wait . |
| 5 | After explaining his love of art , he gave the police the opportunity to see some classic paintings for themselves by directing them to his parent 's house in Lyons where they recovered the Renoir and several other works . |
| 6 | Dressed as cowboys , they climbed aboard their trusty steeds ( 's Datsun ! ) and set off in the direction of the County Hall in Exeter where they ambushed the staff and persuaded them to hand over their readies . |
| 7 | Angrily , Martha flounced into the yard and flushed the chickens out of the bushes and into the pen where they passed the night , fiercely calling ‘ shi-shi ! ’ to the birds with the resentment she felt towards her unreasonable grandmother . |
| 8 | There must 've been with erm in forty seven was it the encirclement campaign where they allowed the nationalists to sort of drive through the , I do n't know the defences , they must 've been fairly certain of their support in certain areas by then . |
| 9 | A shout from the front of the wood called him back to the edge of the field , where men were watching a group of the enemy busy with spades on the high ground to his left , near the wood where they stationed the Normans . |
| 10 | The French Dragoons did not follow immediately ; instead they spurred into the abandoned wood where they found the Prussian camp-fires still burning . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's not a bad place , ’ he said , once they were in reception and the smoked glass shut out the small hut where they searched the hand-bags , and she 'd laughed and said ‘ All right ’ and they 'd signed in . |
| 12 | A moment later they heard the low clanging of alarms . |
| 13 | Then in 1947 they threw a bomb at the Red Cross cinema and two days later they attacked the Cairo Haifa train . |
| 14 | Several days later they entertained the Egyptian President , Anwar Sadat , and his wife Jihan on board the royal yacht . |
| 15 | they looked odds on to score everytime they touched the ball … but United somehow managed to hold out |
| 16 | Four years later they gave the 368 children left in the study standard reading and spelling tests . |
| 17 | For them it 's the latest … possbily the last great mountain challenge … three years ago they reached the top of Mount Kilimanjaro … two years ago they made for Mont Blanc and the Alps … |
| 18 | Five years ago they took the 1927 Grand National Winners Cup . |
| 19 | Two years ago they bought the seafront house as a weekend retreat . |
| 20 | Five years six years ago they introduced the postal wallets because they found that estate agents were sending the very expensive glossy brochures out in the post . |
| 21 | She was keen to learn , and his trust in her had grown to the point where they alternated the night watches so both had the opportunity for more rest . |
| 22 | Country weavers and knitters were to become better remembered for the long sad days of their early nineteenth-century decline , but they had happier days when they consumed the products made by their fellow artisans in Burslem , Sheffield and Birmingham . |
| 23 | Midge happened to be standing next to them in the shop where they got the bum 's rush . |
| 24 | Indeed , there was a moment when they seemed the oldest eyes in the world . |
| 25 | And they revelled in the moment when they mounted the famous ramp at Monte Carlo for photographs . |
| 26 | The village ha oh that place where they had the erm used goods sale ? |
| 27 | Five hours later they sent the radio message : ‘ It 's all over . ’ |
| 28 | When the recovery crew arrived two hours later they found the capsule was filling with water from the seven foot swell . |
| 29 | As was the case under the previous law , there is no power to ban specific as opposed to classes of marches , or all marches , and a proposal to the effect that there should be such a specific power was rejected , on the grounds that it would place the police in a situation where they would be subject to allegations of political motivation and partiality whenever they exercised the power to seek a ban on a particular march . |
| 30 | 20 minutes later they had the chance to strretch the lead . |