Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sometimes a head-on collision with a lorry seems inevitable , but somehow at the last moment we or they swerve out of the way . |
| 2 | There are no hotel bills , they chip in for the petrol and food and everybody 's happy . ’ |
| 3 | As for the three goblins , they crept back to the king of the vookodlaks and he beat them all , and made them stand on their heads in the mud for three years and thirty days . |
| 4 | After their terribly exciting bridge crossing , they hopped back over the shallows and headed back to their mini-van . |
| 5 | The children marched down the stairs , the nun coming behind , and in the hall they met up with the older girls and , now forming two files , they walked , hands joined as if in prayer , slowly along a corridor , and into the chapel . |
| 6 | When they met up with the rest of the Carlisle Flint team Kate tried to ignore the studiously impassive face of Mike Booker as he greeted her . |
| 7 | At Podromanija they met up with the Swedish relief convoy of 10 trucks , 9½ being filled with food and the remainder with medical supplies . |
| 8 | They gazed down at the innocent football being kicked back and forth against the wall outside , the thwack of the ball booming in the street amongst the traffic noise . |
| 9 | Eventually , they got around to the main purpose of the visit . |
| 10 | Well we had a old wooden crane aboard the dredger , that was all hand power , that 's just the old wooden derrick and when they got up to the , up to the dock , they had a , cos they had a crane paint with it or a steam crane . |
| 11 | Nelson had planned to take her to town , but when they got up to the car park he could n't get his car to start . |
| 12 | And they all , they got up in the morning and I was n't home still |
| 13 | They finished their drinks and as they got up from the table Fernando plucked a sprig of jasmine from the pergola . |
| 14 | A team of researchers from Bristol University was commissioned to examine what the YTS had to offer young black people and to indicate how they got on during the first six months of the scheme ( S. Fenton , Ethnic Minorities and the Youth Training Scheme Research and Development Series , no. 20 , MSC , 1984 ) . |
| 15 | But it quickly vanished as they got on with the morning 's proceedings . |
| 16 | Gone are the days when professionals left the business of fees , commissions , variation charges , reimbursables and the rest to underlings whilst they got on with the interesting work . |
| 17 | They got on to the airfield that night and started to place their bombs , but as the aircraft were widely dispersed , this took time in the dark . |
| 18 | They got on to the field without difficulty in the middle of a bombing raid by the RAF on Benghazi , and sat there while their leader gave them a lecture on deer-stalking in the Highlands . |
| 19 | Before they got on to the subject of the commune they had been discussing which item of Hilbert 's former property they should sell next . |
| 20 | The traffic into Belfast was heavy , and it was a while before they got on to the motorway . |
| 21 | I 'm anxious to know how they got on in the woods because Otley 's always nice going in and nasty when we 're coming out . |
| 22 | The 1993 event started in York on 14 February and we will report on how they got on in the next issue . |
| 23 | Well we 've talked football , we 've talked speedway , we 're now going to talk rugby , because if you 've been following the exploits of the Bicester Rugby Club , you 'll know they got through to the semi-finals of a big national competition , and they play that semi-final this coming Saturday . |
| 24 | Hurley had not forgiven him for the loss of Syrian George , and he was still under heavy pressure from Washington to show results , but in general Coleman made sure they got along for the sake of his back-channel reports to MC/10 Control . |
| 25 | They would chat away to her about their day until they got down to the schoolwork . |
| 26 | before they got down to the autographs . |
| 27 | It was only when they got down to the particular that problems arose . |
| 28 | And erm , after that they got down to the serious business ! |
| 29 | Well they got down in the grass you see . |
| 30 | And they got out at the very top . ’ |