Example sentences of "they [verb] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The outfits were not particularly tight-fitting , yet they revealed much of their splendid physical development and amazing muscle definition . |
| 2 | They strafed one of the airfields , claiming one bomber destroyed and several damaged . |
| 3 | He had not made up his mind what to say to him , so spent time establishing a position in the Reading Room , under the high dome , which , however high , held , he felt , insufficient oxygen for all the diligent readers , so that they lay somnolent like flames dying in Humphry Davy 's bell-jar as their sustenance was consumed . |
| 4 | However , like many of their relatives they gain much of their nourishment from symbiotic algae , zooxanthellae which live in the tissues of the polyp and photosynthesise to produce food in chemical form for the host animal . |
| 5 | Some people thought that with the mitre on his white hair he looked like one of the effigies on the tombs of the prelates which they met recumbent in cathedrals , and fancied that here was a bishop out of the Middle Ages . |
| 6 | After the snowstorm , there was fog , and in the fog , they got lost on an ice river with hundreds of big holes in it . |
| 7 | Can we assume they got lost in the dark on their way ? |
| 8 | They got hung-up about status even though you explained it to them . |
| 9 | They ran out on Saturday to a cautious welcome from a crowd of 1,823 ( the best this season and lowest of the day ) a week after losing to Doncaster : it was not so much that Doncaster had scored their first away goals of the season , rather that they got six without reply . |
| 10 | Customs have now returned the Skin 2 tapes ( perhaps they got bored with them ) , but still seem gripped by the American mags , the comics and the fetish art . |
| 11 | After weeks of this game , they got bored with Mrs Sugar , since she never turned up , no matter how long they watched for her . |
| 12 | After weeks of this game , they got bored with Mrs Sugar , since she never turned up , no matter how long they watched for her . |
| 13 | They got tired of waiting for you ! ’ |
| 14 | Now somebody said they got involved in prequalification meetings , yeah . |
| 15 | And erm they got married in eighteen ninety nine . |
| 16 | They did n't move either until they got one of the old horsemen : he got them away without any trouble . ’ |
| 17 | They er they used to come at the first , and I 'll tell you this and I , it 's my opinion , they got one of their own men er I 'd foxed them off , you know what I mean , to do their own odd jobs . |
| 18 | those fellers fought to keep those mines open and they got one of lot miners divided and said oh bugger them ! |
| 19 | Of course they got used to it , just as they got used to the closing of the railway , the death of the last squire , the demolition of the hall , the theft of the common land . |
| 20 | Of course they got used to it , just as they got used to the closing of the railway , the death of the last squire , the demolition of the hall , the theft of the common land . |
| 21 | Eventually they got used to it and allowed it to stay . |
| 22 | For them , classic clothes no longer have to be fussy or stuffy — an increasing number of British men want classic style , but wo n't give up the comfortable feel of the designer clothes they got used to in the Eighties . |
| 23 | If I got one what was a bit tricky I used to perhaps tie him to the gate , but they got used to it . |
| 24 | Soon the two partners had landed on the mountain top , and they got busy among the berry bushes . |
| 25 | The young ones , as always , made a frightful racket as they got ready for bed . |
| 26 | The next day they got wet in a thunderstorm . |
| 27 | Later , as dusk began to fall , they got sentimental about each other and began to cry . |
| 28 | That 's why sometimes they got mad at him because they knew he was talking to them and about them and they knew that it applied to them . |
| 29 | It was as if they should simply fade away when they got old like the soldiers they represented on stage . |
| 30 | Otherwise what they got some of the latest cranes out down there , you had to come off the barrel , go up the jib , come down again , then up again . |