Example sentences of "[verb] they [vb past] [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the music stopped they looked at each other for a long moment , then reluctantly drew apart . |
| 2 | The two men found they agreed on many points about today 's press . |
| 3 | After conferring , the two signalmen decided to try and apprehend the person concerned , and after making sure that the control had been told of the situation and the boxes were safe to leave they walked towards each other , approaching the trespasser from opposite directions , so keeping him in view all the time and affording him little chance of escape . |
| 4 | he sez they went to several addresses but then the driver surrendered himself at the police station . |
| 5 | Almost everyone else in the world must have loved it , Benny thought grimly , all over the place people left cinemas humming the tune and wishing they looked like either Kay Kendall or Kenneth More . |
| 6 | The Bradwell School Board in the beginning comprised Rev A.C. Woodhouse , Messrs Ward , Wyllie , C.W. Powell ( Solicitor ) , and it appears they struggled for some years . |
| 7 | Programmes likely to produce such action ought , rather , to be spotted within the BBC in advance and either adjusted suitably or else supported by the Governors in such a way that the politicians would be quietly told , in effect , that if they wished to object they risked on this occasion a larger row than they might want . |
| 8 | " Where would a young man and woman go — assuming they landed in this city with little money and no contacts . " |
| 9 | She was a fine person and he knew they related to each other , shared the same sense of humour . |
| 10 | I think they spoke to each other but I did n't get a good look until I was sitting in Armstrong with the engine running . |
| 11 | Ron Todd , general secretary of the Transport and General Workers ' Union , said they found in this year 's dock strike that some judges had changed little since the days of the Tolpuddle Martyrs or Taff Vale . |