Example sentences of "[adj] they [vb past] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this they went beyond the goals set by Zambia or Zimbabwe . |
| 2 | Instead of moving against the British they disappeared into the jungle and their Bogyoke announced , ‘ We are now at war ’ — at war with Japan . |
| 3 | Well I think it was I mean that erm we when you dredge from the Causeway I 'd say near the Harbourmaster 's office and we dredged all the way to Botterman 's Bay just below Pinmill and that Botterman 's Bay was that 's a place where they had and that 's where the big ships used to moor then and they used to get .. be lightened , like all grain goods and that used to be loaded into barges by hand and then when it goes so light they used to the fish with about three thousand grain in 'em and then they used to fill them up in the dock , on the same method . |
| 4 | I 'm afraid they came down the steps and chose the path leading away from me , so I only saw those three at a distance . |
| 5 | In April nineteen thirty-nine they went to the quay at Southampton to see them off on a three months ’ visit to the United States and Canada … ’ |
| 6 | In the reign of Henry III they accounted for the agistment dues at the Exchequer , but made substantial payments into the Wardrobe from time to time , and paid out sums locally for such purposes as the maintenance of a neighbouring royal castle , building operations , the enclosure of a royal park , and the expenses incurred by the Forest officers in taking venison for the king . |
| 7 | It is important , therefore , not to exaggerate the long-term effects of Anglo-American differences relating to Palestine , however serious they appeared at the time . |
| 8 | Straight and swift they dived into the sea after fish , dropping like stones , torpedoing downwards . |
| 9 | They were fed up with three-door cars , which ruled out one of three they considered at the time — the Vauxhall Nova , although this is now available in five-door . |
| 10 | Zoe , Hannah and Rebecca made sure they got into the picture too ! and the Bishop tested out his zuchetta for size on some of the smaller children , including Ryan ( left ) |
| 11 | The standard tactics were explained — alerting the membership in each union , by letter or leaflet , dispatching activists to local branches to pass resolutions supporting the paper and to make sure they got on the agenda of the union 's conferences . |
| 12 | Vicissitudes notwithstanding , six members from the North East made sure they got to the Albert Hall in April to applaud the fine performances by the Medau teams . |
| 13 | and you were sort of given the time and and and er er you know I 'm sure they paid for the books or whatever you needed |
| 14 | Harper raised the cudgel to drive away the beggars who swarmed ever more threateningly the closer they got to the Duke and Duchess of Richmond 's rented house . |
| 15 | The trees had thinned out a little , the closer they got to the coast , until they passed by the last of them and stepped on to sand that seemed to stretch endlessly in either direction . |
| 16 | All they had in the house was six eggs for scrambling and the remains of Ethel 's heart . |
| 17 | No they get nothing , they 'd get , all they went on the dole , well they used to get , they used to get erm , say yeah well you would get welfare benefit what we call the club , you go on the club and you see used t I , my , apparently had a private club , you could have both you see you had the private club and you got so much from the government , the National Health . |
| 18 | Between them Rain and Oliver told Cobalt almost all they knew about the night of the murder and about the paintings . |
| 19 | Once they had set off , Mr Smith and Mr Jones , for all their being well into their middle years , proceeded to behave like schoolboys , singing coarse songs and making even coarser comments on all they saw from the window . |
| 20 | That 's all they got off the union at that time of the day . |
| 21 | Next day they had taken the mirror and the pottery and the porcelain to Long Melford because there were more antique shops in Long Melford than anywhere else they had seen , but £20 was all they got for the lot . |
| 22 | One set was all they needed from the match but coach Tommy Dowens admitted the defeat left him a little flat in spite of the fact his team clinched the title . |
| 23 | Well some of them came by road and RAF trucks , the fuselages , and then there were all they started at the top of the airfield in the old flying club pavilion , and then they were er stripped down and stuff was taken off them , checked out , for airworthiness to see whether it was ready to go back on the planes , and then they came down to the back of the top hanger which was then they were all down to the skeleton of the aircraft and they started rebuilding them again like , there were engine shops and the place at the bottom hanger where they used to make the Swallow side-cars was the spraying and where they completed the aircraft . |
| 24 | Table 3.4 shows how many they employed over the course of the project , together with the number of clients held at the same time . |
| 25 | In 1981 they emigrated to the Province of Ontario and became Canadian citizens . |
| 26 | The Court could find no evidence that the parties intended to be liable on the contracts of the International Tin Council ; the obligations they envisaged were those they owed to the Council itself and not to third party creditors . |
| 27 | They were enumerated in the " families " of those they served from the aristocracy through the gentry and middle class to the farmers and shopkeepers . |
| 28 | In 548 they stayed in the Balkans for a whole year and destroyed many towns and fortresses , including the Byzantine centre of Lychnidus ( Ohrid ) . |
| 29 | And , yes , the further away the other pebbles , the faster they retreated into the distance . |
| 30 | During World War I they moved from the United States to Britain , where Grey Walter spent the rest of his life . |