Example sentences of "[noun sg] they [vb past] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the far side they came to the Sierra de Quareca , hills which , though not particularly high , did give the party — many of them clad in heavy metal cuirasses and leg-armour — some relief from the steamy , insect-ridden heat of the lowlands . |
| 2 | In the aft compartment they went through the routine exercise of listening to the remaining six missiles and found what they had expected , nothing . |
| 3 | After he had made a pot of tea they sat near the range and surveyed each other . |
| 4 | Rob Phone , Mr and Mrs National Holidays , and the journalist they met on the train have all gone their separate ways now , but perhaps a little enriched , a little relaxed , by a modicum of light , meaningless conversation . |
| 5 | Based on Kodak 's experience , one should expect that 40% to 60% of ideas should be lost during the first two stages , with the idea originators having screened themselves out of the process as a consequence of the feedback they received through the review process . |
| 6 | She had expected to return home with full payment for the shoes she 'd made , but it seemed the theatre people were not too quick in settling bills , a practice they shared with the gentry . |
| 7 | From trees and undergrowth they fired at the victors again and again , as they swarmed over the wall in twos and threes , then in dozens and scores , and finally in hundreds . |
| 8 | ‘ The deal they escaped by the skin of their teeth was SMS , ’ Forster says . |
| 9 | The key they found under the floor-mat in the car , or wherever . |
| 10 | In the winter they kept to the roads or , if the earth were hard with frost , they might play on Thrush Green with a bat and ball in view of Paul 's home . |
| 11 | Living five hundred years before Christ , when there was not much in the way of religious encounter between the Middle East and the Further East , their spiritual greatness and the influence they exerted on the people of their own area and era , raised questions in the mind of any would-be missionary . |
| 12 | Former US President Jimmy Carter , one of a team of several hundred international observers , described the electoral process as " free and honest " , and congratulated the armed forces " for the remarkable work they performed during the elections " . |
| 13 | He fished the cubes out and put them into an ashtray and found it all he could do not to weep at the mess they made with the ash . |
| 14 | It has been the deliberate policy of the Supplement to give these the prominence they lacked during the period when the OED was being edited . |
| 15 | Maybe there was a draught from the window they smashed at the back of the house . |
| 16 | One study of day-release trade union students found that the most important benefit they identified from the courses was not simply enhanced skills and smoother communications with management , but a general gain in confidence ; judged by the ‘ needs-meeting ’ paradigm , it was an overwhelming success . |
| 17 | An application by the defendants to the High Court in 1990 to discharge the order on the ground that the benefit they obtained from the publication of the book was not a benefit within the meaning of the Criminal Justice Act 1988 was unsuccessful . |
| 18 | He asked his Chairman for a private chat they retired to the gents and Gould who had no contract said he was finished . |
| 19 | So although those carers in the action sample were grateful for the help they received from the Home Support Project ( and almost without exception carers throughout the action samples expressed the same sentiment ) , there is scant evidence that it contributed to allaying feelings of strain . |
| 20 | Detectives praised the help they received from the public , saying the artist 's impression of Katherine 's attacker helped greatly to bring about a conviction . |
| 21 | The Quakers , in particular , had obvious reasons for continuing to support James , for the toleration they enjoyed towards the end of his reign was far more extensive than that allowed under the Toleration Act of 1689 . |
| 22 | It was too late to do any worthwhile damage and with some regret they came to the conclusion that it was best not to place any bombs . |
| 23 | Malcolm Crosby 's men will be trying to make their survival mathematically certain against Swindon tonight , and if they can produce the gritty determination they showed at the Goldstone Ground and eradicate silly defensive errors any lingering doubts should soon be over . |
| 24 | It 's like the little Japanese girl they found in the ruins of Hiroshima . |
| 25 | The change involved no religious problems because the larger colony had been launched for much the same reasons : a number of Puritans , of whom the largest single group came from East Anglia , had formed the Massachusetts Bay Company and obtained a charter to settle there in a firm determination to cut themselves off from England and the elements of Roman Catholicism they detected in the Church of England . |
| 26 | He fired these questions at them the moment they walked in the kitchen . |
| 27 | That was evident the moment they stepped into the dining-room . |
| 28 | Thus the ‘ Originals ’ were in a sense on probation from the moment they clambered into the lorries which took them to Kabrit . |
| 29 | The terrifying flame-throwers had now largely become suicide weapons , an immediate target the moment they appeared in the open . |
| 30 | She liked the way it stood , distinct and certain , rising out of the level muddy waste of grass and tarmac that generously surrounded it : a bomb had fallen during the war , on a neighbouring chapel , and the site had been levelled out and was now an unofficial part of the school 's playgrounds The whole area was of a bleak airiness , and a cold wind seemed to blow incessantly upon it , turning the knees and knuckles of the girls pink and blue , and snatching away their obligatory berets the moment they emerged from the school porch . |