Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] [adv prt] of the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After driving to Rolls Wood Group [ Repair & Overhauls ] Ltd , they tried to get out of the car . |
| 2 | Around the inner walls the Annamese soldiers of the imperial guard , who looked as if they 'd stepped out of the pages of one of his adventure-story books , stood sentinel with their muskets . |
| 3 | Bradford showed little of the enterprising approach that has been helping them shed a dour image this season , but it was not until the 64th minute that they began to slide out of the contest . |
| 4 | As they began to rush out of the shops , the bombs exploded . |
| 5 | But this time , everyone was on George Merry 's side , and they began to climb out of the hole . |
| 6 | At first , they enjoyed looking out of the windows , but then they became sleepy . |
| 7 | But they insisted to go out of the front . ’ |
| 8 | They did n't get far , of course , but they managed to get out of the prison itself … ’ |
| 9 | As they had stumbled out of the incident room , new names were already being scribbled up on the action boards with blue marker pens — yet more people to be trawled by the team of detective constables . |
| 10 | As they talked they had moved out of the pub , back into the sunlit streets . |
| 11 | Granny picked up the last of the things they had cleared out of the cupboards and looked at it . |
| 12 | They had poured out of the back room in an interval of the singing and were fighting for the bar with empty glasses , when Mallachy dug Rory sharply in the side . |
| 13 | They had dropped out of the human chain of ancestors and descendants that had formerly bound them all together . |
| 14 | They had climbed out of the dunes and were walking now along the canal bank towards the pill-box and the Lock gates . |
| 15 | She had tried to explain this feeling to Gay and Felicity , when they had come out of the Jade Cockatoo on their last night together ; but she had known all the time that it was n't a thing that could be explained . |
| 16 | They had come out of the Hearing without their children , and without knowing how long it might be before they were able to be together again . |
| 17 | The jurors who had made the perambulations in 1225 were summoned to explain why they had put out of the forest districts which had been forest before 1154 , and also royal demesnes . |
| 18 | She wondered why he did n't step across it ; he reminded her of the white mice they had let out of the cage one day . |
| 19 | Until they had got out of the car to phone , Maxim had never seen Sims standing up . |
| 20 | They had passed out of the daylight into the comparative dimness of the castle interior . |
| 21 | If they had been advised as to the necessity for clear offers in writing with terms set out from the bank , their case is that they would have taken that advice , they would have waited for the bank offer and if and when it had not been suitable for them they would not have exchanged and their case is also that er once things had gone er very badly wrong and they wanted to get out of the contract if they had been advised as to the way out er then er they would have been er of that , they would have served notice and they would have got out of the contract . |