Example sentences of "and they [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I would like to go back now , ’ she announced , and they set off down the grassy path in the scented April darkness , back to The Gantry . |
| 2 | Jack agreed and they set off down the track side , treading carefully in case they tripped over signal wire . |
| 3 | Jack chucked her her helmet , stowed the emergency gear and fired up his bike , and in seconds she was clinging on behind him as the sirens wailed and they took off through the car park as if the hounds of hell were after them . |
| 4 | And they come back into the University two days a week . |
| 5 | because they just go in in the day and they come out on the |
| 6 | and they come out with the gun . |
| 7 | Small blades of grass fall from her legs as the skin dries and they come out into the sunlight . |
| 8 | I think just the fact that my wife knew what was going on , and knew the problems exactly you know , they had their own meetings and the food parcels that they could organize , you know I would n't have a clue how to go about it , the fact that various shops refused to have collection points inside , and they wrote off to the management of these shops and got that changed . |
| 9 | Above the uproar , Gerrard signaled furiously at the men with the microphones , and they fell back to the sides of the studio , pulling the microphones away from eagerly reaching hands , and Gerrard began to walk backward toward the dais , looking from side to side as he went . |
| 10 | Obediently , resignedly , he swings the car round in a dangerous U-turn at the next intersection and they flash back towards the airport , the jewel factories and towerblocks of the Bangkok suburbs thinning out again to the dim outlines of swampy fields pierced by palmtree plantations . |
| 11 | But no , Bill then gave them another chance and another meeting , this time 120 skaters went along , and they came up with the following ramps : 20ft wide 6ft tall spine ramp , with the spine itself being 12 ft wide [ the other 8ft bit being platform ] , and another 12 ft wide mini ramp , plus street stuff like fun boxes etc . |
| 12 | and what they wanted was the easiest ones and they came up with the answer economics Gerald simply , we Ge Gerry and I put our heads together and went bib bib bib bib bib , you know as good parents do and we both presented him with a fait accompli you either take an engineering degree , we do n't care what sort or you go out to work in a bank because economics you will not get a first because you are not reader and t to get a first in economics , which is what you 'll need if you 're gon na make any money out of it |
| 13 | He met Pilger in the foyer and they went up to the room . |
| 14 | The tide was ebbing , and they went down on the steeply shelving bed of the Conway . |
| 15 | Wexford laughed and they went down in the lift together . |
| 16 | Then he crossed the room to collar a departing guest for some last words and they went out of the front door together . |
| 17 | She waited in the hall while he fetched her wrap and they went out into the night . |
| 18 | And they went out into the country to these evacuated people and they , they thought they were in absolute |
| 19 | In the little hall , Francis put on a waterproof coat and cap and they went out by the back door . |
| 20 | She was most solicitous ( scheming bitch ! ) so he told her that his wife was cured and they went back to the same old routine . |
| 21 | The water lapped about their feet , and they went back to the posts . |
| 22 | Strolling , they pondered public education versus private schooling ; Johnson wondered why boys from England had been sent as far as Aberdeen to be educated , with ‘ so many good schools in England ’ , and they went back to the New Inn , to be joined there by Sir Alexander Gordon , an old friend of Johnson 's , who had sent a card in advance , and through Boswell we join their conversation as it drifts back to the stocking-making . |
| 23 | ‘ Still — ’ murmured Juliet , and they went along to the haematology department . |
| 24 | He arranged an abortion which went wrong and they went off to the South of France to recuperate . |
| 25 | Now , they dragged one of the local lochs and they poked about in the river but they found nothing . |
| 26 | The engine barked , a harsh hacking sound , and they rolled out into the sunshine . |
| 27 | For a while the man stood muttering and cursing as he clanked his heavy ring of keys , but at last he found the right one and they stepped on to the moonlit track which ran down like a strip of silver through the overhanging trees . |
| 28 | The final goodbyes were said and they stepped out from the smell of wood smoke , food and wine from a room which Dalgliesh was beginning to find uncomfortably warm into the fresh , sea-scented air . |
| 29 | It rained all day and they played out in the mud and the parents were n't very pleased with me . |
| 30 | Alresford lifted the siege when Clarke kicked a penalty from fully 40 metres , and they followed up with the decisive try . |