Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He wondered whether to tell the four of them seated there about the death of Dr Kemp , for they 'd have to know very soon anyway . |
| 2 | After that everything between them became easy for the time being . |
| 3 | Sometimes the clerics among them met separately from the laymen . |
| 4 | ‘ Four of them got together over a couple of decanters of port and I listened to what I could . |
| 5 | The destruction of the temples and the towns round them led directly to a rebuilding programme . |
| 6 | Then the three of them swam away into the deeper water under the headland . |
| 7 | The women lived with it — some of them came here for a week and then went back to it . |
| 8 | Yes and and then when the lifeboat came , the Eday and and Sanday and them a lot of them came across for the dances , the lifeboat dances , it was really I would say the best time |
| 9 | The fact that so many of them played together for the Lions will be an important help . ’ |
| 10 | The town itself is in most respects unremarkable by comparison with its Devon neighbours , and like many of them flourished especially in the seventeenth century , heyday of the West Country cloth trade : when Celia Fiennes passed close by in 1698 , she found all Exeter and the country around making ‘ an incredible quantity of serges ’ which were sent from the port of Topsham to be sold in Europe . |
| 11 | ( In some of the harsh villages of the hinterland , the sheets of the bridal night were still unfurled on the morning after ; the spots on them displayed heraldically from the balcony of the house . ) |
| 12 | Her voice , which had been raised , as his had been , so as to be heard while one of them walked ahead of the other , died away as they passed down the corridor , presumably en route to bed . |
| 13 | His white-gloved hands played possum on the desk-top until one of them walked across to the baton , picked it up and hit the desk-top a sharp blow . |
| 14 | They were flying the Liberators in for the big daylight raids on the Ruhr and one of them flew straight into the field where Grandad was working , planting carrots for the war effort . |
| 15 | Many of them worked late into the night with their files and their problems of decisions , or if they were in the Judicature , their judgements . |
| 16 | Most of them looked forward to an administrative career in the service of a lord , whether pope , king , bishop or earl . |
| 17 | All three of them stared silently at the walls . |
| 18 | The two of them stared aimlessly into the distance . |
| 19 | We may know these things on an intellectual level , but there 's nothing like having the emotional truth of them brought home on a gut level-none of us are free from some degree of the self-blame that makes so many women feel responsible for their own rape . |
| 20 | sadly , most of them fell well below the acceptable level of quality . |
| 21 | And the three of them went deeper into the darkness of the tunnel . |
| 22 | selection of them went all over the world collecting trees . |
| 23 | His kiss was whole and complete and her world was whole and complete as their passion erupted and they clung together as the liquid fire inside them flowed furiously in its blazing release . |
| 24 | They clung together in the waiting room outside Sarah 's office and Maureen told her what Tony had said . |
| 25 | In September , when Edward had any spare time and Helen was free from work , they met frequently at the National Gallery , where they examined minutely Greek male and female statues , or at Janet 's lodgings . |
| 26 | At the same time the woman moved , incredibly quickly — ; she seemed to glide quite upright , and they met just beyond the platform roof in the sunlight . |
| 27 | They met separately from the authority and shared a common ‘ soft Left ’ platform of views on the future of the NHS . |
| 28 | ‘ They met again over the years , too . |
| 29 | When the counsellors were ready , they met again with the king and agreed their proposals . |
| 30 | In the meantime , Sinatra 's relationship with Peter Lawford had been repaired when they met again at a dinner party given by Gary Cooper , and they behaved as though there had never been an argument . |