Example sentences of "[conj] they [adv] [vb past] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He claimed that they soon adapted to life in captivity and became useful pest-controllers . |
| 2 | used to say , that cases used to come before her court in in Rochdale , and it was an absolute disgrace that they ever came to court . |
| 3 | As for some of these Territorial officers — temporary officers , he labelled them … about as likely to amount to anything if they ever went to war as a commercial traveller or a third rate comedian in a music hall . |
| 4 | Women , erm from men 's departments , cos they just , like she said they , I do n't know why , but they just seemed to sort of |
| 5 | But they never went to church , as far as she knew . |
| 6 | Oxford 's Elizabethan and Stuart fishermen were not poor but they never rose to prominence in the city , despite being well-connected on occasion . |
| 7 | Erm it may have been deliberate in that how the Par Party could n't be seen as too radical in order to maintain er as broad a support as possible and allow the peasants to erm give them leeway to do what they wanted to do , but erm it 's quite interesting though that whatever the Communist Party did , people were going to respond in which ever way they wanted to whether or not there was a law there , but they still had to sort of erm establish their legitimacy . |
| 8 | A handiwork lesson where children were mechanically engaged in a task ( making brooms ) which all had already mastered before they ever came to school . |