Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb past] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Betty Hawkes took her to the local hop that evening , where they danced to the strict tempo of Victor Sylvester records : a very different world to the music of Miller and Goodman and Basie that she 'd jived to in the States . |
| 2 | The music was extremely good to dance to and the skins were excellent dancers , although they turned to the slow , deep soul music for close dancing . |
| 3 | I thank those who took part in it , and I echo the gratitude that they expressed to the interim advisory committee as the end of its days draws nigh . |
| 4 | On March 7 , 1990 , Cetin Emec , a leading journalist on the daily Hürriyet was killed in his car in Istanbul by gunmen who claimed that they belonged to the Turkish Islamic Commandos . |
| 5 | As neighbours of the enormously powerful and expansionist United States , the Canadians had a direct and abiding interest in maintaining for their part the fiction that they belonged to the same political entity of the rich and powerful United Kingdom . |
| 6 | American diplomats were so appalled by Mr Zappala 's nomination that they leaked to the Spanish press a copy of the misnamed competence certificate , which is sent to the Senate , which has the final say on ambassadorial posts . |
| 7 | And these were n't any old typefaces , they were Linotype 's which meant that they conformed to the highest typographic standards the industry was likely to require . |
| 8 | So she could n't go out to work cos she 'd got young girls to bring up so they went to the social and the social turned round and said to them before we give you any money you 've got ta spend all this bloody redundancy you 've got ta have used all your savings , including the kids savings , and you 've got ta have nothing ! |
| 9 | Their search was fruitless so they moved to the other bed post . |
| 10 | Mr Koc contacted a lawyer in Istanbul and they wrote to the Public Prosecutor 's office . |
| 11 | Mr Koc contacted a lawyer in Istanbul and they wrote to the Public Prosecutor 's office . |
| 12 | The Americans decided that an armed resistance was necessary and they went to the United Nations , shades of Bosnia here , they went to the United Nations to get support and , as luck would have it , the Soviets were sulking , this was quite common in the nineteen forties and fifties , and the a the Soviet ambassador to the U N was having a sulk and was refusing to attend the Security Council and he therefore persuaded the Security Council to pass a resolution er producing a United Nations force to aid plucky little South Korea against its vicious oppressive northern neighbours and so the Korean war started and the United Nations ' forces were commanded by one General Douglas MacArthur , General Douglas MacArthur , in case you do n't know , won the second world war single handedly |
| 13 | He 'd met Sean Penn maybe 20 times , and they went to the same clubs on Melrose and Sunset , even if not at the same time or on the same night . |
| 14 | and they went to the wrong door and said is this car anything |
| 15 | If they went to the common law courts , they would be told that the legal estate in the land was vested in the grantee , and that he was entitled to the benefit himself . |
| 16 | Improving life expectancy gave them every hope of doing so , especially if they belonged to the rising middle-class . |
| 17 | They felt entitled to , and duly received , the customary genuflections that were accorded to their rank , but they belonged to the local ‘ house ’ rather than to the village . |
| 18 | Given the fact that less than 30 per cent of charges brought resulted in successful conviction ( when the rate for most other crimes was about 50 per cent ) , we may wonder how much substance there was in many of the accusations , or whether at times of political anxiety certain types of people were likely to be vulnerable to false accusations because they conformed to the popular stereotype of who a Jacobite was . |
| 19 | Lead on said her father , and he lead the way till they came to the flowing river . |
| 20 | Steve Coppell , the Palace manager , pointed out that Arsenal remain the only team they have not beaten since they returned to the First Division . |
| 21 | At the end of the long road Reynolds ' was the first house they had to pass and they started to cringe into themselves behind Moran even before they got to the little hedge of privet above the whitewashed stones . |
| 22 | For these the primary schools provided a gentle haven before they transferred to the local secondary modern school . |
| 23 | Malik , a Cambridge Blue , owns the Reflex health club , which used to be Rugby 's clubhouse before they moved to the new one next door this season built at a cost of £438,000 . |
| 24 | There was no mention in the treaty , however , either of the estates in Scotland granted to English lords by Edward I and lost as Bruce gained control of the country , or of the Scottish lands held by Anglo-Scottish lords such as the Earl of Angus and forfeited when they adhered to the English cause . |
| 25 | If American think-tankers would find Germany odd , they would be floored by Japan — but would cock an interested eyebrow when they went to the Soviet Union . |
| 26 | They set to work cutting down trees and brushwood , far and near , to drag up to the terrace , to fill in the ditches — or at least , the two outer ones , for when they came to the inner ones it was promptly demonstrated that they were within range of the defending cannon . |
| 27 | Dozens of times they 'd gone in single file when they came to the narrow place , made narrow by a growth of gorse . |
| 28 | When they came to the two roads , they stopped . |
| 29 | He 'd thought he 'd die himself , he said when they came to the white iron gate , he 'd thought he 'd die when he 'd heard the woman 's scream , sharp as a blade above the whine of the wind and the rain . |
| 30 | And when they returned to the main column they told how this one had fought like three men against ten times as many of the barbarians . |