Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] they to [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 He made many observations of atmospheric electricity , and tried to relate them to the weather .
2 We tried to get them to the door but they kept falling about .
3 Even if resources had been plentiful , Russia lacked the roads and railways she needed to get them to the front .
4 So I would , I and a couple of the fellas went to pull them to the aeroplane graveyard .
5 With the help of the dogs , who leapt silently through the snow , George managed to usher them to a barn , where they massed on the sheltered side .
6 Men set off in a local bus commandeered to take them to the factories on the edge of the town .
7 You were n't allowed to have a hearse , you had to carry them to the church , and er er we used to b bury them by lamp light .
8 We used the police telephone boxes when we were locking somebody up and you had to handcuff them to a railing while you rang up for the van .
9 And up in the cellar , after the shooting , we had to make them to a brace like that , a cockerel and a hen .
10 ( When he finally left us for the United States , he took these gifts back from me , with the excuse that as he had bought them in Berlin he wanted to show them to the dancer .
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