Example sentences of "they have [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | They 'd all gone to bed the night before when I 'd returned from a last noggin with Harry . |
2 | ‘ Had to go and leave my dandelions to look for you , now they 've all gone to sleep . ’ |
3 | They had also come to school earlier in the year for the annual assessment meeting , a statutory requirement for children who are the subject of Statements . |
4 | In fact on the day they signed the contracts with Wonderland for the King 's Hall they had just gone to No 1 in the charts with their new album . |
5 | During continuing negotiations with mediating union officials , the government threatened on Aug. 26 to dismiss strikers if they had not returned to work by 8 am on Aug. 28 . |
6 | During continuing negotiations with mediating union officials , the government threatened on Aug. 26 to dismiss strikers if they had not returned to work by 8 am on Aug. 28 . |
7 | Not in front of the children but later , when they had all gone to bed and to sleep . |
8 | The most recent sequence of excavations has established that there was limited pre-Roman occupation of the site , in the form of a round house , which may have been associated with areas of ploughed fields , found below Roman levels in Annetwell Street , even though they had apparently reverted to pasture immediately before the arrival of the Romans . |
9 | Alternatively , they might pause in order to connect the material they have just read to material they had read earlier in the text . |
10 | Fronted by art student Becky Crawford they have already managed to lineup an extensive list of dates in the region , which is the surest sign that they are pretty good . |
11 | So far they have not hardened to ice . |
12 | But the one that they have read , Cold Comfort Farm , they have probably read to destruction . |