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 .
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