Example sentences of "they [prep] [noun sg] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fundamentally , it is a social rather than a psychological variable , its main purpose being to enable the researcher to compare individuals in such a way as to focus on differences between them with respect to degree of integration into a set of relationships which constitute a group capable of exerting normative pressure . |
| 2 | They came with a good suit on and they would go to work with a suit double breasted and then and they would work there and make a lot of money and when the next thing they would do they would hit into town and get all rigged out and then that was them from top to bottom from their hat right to their feet and then they were hitting the road then . |
| 3 | It took them from breakfast to dinnertime to teatime to get everybody . |
| 4 | Commentators considered that the delay was designed to give the LTTE time to negotiate with the Moslem and Sinhalese communities in the Eastern Province in order to prevent them from joining to vote for the reinstatement of a separate Eastern Provincial Council . |
| 5 | But those who participate have to sign a non-competition deal preventing them from leaving to work with a rival consortium . |
| 6 | Preference rules may be broken ; in fact it would be very difficult not to break them from time to time as some of them conflict . |
| 7 | He began to note down suitable thoughts and epigrams on pieces of office copy-paper , not really with the intention of learning them off by heart , but with the idea that he might put them in his jacket pocket and touch them from time to time during the programme to give himself reassurance , knowing that if the worst really came to the worst he could take them out and refresh his memory . |
| 8 | She lived with the child and her father stayed with them from time to time in the flat on the north side of Glasgow . |