Example sentences of "they [vb base] [adv] to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Sex Disqualification ( Removal ) Act 1919 , designed to facilitate the admission of women to the House of Commons but worded in such a way as to be apt to give them access also to the House of Lords was seized upon by Viscountess Rhondda as having this effect but the Committee of Privileges refused to endorse her claim and the House rejected it . |
| 2 | The people in wheelchairs , it 's fair enough that they ca n't get their own dinner , but they should at least go to the back of the queue like we have to , but they push straight to the front . |
| 3 | They report periodically to the centre on their total PONC and on the PONC eliminated so far this year and the cumulative total to date . |
| 4 | Hence they accede happily to the alarm about terrorist threats . |
| 5 | They walk upstairs to the coffee counter . |
| 6 | They add considerably to the tone of the tuba , however , when used on their low notes . |
| 7 | Old Hall yes , yes , yes , yeah and so I think and of course erm I have talked erm I talk in the different clubs you know , as I say , and I think erm the majority of women usually like this , they look forward to the divi to buy say a major item , you know . |
| 8 | Those of us who have had reason to spend even a short time in a hospital will appreciate how much they look forward to the day that they can return home , even though their period spent in the hospital may have been made as pleasant as possible by exemplary care . |
| 9 | and they apparently they look very to the wall . |
| 10 | And Bailey 's comments are backed up by the trainer Derek Meredith who says American jockeys are better , they ride closer to the horse they 're neater and they are stronger too . |
| 11 | The rows of holes on the punchcards do not refer to knitted rows , they refer only to the selection of needles to form the lace pattern . |
| 12 | Unlike Persian rugs , where the name of the weaving group is an indication , if not a guarantee , of a certain quality , the " Persian " names used by Indian weavers are totally useless as pointers tot he quality of an individual item ; they refer only to the design , and must never be taken as indicating that the rug also emulates the quality and structural characteristics of the original . |
| 13 | As the enemy advances the hand gunners use their ability to change ranks as they fire so that they creep closer to the enemy . |
| 14 | These can incorporate religious truth in a far more effective way because they appeal directly to the imagination of the listener who can then recreate it anew . |
| 15 | They stay close to the sea , scavenging on penguin , cormorant and seal colonies , along tide lines , and in rock pools ( Jones , 1963 ; Stonehouse , 1985 ) . |
| 16 | Then , again , and in this they point ahead to the invention of collage , the letters and numerals stress the material existence of the painting in another way : by applying to a canvas or sheet of paper letters , other pieces of paper or fragments of glass and tin — elements generally considered to be foreign to the technique of painting or drawing — the artist makes the spectator conscious of the canvas , panel or paper as a material object capable of receiving and supporting other objects . |
| 17 | Teachers provide the greatest encouragement for children to communicate in writing when they respond more to the content of what is written than to such errors , and when they share a child 's writing with other children . |
| 18 | Were these ex-patriots a part of your workforce and presumably they contribute greatly to the country . |
| 19 | However , they contribute much to the power with which the big set pieces are delivered . |
| 20 | Distant objects are small and get larger when they come closer to the camera . |
| 21 | In the evening they return again to the Zone . |
| 22 | They reach almost to the ceiling . |
| 23 | Most meteorites are believed to be fragments of collisional debris from asteroids , but there is some evidence that carbonaceous chondrites may be stony masses released from the icy nuclei of comets , which lose their frozen binding material as they orbit close to the sun . |