Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was late by the time we had finished chatting and they cycled off to find somewhere to pitch their tent . |
| 2 | They did not appear even to breathe . |
| 3 | The extra pairs had been there all the time ; they had simply found nowhere to nest before . |
| 4 | By Saturday they had both recovered sufficiently to fall in with the rest of the company for pay parade , waiting in a long queue to collect five shillings each from the paymaster . |
| 5 | They had all taken enough to kill , that was sure . |