Example sentences of "they [verb] [to-vb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They want to go up to the aviary but I I ca n't get I ca n't get this buggy up there up that hill . |
| 2 | They are saying they want to get back to the point where their hard work brought frequent , real , deep satisfaction . |
| 3 | They were surprised to see leather helmets and the glitter of ranked steel among the rock-throwing denizens of the north bank and to receive several arrows , harmless in the teeth of the wind , as they began to swing round to the south shore to accomplish their landing . |
| 4 | How could she have been so blind ? she thought privately , as they began to head out to the lagoon . |
| 5 | They started to walk back to the Mercedes . |
| 6 | When the answer was a resounding ‘ Non ’ they decided to go back to the classroom . |
| 7 | The nearest she would get was that she wanted time , time to herself to think , to read , to find out how other people lived ; how they managed to live , how they managed to face up to the tragedies ; their scraping for a living ; and how they managed to cope with love . |
| 8 | It was what actors call a total ‘ corpse ’ , and , although they managed to get through to the end of the play , any tension they might have built up was dissipated . |
| 9 | Once , landing from the submarine HMS Tigris , his fellow canoeist — a Free French soldier — lost his boat in rough water , but they managed to get back to the submarine . |
| 10 | After several years , when they have grown to full size , they start to swim back to the rivers in order to spawn . |
| 11 | Just as the marine terrace represents the abandoned sea floor , so do river terraces represent valley floors abandoned by the rivers as they start to cut down to the new and lower base level . |
| 12 | They aimed to pass over to the other side of the stockade through the gap between one section and the other , where the bridge spanned the stream . |
| 13 | Galerie de la Scala fared so well with a mixture of French , North European and Italian drawings , priced at FFr 20,000–350,000 , not always by famous names but always in exquisite taste , that they had to go back to the gallery for more . |
| 14 | ‘ The Welsh name for the bridge over there , ’ said Beuno , gesturing , ‘ means ‘ the place where the milk was spilt ’ because one year the nuns ' cow went dry and they had to go down to the village to beg for some , and they got this far and then one of them dropped it . ’ |
| 15 | When they reach an obstacle , such as the sharks , they have to go back to the previous question . |