Example sentences of "they [verb] to the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What happened to them when they got to the other end I have never dared to ask , but perhaps these few illustrations ( pages 82–83 ) will convince you that Doc Winfield actually sat in this contraption and was hooked from a completely static position by an aircraft into the air and probably ( and I never found out ) delivered to some hospital none the worse for the experiment . |
| 2 | " I saw Slater heading out the door with some rug-chested young Romeo , " Mr Hunter said as they got to the second-floor landing in the big house . |
| 3 | The farmers going to market had come down from Barking and Ringshall and those places , and on the rough owd country roads they managed ; but as soon as they got to the tarred road in Needham street they had to stop . |
| 4 | The orphans were hungry as well as tired , and the first thing they did when they got to the disused school in Malvern where they 'll be based was to tuck into a slap-up meal . |
| 5 | At the end of the long road Reynolds ' was the first house they had to pass and they started to cringe into themselves behind Moran even before they got to the little hedge of privet above the whitewashed stones . |
| 6 | They amounted to the grand sum of twelve pounds and ten shillings — a fortune ! |
| 7 | What themes emerged in public argument against the slave trade and how do they relate to the basic concern with good order and the imperative of action to achieve it ? |
| 8 | Pews were not personal possessions that could be sold or bequeathed but were part of the property of each farm , tenement or cottage , they passed to the new owner or occupier once the property was sold or transferred . |
| 9 | I made a great nuisance of myself and , in the end , they resorted to the traditional method of dealing with trouble-makers : they asked me to stand for my own ward at the next local government elections . |
| 10 | They applied to the local authority for accommodation as homeless persons , but were rejected on the ground that they had accommodation . |
| 11 | Bolinger points out furthermore that the use of the to infinitive after verbs of perception when they shift to the inferential sense fits into an overall pattern with the object + infinitive construction . |
| 12 | Their search was fruitless so they moved to the other bed post . |
| 13 | I guess that is a form of training as well , in that we are being made more aware of teaching issues and problems as they appear to the everyday teacher . |
| 14 | The advent of work with apprentices gave a new dimension to the Eastern District 's overall programme : alongside the expansion in trade union provision and the increase in branches and branch membership , they contributed to the growing self-assurance of the District by the later 1950s . |
| 15 | The only redeeming feature was that he and Shan Hackett had lunch in Monty 's personal mess and ran up a goodly drinks bill which they charged to the teetotal general . |
| 16 | There was no mention in the treaty , however , either of the estates in Scotland granted to English lords by Edward I and lost as Bruce gained control of the country , or of the Scottish lands held by Anglo-Scottish lords such as the Earl of Angus and forfeited when they adhered to the English cause . |
| 17 | Do these words refer to the actual expense incurred by the school in providing the benefit or do they refer to the hypothetical expense incurred by the school arrived at by the formula of dividing the total cost of running the school by the number of pupils attending it or to put it more shortly do they refer to the additional or the average cost of the provision of the benefit . |
| 18 | Infants can also be observed to enjoy playing with their faeces , something which adults do if they regress to the anal phase when in a confined cell , in prison or hospital . |
| 19 | The gothic spires of parliament shimmered in the autumnal sunlight as they drove to the far side of Parliament Square and turned right towards Victoria . |
| 20 | They drove to the little creek where they kept their fishing boat , and moaned extensively to other men with blue-knit jumpers and glowing pipes . |
| 21 | They spread to the Conservative Party 's own library where they were in marked contrast to the public image created by her backing of the new British Library buildings , as we shall see shortly . |
| 22 | Fellow aviculturalists ‘ do n't call them twitchers , it 's the ultimate insult , ’ said Yvonne , Harry 's daughter Robin Pickering and Peter Banks from Stanhope were called in , and after much research and consultation they came to the extraordinary conclusion that this was a Glaucous Macaw . |
| 23 | By the time they came to the sharp bend at Borlick they had caught up with the McCulloch family , old Donald limping and muttering to himself , Donald hand in hand with Jean , Mary and her friend big Mary striding on ahead , their arms pulled down by heavy baskets of pies and eggs . |
| 24 | Jim Lenehan , assistant manager at the Sheikh 's Kildangan Stud , confirmed that Royal Gait suffered a massive heart attack , and added : ‘ The sad part is that Graham said he had felt as good as ever as they came to the final flight . ’ |
| 25 | Lead on said her father , and he lead the way till they came to the flowing river . |
| 26 | Dozens of times they 'd gone in single file when they came to the narrow place , made narrow by a growth of gorse . |
| 27 | Beyond the long line of windows , past the Conservatory and the Laburnum Walk , they came to the winter-bound Pleasure Garden where yellow jasmine crawled over a tree stump , hamamelis , the wych-hazel shrub , thrust out golden hedgehog flowers along its leafless branches , and the stream coming from the kitchen garden — a winter river now — hurried into the culvert that carried it on into the baby lake in the field outside the Pleasure Garden . |
| 28 | Jitka turned and put her fingers to her lips as they came to the main bedroom and they tiptoed passed . |
| 29 | The expedition then sailed out into the Pacific until , 600 miles from the mainland , they came to the lonely archipelago of the Galapagos . |
| 30 | He 'd thought he 'd die himself , he said when they came to the white iron gate , he 'd thought he 'd die when he 'd heard the woman 's scream , sharp as a blade above the whine of the wind and the rain . |