Example sentences of "they [adj] [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They all went to the local comprehensive — which I wanted to but , because I passed my 11-plus I got sent to the grammar instead . |
| 2 | If everybody knows everybody else and they all go to the same parties , then there is bound to be a certain unanimity , if not in their judgements at least in their objects of attention . |
| 3 | She , they all go to the same school . |
| 4 | Each of these forms , or intensities , can be given a separate name , but they all belong to the same basic message : ‘ Clear off , or I will attack you . ’ |
| 5 | How can we be sure that the topics were put to a number of people in the same way ; that is , were they all responding to the same stimuli ? |
| 6 | So it does n't matter which way you do it whether you get four twelfths , two sixths , or one third , they 're all the same they all comes to the same thing . |
| 7 | It 's like saying why is somebody a better pianist than his colleague , even though they both went to the same conservatory . |
| 8 | One used to be called the bottoms and one used to be called the Meadow Flats and yet they both led to the same place . |
| 9 | Although these two expressions have the same referent ( they both refer to the same celestial object , Venus ) , they differ in sense , as the evening star means " the star which appears in the evening " , and the morning star means " the star which appears in the morning " . |
| 10 | The statistics may have low confidence levels , and the assumptions for deduction may be ill founded ; but if they both lead to the same classification , then a learner can trust it . |
| 11 | ‘ They both belong to the National Front and they both were in that tarring and feathering riot down Deptford High Street . |