Example sentences of "they [be] [verb] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once a company is appointed , make sure that they are kept up to date and are encouraged to remain alert to your requirements . |
| 2 | Only the twins are able to convince the terrorist stone to renounce his plan , yet once the crisis has been averted they are sent off to school in Germany . |
| 3 | When they are 15 or 16 they are sent off to work as building labourers , clothing makers or worse . |
| 4 | It tells us that the soldiers are thinking back to before the war , to the sun as if it were something in the distant past which they took for granted but has now become their last hope and so they are turning back to nature to put right a problem they caused . |
| 5 | They 're farmed out to East Peckham or Chertsey for five years . ’ |
| 6 | I think it spoils it for children it makes them it seems too long for them they 're looking forward to Christmas . |
| 7 | Saturday they 're coming round to dinner . |
| 8 | Like you know , at the end of they 're coming in to landing and they 're wheel 's do n't come down or something ? |
| 9 | I know they 're going on to security entrance is n't it , where the er they 're going to have their own key or own method of getting in on an intercom . |
| 10 | Chemicals that in the Common Market are not allowed to travel by road , they 're forced on to rail . |
| 11 | Now a compression is , pressure on the brain , caused by fracture , bleed or blood clot now if a person has been suffering from concussion and it 's gone unnoticed , that bleed could be just carrying on and on and on and it could take up to four to five days before the compression shows itself so perhaps a week later they 're sitting down to breakfast saying ooh my head hurts , now the poor wife or husband , or whoever it is does n't know about that knock on the head that they had previously , unless somebody 's told them about it mm , so your casualty now is going to have this headache and a beauty , they 're going to be confused their levels of consciousness it will deteriorate face is very hot , dry flushed the pupils will become unequal and because of the pressure breathing becomes noisy if you feel the pulse , it 's going to be slow and strong and you will get paralysis on the opposite side to the compression , what are , what are the signs and symptoms of ? |
| 12 | When Arafat satisfied himself of the identity of the three Palestinians responsible , they were sent down to Tyre ‘ in disgrace ’ . |
| 13 | The southern colonies did not contribute much to the war in America and though they were called on to help , there was no co-ordinated organization for strategy . |
| 14 | After the strike , however , they were called on to return to their ‘ service role ’ for the miners , and they faced difficulties sustaining both their solidarity and their ability to build on their new-found strength ( see also Waddington et al. , 1990 ) . |
| 15 | Her husband had just finished the day 's work at his butcher 's shop and they were settling down to supper . |
| 16 | Formerly plentiful on antarctic fringe and peripheral southern islands , they were hunted almost to extinction by commercial sealers during the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries . |
| 17 | She looked after some children in their last year before they were packed off to boarding school . |
| 18 | But they were diverted instead to refugee camps in Hungary , where there were no children . |
| 19 | On these journeys , however , he had n't been fortunate , as some of the fellows in the camp had been , in finding a cottage or a house where they were invited in to tea , which often meant , so he understood , eggs and chips or even bacon , particularly if it was a farmhouse . |
| 20 | They were driven away to death row in Pretoria 's central prison . |
| 21 | In those days all aircrew had to take a six monthly Basic Efficiency Examination to ensure they were keeping up to date with equipment and training procedures . |
| 22 | ENGLAND men failed to turn their silver into gold in the European Championships in Stuttgart last night as they were brought down to earth 4–1 by Sweden in the final of the men 's team event . |
| 23 | Ken went to the man 's flat before they were going out to dinner . |
| 24 | The imagination of danger keeps us immersed in a story ; the adventurous court it in actual life ; the unadventurous relate with gusto how they were carried off to hospital with an undiagnosed and probably fatal illness , as a vivid patch in an otherwise uneventful life . |