Example sentences of "they [vb past] [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once they decided to work to a particular time-scale , they carried on regardless , ’ says Crisp . |
| 2 | The government also failed to take up the recommendation to ‘ ring-fence ’ community care budget allocations , except in the case of mental health services where they did agree to a specific grant which would only be spent on community care service plans developed jointly by the health and social services . |
| 3 | Following negotiations with the police most of the settlers left Silwan , abandoning all but one of the houses which they said belonged to a Jewish family evicted during riots in 1930 . |
| 4 | Originally six absconded from a local farm and successfully made it to the mill in a lorry chassis , however they had dwindled to a single cockerel . |
| 5 | But you 've got to prove that they are a suspected person — they had to belong to a particular class of person to be classed as a suspected person . |
| 6 | I was in the United States when the invasion of Iraq the invasion of Iraq into Iran , and I saw the whole situation with the aid of erm the United States mass media , so actually erm I had different ideas about erm what is the outcome and what is the results of the erm invasion was , and I took erm throughout the conflict I took an opposing view , because I always viewed the Iraquis as being aggressor and they inflicted damaged to a neighbouring country and erm they had erm no whatsoever rights to do anything like that and we see it again when erm they invaded Kuwait , they have no right at all erm they it is just the policy of the governing body of the Iraqui regime . |
| 7 | Powell and Pressburger could n't find the stories that expressed what they wanted to say to a contemporary audience , Reed suffered a loss of nerve after making two exceptional films with Graham Greene ( Fallen Idol and The Third Man ) . |