Example sentences of "they [vb past] to a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Six-year-old Michael Smith and his parents were spotted by a passing yacht as they clung to a tiny buoyancy bag in darkness . |
| 2 | These were small events but when repeated up and down the country , they amounted to a vast change in Nonconformist attitudes towards worship . |
| 3 | How kind of you , ’ said Felicity and they agreed to a tentative appointment for the following morning . |
| 4 | Things happened in this period that profoundly influenced sociological thinking in particular , and especially in so far as it related to crime and criminals ; they led to a comprehensive rejection of the most cherished principles of positivist criminology . |
| 5 | She 'd get an even bigger kick if they led to an intimate tête à tête with the Dane . |
| 6 | The statue of Moloch in Carthage had large outstretched hands for children to be placed on before they tumbled to a blazing fire below , where they would be ‘ purified ’ and blessed by that god . |
| 7 | The English embassy in France has a mansion in the Rue des Medeans , but in early spring they moved to a small castle outside Paris , the Chateau de Maubisson . |
| 8 | First , they moved to a hub-and-spoke system . |
| 9 | The external version of the theory holds that the ‘ market value ’ of top managers ( which takes account of the salary they could command if they moved to a different employer ) will increase where they are associated with a successful company and therefore that directors will do all they can to boost profitability . |
| 10 | They changed to a strategy-management mode in which each of the business heads met with the entire executive board once a year to define strategic objectives and once a year to establish a budget . |
| 11 | After council meetings they adjourned to a local pub for a refreshing drink paid for out of their own pockets . |
| 12 | They drove to a quiet beach west of High Head . |
| 13 | They came to a simple fence which was crossed by a stile , and here Alina rested for a couple of minutes before going on . |
| 14 | They sailed round the shoreline of the harbour until they came to a small bay with a large waterfall over which cascaded the purest water . |
| 15 | Presently they came to a great waterfall . |
| 16 | They had n't walked very far when they came to a tiny dirt track off the road . |
| 17 | And he went on his way with the youngest brother until they came to a long glade in the forest . |
| 18 | Soon they came to a stout fence of raw , new , wooden palisades with a door in it that said ‘ Private ’ above a grim-toothed lock . |
| 19 | They stayed in the vent , moving along it until they came to a down tunnel . |
| 20 | They came to a lurching pontoon , where she clung to him in excitement , her eyes enormous at the sight of four enormous man-sized earwigs calmly waiting for the ferryboat . |
| 21 | And so they came to a negotiated settlement by which the Soviets agreed to withdraw the missiles and the United States promised that they would not interfere with Castro again , although from that day to this they have maintained of course their economic embargo . |
| 22 | And so they came to a negotiated settlement by which the Soviets agreed to withdraw the missiles and the United States promised that they would not interfere with Castro again , although from that day to this they have maintained of course their economic embargo . |
| 23 | Mrs Edna Wall remembers Mrs Bessie Forde and Mrs Cooper as leaders marching the band of 90 or so little ones in the early 1930s to outdoor meetings in different parts of the town and always , when they came to a public house , they stopped and sang : ‘ Dare to be a Daniel — ’ with a special emphasis on the words : ‘ Keep outside the public house and bring your money home . ’ |
| 24 | They came to a wonderful peak towards the end of his life where his love of the countryside , its changing weather , lights and moods brought forth a series of remarkable , free-spirited watercolours . |
| 25 | ‘ This lift only goes to the penthouse , ’ he mocked as they came to a smooth halt . |
| 26 | Delaney realised they were lost when finally , after innumerable turnings in the maze of corridors , they came to a dead end . |
| 27 | In a series of experiments in which people were asked to describe their flats , Linde and Labov ( 1975 ) found that almost all subjects followed the order of describing the entrance , and then rooms branching off the entrance , returning to the hallway when they came to a dead end . |
| 28 | They came to a large square , dazzling white from swirling snowdrifts . |
| 29 | Eventually , they came to a large set of steel doors , watched over by a single guard . |
| 30 | He led them along corridors and walkways until they came to a double set of metal-barred gates . |