Example sentences of "[conj] they [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Course we was feverishly trying to chip the bricks and things off the horse then how , what had happened because we 'd got two stalls for them , and there was pigs in the one side and the horse in the other one , but of course when we eventually came to it , or they eventually came to the horse , he was dead , been killed standing up there like , you know and er , poor old pigs was all dead as well and as I said , about a hundred fell and two or three would been blown sky high . |
| 2 | This is not to suggest that there were trackways everywhere ( although they probably remain to be found elsewhere in Somerset , and records exist of others from the bogs of Lancashire ) , but that the exploitation of the landscape implied by them existed very widely . |
| 3 | Most older people do not need what is interestingly referred to as ‘ warden-controlled accommodation ’ , although they seldom object to this extra facility . |
| 4 | Although they usually listen to what headhunters have to sell , many candidates were irritated by the questions they were asked . |
| 5 | By keeping it more or less behind them and to their left they could be sure of travelling north-west which was the direction they believed right but the inequalities of the ground often forced them out of their way and although they always returned to their line they had to guess what corrections to make to allow for obstacles . |
| 6 | He claimed that they soon adapted to life in captivity and became useful pest-controllers . |
| 7 | editor of the Eatanswill Independent , a fire-eater and a Buff ( Whig ) , whose opinions so inflame his rival Pott , editor of the Blue ( Tory ) Eatanswill Gazette , that they eventually come to blows . |
| 8 | That many of his clients saw him in the former category is suggested by the fact that they frequently passed to him details of their restless and unsuitable executives in the hope that he would redeploy them . |
| 9 | Although Montag himself is not involved in the television very much , Mildred is an avid viewer and this affects their relationship as husband and wife to the extent that they rarely talk to each other . |
| 10 | Often they were detailed and informative ; and many were published under pressure from the House of Commons rather than by the free decision of the government , though the fact that they normally related to negotiations which had been concluded rather than to any still in progress inevitably limited their usefulness as a weapon of parliamentary control . |
| 11 | He would not accept their continual bleatings that they just wanted to ‘ be in a band and make great records . ’ |
| 12 | One of the most important things about constructive arguments is that they almost have to be step by step . |
| 13 | But if fish respond to these common herbs , what other plants are to be found in their environment that they usually respond to ? |
| 14 | They were monotonous in the sense that they usually related to allegations that there was some special relationship between the Prime Minister and Marcia Williams , and indeed I advised Mrs Williams in connection with insulting letters that she received . |
| 15 | Women are making such progress in the world of French crime that they sometimes seem to be monopolising the police report headlines . |
| 16 | The parent may either emulate this approach or completely refute it and feel that they never want to be like their parents . |
| 17 | so that they really had to be brought out . |
| 18 | And this is , it is true for some p , it 's true for a lot of people , that they really want to be challenged . |
| 19 | used to say , that cases used to come before her court in in Rochdale , and it was an absolute disgrace that they ever came to court . |
| 20 | Many subtleties of meaning are carried by words in this category , and these meanings have to become attached to the written forms so that they readily convey to the reader what kind of thinking is taking place . |
| 21 | Why ca n't they dip into modules because once they 've learned that they then come to us and we say right you 're at the stage where you can do the certificate in Industrial Editing sit our exam |
| 22 | Most power converters are required to provide transformer isolation between input and output , and the isolated version of the Cuk converter has to have energy coupling capacitors on all its windings , so that they then have to be provided as energy coupling devices plus the transformer . |
| 23 | In 1986 , a new Explanatory Foreword to SSAPs was issued which points out that they only apply to nationalized industries because the Government requires them to . |
| 24 | Some people believe that they only need to be turned once more , while others say that they need scrapping . |
| 25 | American poets can be so thunderstruck by the sheer oddity of being a poet in America at all that they often deny to the poet , in advance , any claim to represent a people or even a social class ; and classic New York drama in this century , as in the plays of Eugene O'Neill and Arthur Miller , has concentrated painfully and insistently on the pre-eminence of family ties and the ineluctable need of everyone in that world to be loved , as they continuously imply , by their closest relatives . |
| 26 | What people sometimes fail to realise is that standard provisions are fine as a general guide but that they often have to be amended ( or even dropped altogether ) to allow the transaction to make ‘ commercial sense ’ on both sides . |
| 27 | This is not to say that they convey the same sense , nor that they necessarily refer to the same event ; but given what we know , both about the real world and the fictional world , it is reasonable to infer from each the same event . |
| 28 | At least the British players demonstrated that they fully deserved to be on the same court — much against many people 's expectations . |
| 29 | But the officers had been given no orders to occupy these positions , so they simply returned to their lines to await instructions . |
| 30 | Once they both switched to speaking in French , the problems were solved ! |