Example sentences of "[conj] they [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After London Transport took over they were sold where they stood to Cohens for scrap on 9 May 1934 . |
| 2 | In Sweden the Social Democrats were ousted from power in 1976 after forty-five years in office by an alliance of ‘ bourgeois ’ parties , although they returned to office in 1982 . |
| 3 | The Armstrongs were a lawless lot , paying little more allegiance to Scotland than they did to England , for they straddled the borderline ; so they were not to be trusted , but Johnstone and Jardine assured the Regent that on this occasion they would not cause trouble , for although they would care nothing about Balliol one way or the other , they hated Dacre , who as English Middle March Warden had recently hanged some of their people . |
| 4 | If they make Æthelred 's activities appear considerably rosier to us than they did to contemporaries , this at least does something to explain how the king in whose name these high-sounding utterances were issued could be charged by his subjects in 1014 with hateful practices and injustice . |
| 5 | In the event the justices had not completed their task by 12 noon and it was at 12.45 p.m. that they returned to court to state their reasons . |
| 6 | All 27,000 dismissed and striking workers would be permitted to return to employment in the same job and at the same grade and wage as at the beginning of the strike , provided that they returned to work in the period from Jan. 31 to Feb. 6 . |
| 7 | The feelings of the young hon. Member for Gedling ( Mr. Mitchell ) about the way in which local government has broken up were expressed subjectively and I suspect that he will not agree with me when I say that they seemed to date from about 1979 — and we know what happened in 1979 when the hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) was first elected . |
| 8 | When facing a critical party conference in 1921 , Austen Chamberlain had urged Neville to see that suitable people were selected to represent all twelve Birmingham divisions and to pay their expenses to make sure that they got to Liverpool . |
| 9 | What circumcision was to men of faith under the old covenant , assuring them that they belonged to Yahweh , so baptism is to the Christian ; and Colossians 2:11 , 12 brings the two ordinances together round the cross of Christ which alone gives them meaning . |
| 10 | The ideas and concepts of the prison structure in Scotland — outlined in a speech at the conference by Alan Walker , the deputy chief executive of the SPS — so impressed a Latvian delegation that they wrote to Scotland 's Minister of State , Lord Fraser of Carmyllie , asking his permission for Walker to visit the country . |
| 11 | In what remained of the once-great Richardson clan , Sam was the closest that they had to brains . |
| 12 | That there was a that they were gon na be trailing behind the peasant movement and that how that they had to sort of get a hold over all the all the changes that were happening in the country . |
| 13 | ‘ The delays involved were altogether unacceptable in my view and I had no doubt that they amounted to maladministration . ’ |
| 14 | That some of the articles were ill-argued , that they lacked style , or that they attributed to schools and teachers almost every ill that mankind was heir to , went unnoticed in the popular press ( which reported , usually without reservation , the ‘ findings ’ of each Black Paper ) . |
| 15 | — The question of job swaps was not clear in Tim 's paper — for example for Area Secretaries it meant that they wanted to job swap they could do so by moving region |
| 16 | He says that they spoke to Mr Morley and he agreed to come out . |
| 17 | The Salvation Army 's solicitors , Slaughter and May , also confirmed that they spoke to Mr Hann early in January but will not comment further . |
| 18 | They were so incensed that they flew to Los Angeles officially to deny charges that ‘ they only sang about 20 per cent of the music on their 1988 album , Hanging' Tough . |
| 19 | Judge Michael Coombe said he had taken into account that they turned to crime because of the slump . |
| 20 | The man took a couple of steps back as they headed for him ; but then they stopped , as if they 'd sensed his fury and found it to be a wall that they hesitated to scale . |
| 21 | And so they wrote to Queen Elizabeth . |
| 22 | All the different schools had er cos then we had , used to compete against er all sports and we used to get an afternoon football we used to march from up to the and erm play football but we did n't go up there until at half-time at erm play-time so they went to school at two o'clock and at half past three then that 'd be our break , then we 'd go up to erm football till five o'clock . |
| 23 | Then , due to the current troubles , they were taken away from them and offered to Gateshead , who agreed to take them but then could not get television coverage , so they went to Germany . |
| 24 | ‘ Come and see my presents ! ’ she said , so they went to Rebecca 's bedroom . |
| 25 | The hazard of this diet was that patients had to have an alternative source of energy so they turned to fat . |
| 26 | It would have taken an army to shift the travellers once they got to Castlemorton . |
| 27 | Things were indeed hotting up again ; and they seemed to Owen to be hotting up chiefly on the Moslem side . |
| 28 | So angry was he with her that he flung a handful of the stars after her , and they fell to earth with such force that they formed a row of waterholes across the country . |
| 29 | And they went to France for holiday . |
| 30 | Chief Inspector of CID took charge and charged them all and then diplomacy came in and they went to court , discharged , back on the ship , and away . |