Example sentences of "[subord] 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 | And so they wrote to Queen Elizabeth . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ Come and see my presents ! ’ she said , so they went to Rebecca 's bedroom . |
| 9 | The hazard of this diet was that patients had to have an alternative source of energy so they turned to fat . |
| 10 | It would have taken an army to shift the travellers once they got to Castlemorton . |
| 11 | ‘ Away with the atheists ’ , he cries out , not as if the words applied to Christians but as if they applied to pagans . |
| 12 | I would go back to my attic and not be too hard on my characters if they came to pieces on their knees . |
| 13 | Our reforms have cut away the barriers that meant many breadwinners lost money if they went to work . |
| 14 | No it used to be just the sacks stop the dust and go down the back and I 've known the time what er , when they needed a regular gang of dockers , if they went to work on er , on er Monday morning with a dirty head bag on made of calico , they 'd have to buy the beer cos they had , if they ai n't got a clean head bag on or a cl clean skullcap , there used to be a little old calico skullcap they used to put on just to keep the dust out the hair and all like that . |
| 15 | I do not know if they talked or if they went to bed together on that first night . |
| 16 | Someone who had worked closely with Ian Paisley in the 1950s claimed that he had once joked that the only way they would get anywhere would be if they went to gaol for the Protestant cause . |
| 17 | Management offered to pay the workers for the lost days if they returned to work by Wednesday morning , but at a mass meeting on Tuesday 10 June workers voted 48 to 10 against resuming work and rejecting settlement proposals worked out between management and the union until they had seen a report from the Department of Labour Factory Inspectorate . |
| 18 | May I draw to my hon. Friend 's attention a report in the Sunday Express pointing out that paramilitaries convicted of bombing and murder are sheltering in the Republic are drawing more than £2 million per week in dole money and social security , paid for by the British taxpayer , while many would face reconviction if they returned to Ulster ? |
| 19 | It seems that Manners was anxious to press ahead with building as quickly as possible in an attempt to pre-empt the Opposition from changing the scheme if they returned to power . |
| 20 | Yes , I just wondered if they could n't sort of do a , a deal , you know to get them by air , the only thing about it is if they got to sort of |
| 21 | They say if they stuck to Government guidelines , it would mean teaching cuts , library closures and redundancies . |
| 22 | You got a very good committee , dedicated committee erm who , you see the young trainees were sent to the technical colleges and you see , erm some of them did go on if they graduated to Stanford Hall , but I mean those that went to technical college , we used to have to get the committee to sit in at the examinations . |
| 23 | And erm Joseph and Mary they went to Egypt or somewhere , yeah Egypt , and when they went erm and I think the angels called them to go cos they came to Egypt as well and then they went to . |
| 24 | But , er , so hopefully Michelle will get this next Tracey 's position , and obviously sort of in in the meantime and providing her position comes up they are bringing in a Telesales County Secretary , which was n't gon na come in for about a year cos they wanted to sort of like , trial it , but now they 've decided if that 's what they want the position to do erm it 'll probably happen in the next two months and they said for me to go for it from our division , so I said right , okay . |
| 25 | At the beginning , Aung San sprang a surprise : they wanted the British to sign , while they waited until they returned to Burma to signify their agreement . |
| 26 | And the abbots used to come up and then they would stay and have their meal in Kilray down at what they called the aiden or the tavern , and then they would walk over the hill of Kilray right up until they came to Dalvaine . |
| 27 | The two girls ran on until they came to Vasilissa 's home . |
| 28 | Until they came to Overclyst , Susan and Breeze had never experienced the endless joy of watching the seasons come and go . |
| 29 | That came through their being cooped up at Jerusalem in the persecution which followed on the death of Stephen : as a result of the ordinary followers of Jesus being scattered by that persecution , they were able to preach the good news along the Phoenician seaboard until they came to Antioch , later to become the home of the Gentile mission . |
| 30 | There was not a word said of business until they came to table in Isambard 's great hall , where the envoy found himself in the place of honour at his host 's right hand . |