Example sentences of "they [verb] to [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They , they left here erm about half past eight , twenty to nine and they got to about half way they had n't been gone twenty minutes and I thought , oh she 's left her photographs , she had to get four passport photographs and she 'd left them here and I thought we 'd send them , send them to her and she did n't like them you see , but she 'd have them . |
| 2 | so a child could work for an and do any work they want to in that hour so we 're doing a dual role , we 're holding a detention there |
| 3 | Their goals switched the spotlight back on the Ipswich title challenge as they moved to within seven points of their rivals and had their odds halved from 50-1 to 25-1 . |
| 4 | Since statistics rarely mean what they appear to at first glance , we should , however , look at these figures with caution . |
| 5 | Monaghan , a prospect they returned to in 1983 . |
| 6 | Having said all they needed to on this subject , they left it , and Alice said after a pause , " I went round this afternoon . |
| 7 | Excess supply of labour means that households are rationed in the labour market : they can not sell the quantity of labour services they wish to at current wages and prices . |
| 8 | They have to for some journeys yes , but there are a lot of alternatives and I think if the councillors were actually to rely more on public transport they maybe would feel more comfortable about putting subsidies into buses instead of subsidies into car parks . |