Example sentences of "they [verb] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Native Danuese kids — if their parents wanted them to go to school at all , and they were mostly I P big shots — had to study the principles of the malai constitution , bow to the flag , learn the kitchen malay which was the official language throughout the malai islands . |
| 2 | One drawback of the Masters for married men , who want to see the last putt in , is that it requires them to creep to bed as if they were returning from a night club . |
| 3 | During the miners ' strike in 1984 , members of the South Wales area of the National Union of Mineworkers supported the strike call but , months later , a few of them returned to work under extensive protection from the police . |
| 4 | Apart from anything else it is self-defeating to nurture girl children , to teach them self-respect and self-defence , and then have to watch them go to war with men and boys whose ideas are left unchallenged . |
| 5 | Well they got to court without a solicitor cos they were n't entitled to Legal Aid , and now you see that 's another thing , they 're both out of work , they were n't entitled to any Legal Aid , so they had to go on their own to court |
| 6 | They got to bed at ten to seven , they were shattered . |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | But he said when you start paying money just into a building society and then lump sum this and lump sum that they tend to sort of then oh you know , what is actually going on here and they tend to start looking about a bit more . |
| 9 | In the Muslim world their impotence made them perfect harem guards and they rose to power as chamberlains , governors and even generals . |
| 10 | Instead they send to Shiloh for the ark . |
| 11 | Entranced , she watched herself watching them as they spiralled to earth around her . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | They put to sea in an attempt to escape the martyr 's wrath , and were shipwrecked , with 160 of their vessels sinking and another 65 being driven to distant and unknown regions , where their occupants were slaughtered . |
| 14 | These were the children some of the teachers looked down on because they came to school with unmended holes in their jumpers , or no proper shoes , only canvas sandshoes to see them through the winter . |
| 15 | There is almost a tinge of predestination in footballers ' reflections on how they came to sport in the first place . |
| 16 | And this , in turn , would seem to justify Professor Gaddis 's conclusion that the assumption was that such governments , whether in Western Europe or Japan , and whether or not they came to power by legal or illegal means , could only be regarded as instruments of the Kremlin and hence not truly independent . |
| 17 | The overstretch of the regular army did not become a major political issue during the last of years of the Conservative Government ( then under Douglas Home , who succeeded Macmillan in October 1963 ) : it was a legacy left to Labour when they came to power in October 1964 . |
| 18 | The Socialists claim proudly that it is their most left-wing manifesto since since they came to power in 1982 and hint that their liberal finance minister , Carlos Solchaga , is for the chop . |
| 19 | When they came to power in 1970 the Conservatives decided that public expenditure on local authority housing needed to be curbed . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | During their stay in Woodstock they came to tea with us in our flat in the Banbury Road . |
| 22 | Spain 's Socialists junked dogma when they came to office in 1982 . |
| 23 | They seem to date from the early sixth century , and while some are pure Greek others are almost purely oriental : a late phase of ‘ orientalising ’ . |
| 24 | They ride to war alongside their fathers , and join together with other young nobles to fight as units of pistoliers on the battlefield . |
| 25 | They clambered to respectability by continually putting their own house in order , and in a way the battle to bring in not only the middle classes but the religious , the political , and the serious-minded took far more energy and ingenuity than winning that initial mass audience . |
| 26 | The other end of the scale the erm Sun gets much of its editorial exclusives and material often running to five or six pages erm by covering the Royal Family erm in terms of language in that in the language used , the Sun erm tends to adopt a very simple writing style of one adjective erm sorry one verb and a number of adjectives with a couple of nouns , tends to be sentence went off around ten to twelve words and the design is also quite interesting because they like to sort of leave things out so you have a paragraph in normal type and then a paragraph in bold with big splodges next to it to highlight it . |
| 27 | Specialists believe that the clicking and popping sounds made by a school of females may be the best way to rescue the six sperm whales before they starve to death in the enclosed natural harbour . |
| 28 | Hesitantly , they began to trip from side to side , facing each other , he always encouraging her , like two lunatic children in a dance . |
| 29 | India could develop test-tube fusion cells , using them as a source of neutrons to make weapons grade materials , breaking out of the stranglehold that the USA has held them in since severance of nuclear ties following the Pokran nuclear test in 1974 ; they set to work at once before the US classifies it as secret and corners the world market on the essential materials . |
| 30 | And he describes the last 14 years of his life dedicated to overcoming the bitterness accumulated since the ‘ rubber barons ’ first reached the region , bringing with them thousands of labourers from Brazil 's impoverished Northeast , who they set to work as Seringueiros in lands wrested from the Indians . |