Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Not I went to bed last night at twelve o'clock John and Ryan was in bed about twelve I think , the two of them just fell straight to sleep . |
| 2 | Some of them even made enough to run hot rod cars . |
| 3 | They just did enough to win 6–4 at lowly Ash ‘ B ’ , with George Startup , Simon Peters and Jackie Rice all getting two , but losing to Peter Palmer . |
| 4 | They desperately need somewhere to hide , and pursue Laverne with a gut craving . |
| 5 | Bob Martin , from the Darlington Milk Buyers , said customers had been very generous and they still had more to collect . |
| 6 | The Bushmen have been pushed back from much richer regions into the most inhospitable areas of Africa by other more technologically advanced peoples with whose enmity they still have continually to reckon . |
| 7 | The excavators at Silchester and Caerwent had found great quantities , but regarded it as merely so commonplace and ordinary , that they hardly bothered even to mention it , thus ignoring the important principle laid down earlier by the great Pitt-Rivers , who attempted to record everything he found ‘ however small and however common … common things are of more importance than particular things , because they are more prevalent ’ ( 1898 , 27 ) . |
| 8 | They also worked hard to channel shopfloor activity through new plant-level union structures . |
| 9 | They now need only to beat Finland on 15 November to be sure of their place in Italy . |
| 10 | They 've set up camp , saying the impounded vehicles were their homes and they now have nowhere to live . |
| 11 | Most people find the environment of the laboratory unusual , and on their first night they typically take longer to get to sleep than is usual . |
| 12 | The churches and the Assessorato alla Cultura ( cultural affairs department ) last collaborated in 1988 , at the time of the Veronese and Palma Giovane exhibitions when they then worked together to produce two small but well-researched publications on works by the two painters housed in the various churches , with suggested itineraries for visits . |
| 13 | And often it 's not that they never had anywhere to live , it 's just that they could n't cope with the responsibilities and the isolation of living on their own . |
| 14 | But they too managed only to confuse him . |
| 15 | Thousands of foreigners from all parts of the world were so concerned about events in Spain that they actually went there to fight in the war , many of them never to return . |