Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the profits from their books they made enough finally to buy Old Vicarage Farm , with four others , as an organic co-operative , in 1987 . |
| 2 | They sold well enough to justify a second edition , completely re-set , with a few misprints corrected , with the countertenor solos removed from the alto clef to the treble in tactful acknowledgement of the amateur market , and with a title-page announcing it as a new edition . |
| 3 | There were crowds of people everywhere but , when they saw Burun 's banner , they moved politely aside to let the party pass . |
| 4 | Under de Gaulle they opted almost unanimously to do so . |
| 5 | They had little interest in the apparent winners of the elections ; and they seemed no longer to care much what would happen next . |
| 6 | They came forward again to shake hands and sympathise . |
| 7 | They arrived early enough to consume a vast spaghetti carbonara and a litre of house wine before the little Italian place became crowded . |
| 8 | By suggesting this they began quite unwittingly to undermine her confidence in the school and in herself . |
| 9 | Also too often they broke away only to lose the initiative by letting the cockney donkeys get back . |
| 10 | By some unspoken agreement they settled quietly together to watch the night fall and the heavy tide thunder in . |
| 11 | His eyes were grey-green , like Finn 's , but had warm brown flecks in them and looked straight and candid ahead , as though they saw too directly to look from side to side . |
| 12 | George got financial support from Parliament for troops to defend his Electorate and they did well enough to maintain his position , but he could not establish in office the ministers he really wanted , who would have been committed to full-scale involvement in Germany , so that he had to put up with a government which was not completely devoted to fighting on the continent of Europe . |
| 13 | Because they said they 'd always done it and they had nowhere else to put it . |
| 14 | American blacks were always assimilationists because they had nowhere else to go . |
| 15 | They had nowhere else to go because this is closed and as they 've said you ca n't pay the mortgage on a single engine two seater aeroplane and you ca n't get rid of , to sell one of those things , there business in liquidation . |
| 16 | They remained long enough to give their name to the region of Italy where they settled , and to create the marcher duchy of Friuli as a buffer zone against attacks on their kingdom by the occupiers of the Sava-Danube lowlands — the Slavs and their overlords , the Avars . |