Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The house they lived in belonged to a German lady , a Miss Wacker , who had been home in her own country when war broke out and was unable to return . |
| 2 | Although many of the great scientists and philosophers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century were Christians , they became increasingly attached to the supremacy of reason . |
| 3 | They gathered themselves and began to walk , their steps light though at first a little unsure , until they became more used to the uneven pace . |
| 4 | It was good to hear voices echoing around the sometimes solemn house and the laughter of the women as they moved around attending to their chores . |
| 5 | They promised not to speak to their wives of what the fairy had said . |
| 6 | The group broke up as they wandered off to see to their spouses , children or cups of tea . |
| 7 | In March they learnt how to react to an office accident and how to prevent such accidents . |
| 8 | There were the papers produced by the political groups , but they seemed fatally restricted to the obsessions of other times , and to backbiting amongst themselves . |
| 9 | She pretended not to see David Rosen who appeared on the step as they drove off to talk to the men at the place where they gathered before work . |
| 10 | Cook 's skipped it , and the others said they 'd already talked to you . ’ |
| 11 | They 'd all gone to bed the night before when I 'd returned from a last noggin with Harry . |
| 12 | K. R. Whenever they had a raid on the Chinese gambling , they took them all in the cells and they all sent out for Chinese meals , and when they 'd all gone to the Main Bridewell in the middle of the night — ‘ 125 , scrub out ! ’ — and I had to take my tunic off and scrub out after the Chinese had been . |
| 13 | She 'd been very happy that Sunday , 13 years ago , when they 'd all gone to Adam 's for lunch . |
| 14 | I kept reminding myself of how much trouble they 'd all gone to . ’ |
| 15 | If they 'd really wanted to . |
| 16 | The group is encouraged to bring out everything , including things they 'd never admitted to themselves before , then other members provide support . |
| 17 | They 'd never amount to a fortune — not at a penny a hundred points — but at least they paid for a few packets of cigarettes . |
| 18 | They varied only according to whether the approach was from the right or left . |
| 19 | They appreciated only answers to their own questions . |
| 20 | The general public might have been disappointed but they needed only refer to a contemporary poem then available : |
| 21 | With the ex-Callie , they took longer to adapt to nationalization I think , than the rest of the railway . |
| 22 | Only a small proportion , however , ( 12 per cent ) of Oxfordshire teachers say they felt personally threatened to any great extent by the requirement to undertake their review . |
| 23 | It seems to me entirely up to him , if he so wished , and his group , if they felt there needed to be more money spent on highways structural maintenance to have moved other bids up to priority order when discussing the capital budget . |
| 24 | At least out here they had to play according to some sort of standard of fairness , even if it was a standard they could change as they went along according to how it suited them ( like doubling the bus fares just after he 'd found that job way out in Brentford ) , but in prison , even more so than in a mental hospital , there were no real limits to what they could do to him . |
| 25 | They kept on saying to him that he could do more for himself , that he was putting a lot on . |
| 26 | At first they did not speak to each other . |
| 27 | They did not travel to Tibet to seek enlightenment in high places and in an alien culture — though one at least knew the capacity of the literal pilgrimage journey to trigger an existential experience of this power , and they all believed some kind of solitude and withdrawal from the normal conditions of social life to be an enabler of such knowledge . |
| 28 | The man and woman met by arrangement at Waterloo Station , although they did not appear to . |
| 29 | They did not appear to be engaged , nor was Madeleine sporting a ring , but Harry had had no opportunity to discover if the army captain was really her fiance . |
| 30 | He was nursing in silence the options left to him , and so far they did not appear to him totally unpromising . |