Example sentences of "they [vb past] to the [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mounted on dragons , the two of them flew to the Fortress-Shrine of Vaul 's Anvil . |
| 2 | 65 came from 68 balls , with 53 of them debited to the Warwickshire man . |
| 3 | Vicissitudes notwithstanding , six members from the North East made sure they got to the Albert Hall in April to applaud the fine performances by the Medau teams . |
| 4 | They got to the Florida place and they 're alive . ’ |
| 5 | Benny and Eve were in the window of Healy 's Hotel practising having cups of coffee so that they would look well accustomed to it when they got to the Dublin coffee houses . |
| 6 | After she completed her degree course , they moved to the United States , where she took up an appointment as an instructor in English at Smith College . |
| 7 | They invited to the Hong Kong Sevens to play in the fifteen-man exhibition game beforehand . |
| 8 | There they transferred to the Métro , taking the rubber-wheeled underground train on the Neuilly line to the west of the city . |
| 9 | In 1914 an offer from Australia took Lewis and his trainer , Alec ‘ Zalig ’ Goodman , to Sydney and five matches in three months , from where they sailed to the USA on business which lasted five years . |
| 10 | Later , Schellenberg called for his Mercedes and they drove to the Tiergarten and walked around the lake , feet crunching in the light powdering of snow . |
| 11 | When they came to the Maastricht Treaty on European Union , British negotiators , at least , convinced themselves that they were operating in reasonably acceptable territory . |
| 12 | But the biggest challenges to Maastricht will come , as they came to the Werner plan , in developments outside the European Community . |
| 13 | They chatted on until they came to the Bramley Arms . |
| 14 | On the far side they came to the Sierra de Quareca , hills which , though not particularly high , did give the party — many of them clad in heavy metal cuirasses and leg-armour — some relief from the steamy , insect-ridden heat of the lowlands . |
| 15 | But his parents soon realised that Ashley would need more specialized help , so they turned to the Peto Institute in Hungary , which has pioneered the treatment of children like Ashley with what 's known as conductive education . |
| 16 | Simultaneously with the AID and AIH , the Forts were trying to adopt , but with no great success , and eventually they turned to the US , which has a more relaxed attitude to age . |
| 17 | When the local police realised Johnstone was out of control and heading for danger , they turned to the Halliday brothers for help . |
| 18 | It was still snowing lightly as they walked to the Mercedes . |
| 19 | However , one group of Americans which had few social aspirations and lacked political prejudice was that of the young architects , less critical of the man than they were impressed by the buildings and the city he had created , and they returned to the United States inspired by what they had seen . |
| 20 | They returned to the Mercedes and refuelled before joining the traffic flow . |
| 21 | From there they proceeded to the Jebel mountains and made camp in a pleasant area of trees and plentiful water . |
| 22 | From this very brief outline of the main characteristics of women 's employment in Scotland and how they related to the Edinburgh context , we can at least form some kind of picture of the 14-year-old Scottish girl 's expectations about her working career during the last half of the nineteenth century . |
| 23 | They went to the Loire , and toured the vineyards together . |
| 24 | They went to the Highlands , which was where the problems began . |
| 25 | His sister came to England in July , and they went to the Isle of Wight together for a little over three weeks . |
| 26 | They went to the Isle of Wight . |
| 27 | Mum and Dad were over here for a holiday a while ago and they went to the Cotswolds which they said were beautiful . |
| 28 | They listened to the Beatles on Miranda 's new stereo ; the magical mystery of ‘ Strawberry Fields Forever ’ reminded her of her grandmother , so lonely , isolated , and unreachable in the prison of her own head . |
| 29 | While the Americans had not entirely despaired of better relations with Nasser , they looked to the US 6th Fleet to remind possible trouble-makers of the power which the United States could immediately bring to bear against them in a crisis . |
| 30 | In honour of the 14-year-old , Langbaurgh School held a series of sponsored events and raised £400 , which they presented to the Cleveland branch of the Cystic Fibrosis Trust . |