Example sentences of "they [vb base] [adv prt] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She nodded , and they set off again to find a Venice few tourists saw . |
| 2 | They set off early to beat the traffic , and instead of blossom there were dead leaves on the pavement and a thin white mould of frost . |
| 3 | Well erm you know we 've had a lot of people come to us and say we 've qualified sales by telephone , I do n't present that a problem with that , but we have discovered people have not listened to what we 've been saying , even on the training course , when they go out there to sell the space they keep making appointments to go and see people to talk about advertising . |
| 4 | they sweep up tidily to pass the time |
| 5 | Had they come out here to talk about the murders ? |
| 6 | It is one of the many ironies in our provision for old people that we offer the fit elderly cheap transport ( which they take up enthusiastically to visit their relatives ) but make no provision to enable the relatives of the frail housebound to visit them . |
| 7 | About half of them loosen up enough to allow the foreskin to be gently pulled back by the time the boy is a year old . |