Example sentences of "they [verb] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the buses came as far as Clifton Road it would be alright but any further away and people would have practically walked into town by the time they got to the nearest bus stop . ’ |
| 2 | I did hear they got to the 1/4 finals ( ie won 2 matches ) about 4 years ago , but Im sure they would have said last night if they had beaten anyone decent . |
| 3 | What happened to them when they got to the other end I have never dared to ask , but perhaps these few illustrations ( pages 82–83 ) will convince you that Doc Winfield actually sat in this contraption and was hooked from a completely static position by an aircraft into the air and probably ( and I never found out ) delivered to some hospital none the worse for the experiment . |
| 4 | " I saw Slater heading out the door with some rug-chested young Romeo , " Mr Hunter said as they got to the second-floor landing in the big house . |
| 5 | The farmers going to market had come down from Barking and Ringshall and those places , and on the rough owd country roads they managed ; but as soon as they got to the tarred road in Needham street they had to stop . |
| 6 | The orphans were hungry as well as tired , and the first thing they did when they got to the disused school in Malvern where they 'll be based was to tuck into a slap-up meal . |
| 7 | At the end of the long road Reynolds ' was the first house they had to pass and they started to cringe into themselves behind Moran even before they got to the little hedge of privet above the whitewashed stones . |
| 8 | They amounted to the grand sum of twelve pounds and ten shillings — a fortune ! |
| 9 | Presumably the washed-up film hoofer and the prima ballerina are thinking about each other as a preliminary to working together , falling in love and starting a bright new phase of their respective careers together ; and no doubt their movements ‘ unconsciously ’ fall into a complementary rhythm as they dance to the same music . |
| 10 | What themes emerged in public argument against the slave trade and how do they relate to the basic concern with good order and the imperative of action to achieve it ? |
| 11 | How , that is , do they relate to the particular things which are instances of them , and to our minds when we think of those things as men , or as triangles ? |
| 12 | Bottle 1:2:6 3 Dozn & 8 Bottles porter 16:0 Cold drams 2:0 Glasses broke 10 @ 6d. each 5:0 1779 " Renews the order on the Committee respecting the ffees of dressing fflax & they to report to the next meeting . " |
| 13 | Pews were not personal possessions that could be sold or bequeathed but were part of the property of each farm , tenement or cottage , they passed to the new owner or occupier once the property was sold or transferred . |
| 14 | Originally , they were the property of the crown , but in time they passed to the local aristocrats . |
| 15 | True , they led to the old Naval Dockyard but that did not generate many heavy goods vehicles and probably none at night . |
| 16 | They sold to the second buyers for the purpose of compounding into food for pigs and poultry . |
| 17 | They sold to the highest bidder , an antiquarian book-seller from Fife . |
| 18 | I made a great nuisance of myself and , in the end , they resorted to the traditional method of dealing with trouble-makers : they asked me to stand for my own ward at the next local government elections . |
| 19 | They applied to the local authority for accommodation as homeless persons , but were rejected on the ground that they had accommodation . |
| 20 | They correspond to the ventral basal muscles of the maxilla . |
| 21 | Self-help schemes provide Latin American governments with a cheap solution for housing the poor , but the contribution they make to the wider socio-economic structure is more far-reaching . |
| 22 | And they make to the same place to their feed . |
| 23 | Bolinger points out furthermore that the use of the to infinitive after verbs of perception when they shift to the inferential sense fits into an overall pattern with the object + infinitive construction . |
| 24 | That was not so on the men 's tour , which means it would be very much easier for the ITF to set up its own women 's tour linking many of the principal regular events such as Berlin , Eastbourne , Brighton etc , with the Grand Slams , than it would have been had they responded to the many appeals they had at the time to set up a men 's circuit in competition with ATP … |
| 25 | They testify to the long hours he has spent working under the eye of his father , Bob . |
| 26 | They moved to the Caribbean in 1984 after Mr Clarke 's mother left him a small banana plantation in her will . |
| 27 | Their search was fruitless so they moved to the other bed post . |
| 28 | Malik , a Cambridge Blue , owns the Reflex health club , which used to be Rugby 's clubhouse before they moved to the new one next door this season built at a cost of £438,000 . |
| 29 | If they report to the same boss they have an organizational bond ; if they are in different departments they have an organizational barrier . |
| 30 | If they report to the same boss they have an organizational bond ; if they are in different departments they have an organizational barrier . |