Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , they clung on to a victory which served to rekindle hopes among the travelling support that all was not lost after all in the title race , especially after news leaked through of Rangers ' demise at Celtic Park . |
| 2 | As for the three goblins , they crept back to the king of the vookodlaks and he beat them all , and made them stand on their heads in the mud for three years and thirty days . |
| 3 | As they got closer to the centre they appeared to change colour . |
| 4 | Eventually , they got around to the main purpose of the visit . |
| 5 | And then there is this long-standing relationship between Martinez and Jefferson , and the dirty work they got up to a few years ago . |
| 6 | Well we had a old wooden crane aboard the dredger , that was all hand power , that 's just the old wooden derrick and when they got up to the , up to the dock , they had a , cos they had a crane paint with it or a steam crane . |
| 7 | Nelson had planned to take her to town , but when they got up to the car park he could n't get his car to start . |
| 8 | They got on to the airfield that night and started to place their bombs , but as the aircraft were widely dispersed , this took time in the dark . |
| 9 | They got on to the field without difficulty in the middle of a bombing raid by the RAF on Benghazi , and sat there while their leader gave them a lecture on deer-stalking in the Highlands . |
| 10 | Before they got on to the subject of the commune they had been discussing which item of Hilbert 's former property they should sell next . |
| 11 | The traffic into Belfast was heavy , and it was a while before they got on to the motorway . |
| 12 | Well we 've talked football , we 've talked speedway , we 're now going to talk rugby , because if you 've been following the exploits of the Bicester Rugby Club , you 'll know they got through to the semi-finals of a big national competition , and they play that semi-final this coming Saturday . |
| 13 | They would chat away to her about their day until they got down to the schoolwork . |
| 14 | before they got down to the autographs . |
| 15 | It was only when they got down to the particular that problems arose . |
| 16 | And erm , after that they got down to the serious business ! |
| 17 | It was a great escape for a team so used to getting caught , but Rough and his fellow revellers chanced their luck and noisily ordered room-service when they got back to the hotel . |
| 18 | ‘ When they got back to the Lodge around eleven o'clock , Pinder ostentatiously said ‘ 'goodnight ’ to the group and went back to his own bedroom . |
| 19 | When they got back to the farmyard the Substitute had vanished . |
| 20 | Jenkins unlocked one of the bedrooms when they got back to the Windorah and switched on the light after he had crossed to the window to draw the curtains . |
| 21 | By the time they got back to the house it was past eight . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've got one thing to tell you and one favour to ask of you , ’ Ian said to Julia the minute they got back to the Amy Roy . |
| 23 | They walked the rest of the distance in silence , and by the time they got back to the car it was baking hot . |
| 24 | When they got back to the flat , Mum emptied out all the vegetables and fruit and Pete took the box to his room . |
| 25 | And when they got back to the meadow , Lucie had sent all the people home , refusing every one of their eager tributes . |
| 26 | By the time they got back to the Buccaneer , the sun was turning pink and orange to usher in another early Caribbean night , and Virginia felt weary with the emotional tension of avoiding either body or eye contact with her companion , and keeping the conversation on a relentlessly impersonal level . |
| 27 | When they got back to the hotel , Damian strode through the foyer , saying curtly , ‘ I 'd like to go over the minutes you took at the board meeting yesterday . ’ |
| 28 | They got off to a blinder against the Sharks … catching them napping repeatedly in the first period to put six past them . |
| 29 | Darlington won 20–15 at North Durham , where they got off to a flying start with two tries in the first 20 minutes by winger Martin Bewick and flanker Paul Barkes . |
| 30 | They got off to a great start when they almost scored after just two and a half minutes , when Jim Magilton fed Lee Nogan , and his left foot shot was brilliantly saved by Eric Torsvale , tipping the ball all round the post for a corner . |