Example sentences of "they [vb past] a [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early in 1991 , they announced an extension to their popular Graphical User Interface , Windows 3 which has itself sold nearly 2.5 million copies since it was launched in May 1990 . |
| 2 | On the way to the tomato patch they made a detour to Louis 's workshop to collect some baskets . |
| 3 | Dorothy 's Journals provide a record of the tour , which involved the use of a vehicle described as ‘ an Irish jaunting car ’ ; they made a pilgrimage to the grave of Burns and visited Sir Walter Scott , whose Lay of the Last Minstrel was to introduce the new metre of Christabel to a public who had never heard of the source . |
| 4 | They were taken aback as the huge hangar doors blew in and fortunately they made a move to an interior fortified wall just as the roof was torn off and the building collapsed . |
| 5 | When they applied a voltage to the grid , the pyrole polymerised onto it . |
| 6 | Users were intercepted as they approached a terminal to either catalogue and asked to undertake their searches under controlled conditions . |
| 7 | Eight people were arrested yesterday after police with riot shields were attacked by about 30 teenagers as they moved a family to safety from a council house at Southmead , Bristol . |
| 8 | In 1421 they entered a contract to be loyal to each other without dissimulation or fraud . |
| 9 | They provided an introduction to the new qualifications , with workshops covering general SVQs in each vocational area . |
| 10 | They found an extension to the drawing room with thigh-high cannabis plants growing in polythene bags full of compost . |
| 11 | While it is true that by the turn of the century both middle and working class women were profoundly affected by the gospel of maternalism preached by the medical profession , imperialists and politicians , it is also possible to find examples of straightforward resistance to physicians both on the grounds that they encouraged middle class women to lead idle lives and that they posed a threat to female modesty . |
| 12 | Britain 's problems were now so acute that they posed a threat to American interests and the free world 's financial system . |
| 13 | André 's delighted grin brought a resigned smile to her lips , and they caught a cab to one of the casinos , where the roulette tables were buzzing with that particular glittering breed of night-life whose adrenalin flowed in front of the gambling table . |
| 14 | Two of them , disguised as Spanish workers , walked the seventeen kilometres to Parma where they caught a train to Milan , and were arrested on the way . |
| 15 | From there , they drove to Zagreb where they caught a plane to Heathrow . |
| 16 | They composed a letter to the Social Work Services Group , a department of the Scottish Office , and to the Local Government Ombudsman . |
| 17 | Romania looked world beaters when they thrashed Wales 5–1 last May , but they dropped a point to the Czechs at the weekend and are notoriously bad away from home . |
| 18 | ‘ Capitalist swine , ’ she murmured , and sank back into a sleep in which she tossed and stretched and he was sure muttered someone else 's name , but in the morning went with him to a garage and they actually bought a car , albeit second hand , and she let herself be dragged into a travel agency and they booked a holiday to Spain just like anyone else . |
| 19 | New ideas such as the transmutation of species acquired political overtones because they symbolized a challenge to the existing power structure both within science and within society at large . |
| 20 | When Ross and Minton set off in August 1947 , stopping first in Paris where they obtained a passage to Ajaccio from the French Minister of Culture , Louis Joxe , they did not know each other well . |
| 21 | When police investigations began to point towards the culprits , they addressed a petition to King George VI appealing for the stone 's formal return to Scotland , and fastened this to the door of St Giles 's cathedral in Edinburgh . |
| 22 | A group of Scots taken prisoner at Solway Moss , the earls of Glencairn and Cassillis , lords Fleming , Maxwell , Somerville and others , obtained their release and were sent back to Scotland when they signed a request to Henry that he should take Mary into his care , with the intention of marrying her to his son , the future Edward VI ; their offer that they would help to bring him to power in Scotland , should Mary die , was kept entirely secret . |
| 23 | 17–6–1848 They forwarded a memorial to Lord John Russell praying that the Post Office should be caused to be shut throughout the Kingdom on the Lord 's day ; and on 19th February 1849 they petitioned the shareholders at Perth against running trains on the Sabbath . |
| 24 | At the same time they submitted a memorial to Manners which stated their conviction ‘ that by a developement [ sic ] on the basis of the old architecture of the country there exists the best hope of our Public Buildings being effectually improved in character ’ . |
| 25 | They talked a lot to each other , and sometimes I could hear what they said , even when they were in another room . |
| 26 | They delivered a letter to the Chancellor today setting out what they think need to get their wheels turning again . |
| 27 | It was still dark and cold , so , to raise their spirits , they sang a hymn to the sun-god , the great Daybog , calling on him to rise and give them warmth and light . |
| 28 | They demanded an end to the use of racism by management to divide workers . |
| 29 | Henceforward the black vote had to be considered by every politician , and black leaders became more outspoken as they demanded an end to segregation . |
| 30 | Next morning they took a cab to Holborn . |