Example sentences of "they [vb past] to [pers pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When they got to him ninety-eight per cent of his body had been burned . |
| 2 | They seemed to him beautiful , showing up the texture of her skin . |
| 3 | They came to her one by one : Brendan , Shane , Rhett , Niall and Roger , and she was hugged and kissed by each in turn , so that her cheeks burned from the scrubbing of their coarse beards . |
| 4 | So she and Monty would stay up all night rewriting their scenes , which they presented to me each morning . |
| 5 | They spoke to her all the time , nudged her to help her mother , helped her to notice things and get them done before she was asked . |
| 6 | This is when I was pregnant went to put my name down on the housing list and they said to me sorry you ca n't we 've got too many people on there already . |
| 7 | I 'm frightened of the probation and the social services finding out that I 'm using again , 'cos when I came out this time , they said to me that , if I ever went back on the smack , that the kids 'd be took off me , no two ways about it … . |