Example sentences of "they [vb past] [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He led his female into a cave where they spawned nose to tail in typical mouthbrooder fashion . |
| 2 | The Paul Jones and the emotional somersaults when the music stopped and they came face to face for the very first time . |
| 3 | As he drew closer and they came face to face , she drew herself up and eyed him coldly . |
| 4 | He was not at all what Brownlow expected when they came face to face . |
| 5 | They heard his step falter and as they pressed into the doorway after him they came face to face with Philippe Maurin , holding a gun . |
| 6 | More recently they shared the points when they came face to face in the league opener at Newry . |
| 7 | They came face to face on the rug between the two chairs . |
| 8 | Priding themselves on being modern-minded about such things , they subjected passion to planning and decided to have a spring baby . |
| 9 | The Japanese are ahead in robotics because they paid attention to demographics . |
| 10 | Nineteenth-century Boulton and Watt , Maudsley and Harvey beam engines are here , where until the end of the Second World War they supplied water to west London . |