Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pers pn] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They got him to hospital , but then he had a second attack . |
| 2 | Instead of transferring the ball from defence to attack with the trajectory of a mortar shell , they passed it to feet , and were even allowed to run with it . |
| 3 | The Court of Appeal dismissed an Inland Revenue challenge to a High Court ruling that £75,000 paid to England and Derby County goalkeeper Peter Shilton by Nottingham Forest when they sold him to Southampton in 1982 should be treated as a ‘ golden handshake ’ . |
| 4 | United will be getting around three hundred thousand pounds of that … they sold him to Stoke on the proviso of a share of any future deals — bingo ! |
| 5 | The story going around at the time was that he had ticked off the Lebanese bureau staff to the point where they sold him to Hezbollah for a bit of peace and quiet ! |
| 6 | and they get that one back in Thursday and they read it to teacher , so it 's two a week and up till |
| 7 | They never actually moved in and they promised it to Daddy . |
| 8 | And then they and took this poor old wife and they beat her to death with the flails . |
| 9 | They beat they beat him to death . |
| 10 | The solo climber was in a bad way , and they invited him to rope up with them . |
| 11 | They invited me to punk parties as noisy as tractor factories , where I swigged flat cans of beer , already shaken with a twist of cigarette butt . |
| 12 | My parents and I saw her in the school play and they thought she was so wonderful that they invited her to lunch — to make me see what I could be if I did it right . |
| 13 | Denis and Astrid met us at Boston airport , waving large federal flags and they transported us to Astrid 's parents ' home in Becket , Massachusetts . |
| 14 | Anyway … they told us to hand in all our Arctic kit , fur parkas , white camouflage , etc . ’ |
| 15 | Anyone who saw us , even if they loathed us to death , they 'd have to take notice . |
| 16 | Anyone who saw us , even if they loathed us to death , they 'd have to take notice . |
| 17 | They bored me to death . |
| 18 | They showed it to Murray and he confiscated it immediately . |
| 19 | They raised them to 100% so that all secondary education was to be carried out on selection by merit.47 |
| 20 | During the late nineteenth century , Medical Officers of Health , in particular , contended that women going out to work were responsible for raising the infant mortality rate because they tended to bottle-feed their infants and because , by carrying them out to nurse in the early morning , they exposed them to bronchitis . |
| 21 | They taught me to ollie and stuff and I really liked it and kept going and never stopped . |
| 22 | That was for the older girls , and they frightened us to death with tales of what this Fanny-Annie , as they said called her , had er had said to them , and how rude she was , terrible . |
| 23 | His father was born in Germany , and a teenager when they brought him to Detroit . |
| 24 | They took him to Melland Street near Darlington Civic Theatre , where they stole the money he was carrying . |
| 25 | When they took him to Florida , he was n't so bothered about Mickey Mouse . |
| 26 | They felt he was bored so they took him to training classes and Tricia said he 's an absolute natural . |
| 27 | Thom picked up two oranges from the gutter but someone saw him and they took him to Derby Street police station and he got the sack from the police . |
| 28 | They took him to John Gifford , minister of an Independent or Baptist congregation in Bedford which the Cromwellian government had installed in an Anglican church . |
| 29 | And if they took him to hospital he 'd just do the same thing again and again , until his family gave in . |
| 30 | And he said I was completely confused and I could n't , he said I was trying to shout my wife and erm and , er , you know my mouth would n't work , he said , but she said fortunately she looked through the window and er found him and they took him to hospital . |