Example sentences of "they [vb past] [to-vb] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And they could have continued to pay £1 a year for the next 21 years but it is claimed that they failed to act in time . |
| 2 | The two decades on either side of 1500 were comparatively stable , with wages being only a little lower than in the middle of the fifteenth century , but by the second decade of the sixteenth they began to decline in face of increasing prices . |
| 3 | Yes , Elizabeth Howell of Exploring Parenthood , certainly that is the case , both with parents and with people like teachers or child care workers , who are in locus parentis for many hours of the day , and our sense is very much that if the adults around children can feel supported and confident that they can acknowledge their own fears and anxieties that they will then be better be able to transmit that measured response to the children in their care and it was very interesting last week , I heard from an educational psychologist in the north of England who said that a group of teachers had asked from several schools to come together to think about the resources that they needed to set in place in order to deal with the children 's behaviour , and after the meeting , at which they were able to express their anxieties , they then returned to their various areas and when the psychologist contacted them a couple of days later they said we felt sufficiently supported by knowing that others are struggling with the same issues and that we could acknowledge our concerns about it , that we now feel able to get on with the job of helping the children , and I think that was a very good example of adults finding a way to acknowledge their own anxieties and thereby to increase their effectiveness in dealing with the children that in whose care they have . |
| 4 | To achieve this they needed to keep in touch with the classroom directly rather than through intermediaries . |
| 5 | In her chapter of the development of children 's ability to write , Miranda Jones describes a longitudinal study she conducted in Edinburgh , which followed children 's understanding of writing from the preschool stage , through to how their understanding changed as they learned to write in school . |
| 6 | That bag of vagabonds had to grasp what they had to do in order to get there , which included discipline . |
| 7 | Even in my limited experience I had seen people falling in and out of love , as though , soiled by sorrow and loss , they had to go in search of comfort from one used and lukewarm bath to another . |
| 8 | well I expect if it was a church school they had to put in appearance odd times . |
| 9 | So , I mean , er it 's the proof old folks that get it , they got it in the war time , they had to starve in war time to feed their children . |
| 10 | Nor was the Treasury convinced by the repeated arguments for the costly increases in police manpower which most Home Secretaries felt they had to secure in order to demonstrate their credibility . |
| 11 | Central banks agreed to buy or sell unlimited amounts of currency at points 1 per cent either side of their established par values , although the mere fact that they were prepared and willing to do this was often sufficient to limit the extent to which they had to intervene in practice . |
| 12 | In essence , these created rebates on contributions to occupational schemes and reduced the requirements they had to meet in order to be officially ‘ approved ’ . |
| 13 | The goldsmiths learnt from experience what proportion of gold reserves they had to keep in order to meet day-to-day demands for gold withdrawals . |
| 14 | Like other genera and families they continued to change in structure , size and shape during the entire 140 million-year period of their existence . |
| 15 | They did not stay long , because her drowsiness began to increase , and a short time later they left to go in search of Women 's Surgical , where Stella greeted them with pleased surprise . |
| 16 | ‘ What 's going on ? ’ the piggies asked ( they tended to speak in unison ) . |
| 17 | ‘ Eleven members of staff volunteered and pupils paid 5p to vote for the one they wanted to cover in gunge . ’ |