Example sentences of "they [vb past] [to-vb] with [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 The nearest she would get was that she wanted time , time to herself to think , to read , to find out how other people lived ; how they managed to live , how they managed to face up to the tragedies ; their scraping for a living ; and how they managed to cope with love .
2 They wished to proceed with demolition and a public inquiry was held .
3 One deplorable result of this early specialisation is that university science and engineering departments choose their students from the minority of sixth formers who knew at 16 that they wanted to continue with maths and science .
4 And er I had asked there was anything you know , they would be interested in and they all agreed that they wanted to start with banking , and wha , see what Sandra had done last er ta last year with a group that they thought was very good getting them to be aware
5 Finally , the ladies packed two small glass bottles , which they intended to fill with grape juice crushed from the fruit of Noah 's vineyard .
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