Example sentences of "they [vb past] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If the buses came as far as Clifton Road it would be alright but any further away and people would have practically walked into town by the time they got to the nearest bus stop . ’ |
| 2 | I did hear they got to the 1/4 finals ( ie won 2 matches ) about 4 years ago , but Im sure they would have said last night if they had beaten anyone decent . |
| 3 | What happened to them when they got to the other end I have never dared to ask , but perhaps these few illustrations ( pages 82–83 ) will convince you that Doc Winfield actually sat in this contraption and was hooked from a completely static position by an aircraft into the air and probably ( and I never found out ) delivered to some hospital none the worse for the experiment . |
| 4 | " I saw Slater heading out the door with some rug-chested young Romeo , " Mr Hunter said as they got to the second-floor landing in the big house . |
| 5 | The farmers going to market had come down from Barking and Ringshall and those places , and on the rough owd country roads they managed ; but as soon as they got to the tarred road in Needham street they had to stop . |
| 6 | The orphans were hungry as well as tired , and the first thing they did when they got to the disused school in Malvern where they 'll be based was to tuck into a slap-up meal . |
| 7 | At the end of the long road Reynolds ' was the first house they had to pass and they started to cringe into themselves behind Moran even before they got to the little hedge of privet above the whitewashed stones . |
| 8 | They amounted to the grand sum of twelve pounds and ten shillings — a fortune ! |
| 9 | Pews were not personal possessions that could be sold or bequeathed but were part of the property of each farm , tenement or cottage , they passed to the new owner or occupier once the property was sold or transferred . |
| 10 | Originally , they were the property of the crown , but in time they passed to the local aristocrats . |
| 11 | True , they led to the old Naval Dockyard but that did not generate many heavy goods vehicles and probably none at night . |
| 12 | They sold to the second buyers for the purpose of compounding into food for pigs and poultry . |
| 13 | They sold to the highest bidder , an antiquarian book-seller from Fife . |
| 14 | I made a great nuisance of myself and , in the end , they resorted to the traditional method of dealing with trouble-makers : they asked me to stand for my own ward at the next local government elections . |
| 15 | They applied to the local authority for accommodation as homeless persons , but were rejected on the ground that they had accommodation . |
| 16 | They moved to the Caribbean in 1984 after Mr Clarke 's mother left him a small banana plantation in her will . |
| 17 | Their search was fruitless so they moved to the other bed post . |
| 18 | Malik , a Cambridge Blue , owns the Reflex health club , which used to be Rugby 's clubhouse before they moved to the new one next door this season built at a cost of £438,000 . |
| 19 | The advent of work with apprentices gave a new dimension to the Eastern District 's overall programme : alongside the expansion in trade union provision and the increase in branches and branch membership , they contributed to the growing self-assurance of the District by the later 1950s . |
| 20 | The only redeeming feature was that he and Shan Hackett had lunch in Monty 's personal mess and ran up a goodly drinks bill which they charged to the teetotal general . |
| 21 | Caddies also had to replace divots , smooth out bunkers , sell any balls they found to the Professional and clean the golfer 's clubs immediately after the game . |
| 22 | They fled to the low countries , fell among thieves , and Katharine was reduced to giving birth to her son on the steps of a church at Wesel , even the sexton refusing to give them shelter . |
| 23 | There was no mention in the treaty , however , either of the estates in Scotland granted to English lords by Edward I and lost as Bruce gained control of the country , or of the Scottish lands held by Anglo-Scottish lords such as the Earl of Angus and forfeited when they adhered to the English cause . |
| 24 | For these the primary schools provided a gentle haven before they transferred to the local secondary modern school . |
| 25 | As Wesley had done , and as Rational Dissenters very frequently did , they alluded to the natural rights of all men . |
| 26 | The gothic spires of parliament shimmered in the autumnal sunlight as they drove to the far side of Parliament Square and turned right towards Victoria . |
| 27 | They drove to the little creek where they kept their fishing boat , and moaned extensively to other men with blue-knit jumpers and glowing pipes . |
| 28 | They came to the following conclusions : |
| 29 | When they came to the two roads , they stopped . |
| 30 | Fellow aviculturalists ‘ do n't call them twitchers , it 's the ultimate insult , ’ said Yvonne , Harry 's daughter Robin Pickering and Peter Banks from Stanhope were called in , and after much research and consultation they came to the extraordinary conclusion that this was a Glaucous Macaw . |