Example sentences of "they [vb past] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well they got to court without a solicitor cos they were n't entitled to Legal Aid , and now you see that 's another thing , they 're both out of work , they were n't entitled to any Legal Aid , so they had to go on their own to court |
| 2 | They got to bed at ten to seven , they were shattered . |
| 3 | Yes , I just wondered if they could n't sort of do a , a deal , you know to get them by air , the only thing about it is if they got to sort of |
| 4 | In the Muslim world their impotence made them perfect harem guards and they rose to power as chamberlains , governors and even generals . |
| 5 | Entranced , she watched herself watching them as they spiralled to earth around her . |
| 6 | The feelings of the young hon. Member for Gedling ( Mr. Mitchell ) about the way in which local government has broken up were expressed subjectively and I suspect that he will not agree with me when I say that they seemed to date from about 1979 — and we know what happened in 1979 when the hon. Member for Finchley ( Mrs. Thatcher ) was first elected . |
| 7 | These were the children some of the teachers looked down on because they came to school with unmended holes in their jumpers , or no proper shoes , only canvas sandshoes to see them through the winter . |
| 8 | There is almost a tinge of predestination in footballers ' reflections on how they came to sport in the first place . |
| 9 | And this , in turn , would seem to justify Professor Gaddis 's conclusion that the assumption was that such governments , whether in Western Europe or Japan , and whether or not they came to power by legal or illegal means , could only be regarded as instruments of the Kremlin and hence not truly independent . |
| 10 | The overstretch of the regular army did not become a major political issue during the last of years of the Conservative Government ( then under Douglas Home , who succeeded Macmillan in October 1963 ) : it was a legacy left to Labour when they came to power in October 1964 . |
| 11 | The Socialists claim proudly that it is their most left-wing manifesto since since they came to power in 1982 and hint that their liberal finance minister , Carlos Solchaga , is for the chop . |
| 12 | When they came to power in 1970 the Conservatives decided that public expenditure on local authority housing needed to be curbed . |
| 13 | There was not a word said of business until they came to table in Isambard 's great hall , where the envoy found himself in the place of honour at his host 's right hand . |
| 14 | During their stay in Woodstock they came to tea with us in our flat in the Banbury Road . |
| 15 | Spain 's Socialists junked dogma when they came to office in 1982 . |
| 16 | They clambered to respectability by continually putting their own house in order , and in a way the battle to bring in not only the middle classes but the religious , the political , and the serious-minded took far more energy and ingenuity than winning that initial mass audience . |
| 17 | Hesitantly , they began to trip from side to side , facing each other , he always encouraging her , like two lunatic children in a dance . |
| 18 | When they returned to work on Saturday morning , they found that the pressure in the apparatus had stayed high but , by Monday , it had fallen , indicating that a leak had developed . |
| 19 | All 27,000 dismissed and striking workers would be permitted to return to employment in the same job and at the same grade and wage as at the beginning of the strike , provided that they returned to work in the period from Jan. 31 to Feb. 6 . |
| 20 | Management offered to pay the workers for the lost days if they returned to work by Wednesday morning , but at a mass meeting on Tuesday 10 June workers voted 48 to 10 against resuming work and rejecting settlement proposals worked out between management and the union until they had seen a report from the Department of Labour Factory Inspectorate . |
| 21 | In Sweden the Social Democrats were ousted from power in 1976 after forty-five years in office by an alliance of ‘ bourgeois ’ parties , although they returned to office in 1982 . |
| 22 | But both authors recognise that experience in office in the coalition government had made the Labour leaders more cautious than they would otherwise have been : Dr Marwick comments that ‘ Middle-class radicalism and official trade unionism were much stronger influences than left-wing Socialism ’ , and Dr Addison speaks of an ‘ Attlee consensus ’ to which the Conservatives , when they returned to office in 1951 , also subscribed . |
| 23 | Apart from the alienation of some of his followers , the loyalty of many others was so tried that by 1013 they submitted to Swegen with little resistance . |
| 24 | They dashed to safety as a massive wall of water smashed their caravans to matchsticks and swept away dozens of cars . |
| 25 | He opened the door , and they started to troop across the ward to Donna 's room . |
| 26 | Hemel Royals .. 60 Reykjavik ..... 64 ( Reykjavik win 118-105 on agg ) KODAK HEMEL ROYALS followed Manchester Giants out of European competition last night when they lost to Reykjavik of Iceland in the first round of the Korac Cup , writes Duncan Hooper . |
| 27 | They starved to death with the sumptuous feast laid out before them . |
| 28 | So angry was he with her that he flung a handful of the stars after her , and they fell to earth with such force that they formed a row of waterholes across the country . |
| 29 | No it used to be just the sacks stop the dust and go down the back and I 've known the time what er , when they needed a regular gang of dockers , if they went to work on er , on er Monday morning with a dirty head bag on made of calico , they 'd have to buy the beer cos they had , if they ai n't got a clean head bag on or a cl clean skullcap , there used to be a little old calico skullcap they used to put on just to keep the dust out the hair and all like that . |
| 30 | Now they went to work on population too . |