Example sentences of "they [vb past] to [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They whispered to each other . |
| 2 | They whispered to each other that Tess was sure to marry that handsome gentleman . |
| 3 | Silver-blond and red-head , they clung to each other occasionally as long-time friends , and spoke to Nolan , cousin of one , ex-fiancé of the other , with an odd mixture of dread , exasperation and compassion . |
| 4 | They clung to each other , speaking in desperate whispers , sharing the shock and terror of a recently confirmed test result . |
| 5 | When he came to bed , they clung to each other , cold and clean and silent , feeling that even these small movements were overheard . |
| 6 | They clung to each other for support . |
| 7 | They clung to each other almost fearfully as though they believed that , in the whole of this alien and bewildering world , only the two of them had any real substance ; as if all else was an illusion . |
| 8 | Lets face it they get reasonable crowds every year , and last year they got to both cup finals … hence the money for Walker . |
| 9 | Treaty in so far as they applied to all owners , charterers , managers and operators of British fishing vessels and to 75 per cent . |
| 10 | On 11 April 1988 they moved to another council house , of which the brother also became a secure tenant . |
| 11 | Erm , apparently the first tune they used to those words , was a tune , which I 've not been able to find , which came from Britain . |
| 12 | Tories opposed the new credit system set up in the 1690s not because they objected to this type of economic enterprise , but because the benefits to be accrued from it largely passed them by . |
| 13 | I think a as far as this group is concerned it will be up to each respective union , er I think of who they invited to that seminar . |
| 14 | The Inland Revenue Technical Division were asked in correspondence whether they adhered to this view where the income in question was paid to a beneficiary who was neither resident nor ordinarily resident in the United Kingdom or , alternatively , where foreign source income was concerned , was paid outside the United Kingdom to a beneficiary who was not domiciled in the United Kingdom . |
| 15 | And they added to this evidence from contemporary institutions which were ‘ how we have always done things ’ . |
| 16 | On the basis of the answers they received to these questions Goldthorpe and his colleagues concluded that monotony is a definite source of job dissatisfaction . |
| 17 | I did tell him , however , that the older boys — and I was form-master of the modern sixth — were keenly interested in what was going on in modern literature , but that they seemed to some extent cushioned against modern life in their ignorance , which was almost total , of such currents of thought as Marxism . |
| 18 | They came to that conclusion on the grounds that it appeared to them to be a tenable meaning of the words and in accordance with what they thought to be the policy of the Act of 1914 as to jurisdiction . |
| 19 | ‘ Stephen , ’ Anna asked quietly , ‘ did you go to see Sarah and Hassan in Australia , the night before they came to this country ? ’ |
| 20 | They continued to walk along the corridors of the dungeons , until they came to another stairway . |
| 21 | He brought it up , let it look about as they came to another junction . |
| 22 | It was a terrible price to pay but most defend the legacy of ideas of fairness , justice and good government they communicated to many parts of the globe . |
| 23 | Garling 's design was also placed first on Angell and Pownall 's and Burn 's War Department lists , although the first place they awarded to another Second Empire scheme on the Foreign Office list , was only awarded the second prize by the judges . |
| 24 | After retirement they returned to that country to assist in the clinic in the embattled township of Alexandra , outside Johannesburg . |
| 25 | They talked of nothing major , but they returned to some things several times . |
| 26 | WHEN Derry and Fran Dunnett visited Inchcolm Abbey one day last summer they remarked to each other how lucky the abbey 's custodians were to live on the island . |
| 27 | They belonged to each other . |
| 28 | The Renaissance had provided western Europe with a handsome collection of hitherto lost Greek texts , literary , philosophical and historical , to be studied by scholars , admired by the cultivated ( generally in translation ) , and imitated , in part , by contemporary writers ; but insofar as the Renaissance was actually a " rebirth " of anything past , it was predominantly a rebirth of Rome and the spirit of Rome , not of Greece ; and the remains of Greek antiquity were treated , and well into the eighteenth century continued to be treated , largely as if they belonged to some kind of extension of the now assimilated world of Rome . |
| 29 | THEY belonged to another age : a more troubled time when jackboots and fascists dominated the headlines . |
| 30 | The way they talked to each other just went to emphasise this . |