Example sentences of "they [vb past] [to-vb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The upshot was that after much argument all three of them agreed to help out , and all five of us did manage to get to the church on time . |
| 2 | some of them forgot to come back at night . |
| 3 | It caused some mirth amongst my friends , but I noticed that several of them began to pin up similar notices in their own homes . |
| 4 | Neither of them needed to spell out the fact that the ‘ he ’ they were talking about was Cashman . |
| 5 | In 1688 some of them marched with the invading army of William of Orange to Salisbury where one of them decided to stay on as a small shopkeeper . |
| 6 | He 'd met Elaine on several trips around the island which Christina had arranged , including a hilarious afternoon when the three of them decided to try out the hotel 's water sports and attempted to learn to water-ski after too many rum sours at the Reef Bar . |
| 7 | Humbled at Sheffield Eagles on Sunday , in their first game after the defeat of Canberra Raiders , they failed to bounce back in the Lancashire Cup last night , losing to a disciplined Warrington side . |
| 8 | In B. 's case , the plaintiff 's complaint is of negligence by medical staff at a much earlier period — they carried out a dilation and curettage ( ‘ D. and C. procedure ’ ) at a time when the plaintiff 's mother was about five weeks pregnant with the plaintiff but did not know it , and they failed to carry out any pregnancy test before the D. and C. procedure . |
| 9 | Some of the shopkeepers , including Debbie Pitman , have issued writs against the developers , claiming that they failed to carry out agreements to promote the docks . |
| 10 | They were so intent on watching every car that they failed to pick up Moran 's until it was turning slowly in the gate under the yew tree . |
| 11 | The alarm was raised when they failed to turn up at their destination at 1pm . |
| 12 | The Quebec government , however , warned the federal government and the English-speaking provinces that if they failed to come up with an acceptable constitutional solution , Quebec would proceed with its own independence referendum by October 1992 . |
| 13 | Even President George Bush told his team not to come back to the USA if they failed to win back the Cup while one British tabloid quoted our own Peter Alliss on how the matches have moved away from the original concept of GB v USA and goodwill through golf . |
| 14 | There would , however , be a selective audit of returns and self-assessed tax payments and taxpayers would be liable to surcharges if they failed to send in payments , returns or accounts on time . |
| 15 | Milton tried hard in those last few minutes and forced Bicester on the defensive , but they failed to break down and Bicester won two nil in this very very entertaining cup match . |
| 16 | Clearly they failed to bring about disarmament , though they may have had a contributory effect on the decision to suspend tests in 1958 and later on the partial test ban treaty . |
| 17 | Though they failed to make up a similar deficit against Essex on day two , losing 5–4 , their two doubles victories kept up their tally of rubbers going into the final day . |
| 18 | And the I suppose they expected to whirl round like that and all go into the er the the boxes . |
| 19 | And they got to go down and get another one . |
| 20 | I say wonders will never cease I have just written a receipt for Mrs and I have put it in her envelope and I have written my name in , in on , I 've put from and put my name and crossed out caretaker and put treasurer and I have put underneath we do not have a caretaker so we will see what happens How did , how is it that they got to go back with them ? |
| 21 | They got to go out tonight . |
| 22 | Well they got to close up . |
| 23 | They planned to go back on and complete their set with vocals from Cressa of The Stone Roses , who had been on the whole tour and knew most of the songs . |
| 24 | They planned to go back on and complete their set with vocals from Cressa of The Stone Roses , who had been on the whole tour and knew most of the songs . |
| 25 | After that they planned to pick up more provisions at Ivrigar , Ratagan 's home , and return to the Rorim on the third or fourth day , by which time the council would be winding down , or even finished . |
| 26 | I wanted to meet these people so I bombarded ATV until they agreed to give out my name at the end of the programme . |
| 27 | They agreed to set up a Supreme Council of British Mosques to consider how British Muslims should respond to Saddam Hussein 's call for a holy war . |
| 28 | They agreed to set up a working group on normalizing relations , to meet in New York , headed by Kenneth Quinn , a US deputy assistant secretary of state , and Trinh Xuan Lang , Vietnam 's ambassador to the UN . |
| 29 | In Brussels yesterday , EC transport ministers took a step towards allowing the European Commission to negotiate transport accords on behalf of EC states , when they agreed to set up a working party to see when and how the Commission could negotiate . |
| 30 | In Brussels yesterday , EC transport ministers took a step towards allowing the executive European Commission to negotiate transport accords on behalf of EC states , when they agreed to set up a working party to see when and how the Commission could negotiate . |