Example sentences of "they [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Just as they got to Benina airfield , Lilley shouted out that there was trouble ahead — a sting of red lights across the road . |
| 32 | They got to bed at ten to seven , they were shattered . |
| 33 | They got to Ryan 's bedroom just in time to stop a bunch of kids they did n't even know putting his treasured copy of the Beatles White LP on the turntable . |
| 34 | Indefatigably the Lionisers prowled their way along Albion Street and surged up the narrow Fort Road , but this time they stopped before they got to Fort House . |
| 35 | When they got to St-Jean it was only a little past midnight and the cafes were still open . |
| 36 | By the time they got to town , most of the heavy stuff should be over . |
| 37 | quite easy , well it was comparatively easy , only trouble was of course that erm at night erm one had to go right down from County Hall to Barrett Corner to get on the bus because they were so full by the time they got to County Hall and erm so I used to walk down there with erm a chap from the Education Department , who was in the Works and Stores , a chap and erm , he was quite helpful . |
| 38 | When they got to Bridge they , if they had n't got a permit they they had to go back , the pickets 'd be there . |
| 39 | This poses the interesting question of how they got to Machynlleth in the first place . |
| 40 | If the police were thinking about blackmail it would n't be long before they got to Barbara Porter . |
| 41 | They all laughed and joked until they got to Holborn . |
| 42 | First , it was assumed that no long-range problems would occur ; that is , that the acidifying or toxic power of the gases would be neutralised long before they got to Scandinavia or anywhere else . |
| 43 | 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 |
| 44 | When they got to Plymouth he would be station-master as well . |
| 45 | Todger had never been the same since they got to Hambury . |
| 46 | But by the time they got to Maidstone that morning , Neil realised that his passenger was unlikely ever again to face any kind of questioning . |
| 47 | It would have taken an army to shift the travellers once they got to Castlemorton . |
| 48 | Five years later , when the remaining bonds were transferred to the regular Exchequer rolls for collection , they amounted to £15,000 in face value , owed by more than 430 debtors . |
| 49 | ‘ The delays involved were altogether unacceptable in my view and I had no doubt that they amounted to maladministration . ’ |
| 50 | In their defensive exchanges , they ceased to value what had first so attracted them to each other . |
| 51 | Last year they doubled to $18 billion , including Campeau and Continental Airlines . |
| 52 | Wayne Thomas , 19 , appeared before magistrates on four occasions — but each time they agreed to defence applications to allow him bail . |
| 53 | They rode to Queensferry and persuaded the master boatman , against his better judgement , to ferry them across the Firth of Forth to Inverkeithing . |
| 54 | From there they rode to Dunvegan , either more or less as the crow flies by a drovers ' trail , or coming down from Greshornish to join what is now the A850 , at a point about half-way between Portree and their destination , Dunvegan Castle . |
| 55 | Mrs Pouncey is at present editing his diaries , drawing attention to entries such as one for October 1949 , when , between 7.17 am and 12.25 pm he visited no less than twelve Roman churches , certainly with the intense concentration he devoted to each of the many visits they made to Italy together . |
| 56 | What a contribution they made to winter fogs , thought Joe . |
| 57 | No further alterations were made until after they passed to London Transport in 1933 . |
| 58 | After her death they passed to Tree 's grandchildren , David Tree and Virginia , Marchioness of Bath ( who is , incidentally , President of the Friends of the Theatre Collection ) . |
| 59 | In their lavish use of Japanese lacquer coupled with a relatively restrained form they were especially attractive to contemporary taste , and they sold to London dealer Bill Redford for $1.55 million ( £861,100 ) ( est. $1–1.5 million ) , reputedly acting for the London steel magnate Ronald Fuhrer . |
| 60 | They resorted to terror and adventurism , for which there was no justification now that a powerful Social Democratic movement had taken shape , and they failed to acknowledge the leadership that must be exercised by the proletariat over the peasantry and the democratic movement as a whole . |