Example sentences of "they [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They made little impact and at the end of the decade some of them resorted to terrorist attacks on senior officials in an effort to destabilize the government . |
| 2 | How many of them led to changes in classroom practice ? |
| 3 | Lake Okeechobee is so full of nutrients , most of them traced to cow manure , that algae have all but suffocated it . |
| 4 | Some of them came to Kufra , and a deputation of Zuwaya went out to meet them in the desert , inviting them to turn back . |
| 5 | Several of them came to London in order to discuss the possibilities of an armistice and ultimately of peace , but they could only meet junior officials from the Foreign Office and absolutely nothing transpired . |
| 6 | But Mains was gaining confidence , and talented players — many of them attracted to Otago by various means from outside unions . |
| 7 | Those who commission buildings rarely know what they want ; those who conceive grand plans see them reduced to ashes by the planning system . |
| 8 | During the miners ' strike in 1984 , members of the South Wales area of the National Union of Mineworkers supported the strike call but , months later , a few of them returned to work under extensive protection from the police . |
| 9 | None of them returned to Soos Creek , the site of their birth and first year of life . |
| 10 | This factor is always at the back of the minds of today 's senior men of science ; in fact many of them returned to Germany from studies or refuges abroad to rebuild the system . |
| 11 | If in the end we wish to locate God in the destruction of Jericho , should we not search for him lying in the dust with the rest of his people of that city , like them hacked to pieces ? |
| 12 | The crew of six survived the impact , five of them escaped to Sweden by the sixth member , Vic Stevens the Flight Engineer , injured his foot and being unable to travel was captured by the Germans . |
| 13 | Neither of them was in religious orders and , whether or not either of them aspired to sainthood , both clearly felt that sharing their " confessions " was an important social act . |
| 14 | With his wife and daughter he took a small cottage in the Market Square , ( adjacent to the Red Lion and opposite the White Lion ) , and there seven more children were born , though not all of them grew to maturity . |
| 15 | As one of them related to Yakovlev , he had tried to get straw from his brother in a nearby village when he ran out of lighting-fuel , but officials had stopped him , since he was stealing ‘ from the poor … there 's sucilizm ( sic ) for you ’ , Ivanovka Soviet on the other hand was managed by no obvious clique , and the very few rich peasants had no general influence in the village , which contained no poor households but a lot of middling ones . |
| 16 | The Trimdon seven , incidentally , are joined by Hartlepool 's Keith Nobbs who like them went to Sedgefield Comp but is definitely a foreigner . |
| 17 | Donald Orr , millwright of Starchmill , aged 67 , named twenty families who went from Killinan , his father being one of them , seven from Kynagarry and three from Courlach , and said some of them went to America . |
| 18 | Some of them went to England , to the Earl of Moray . |
| 19 | Ellen wondered if he had petit mal and looked it up in a medical dictionary — neither of them went to doctors if they could help it — but the entry was not very helpful , and it seemed in any case the kind of symptom it would be better to be vague about , not define , not name , for fear the naming made it worse , less likely to evaporate out of existence . |
| 20 | " One of them went to Australia , " said Clara , " and the other one is married , and lives right the other side of town . |
| 21 | In 1880 , many of them went to Newport Pagnell when the Swan Hotel was burned down . |
| 22 | Although the principal activity of many of the nobles in Edward III 's reign was war , their fundamental concern was always their inheritance , the lands and rights which formed the basis of their wealth and power and which they expected to hand on to their heirs . |
| 23 | When they got to Wickhams , they were determined to enjoy themselves . |
| 24 | 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 |
| 25 | There are different versions of how they got to Japan , but eventually they were accepted as useful allies and were sent back to recruit more potential fighters in Rangoon . |
| 26 | When facing a critical party conference in 1921 , Austen Chamberlain had urged Neville to see that suitable people were selected to represent all twelve Birmingham divisions and to pay their expenses to make sure that they got to Liverpool . |
| 27 | This was all very well and most wooden ships were watertight in harbour but , without exception , they all leaked when they got to sea . |
| 28 | It may be that depredations had occurred before they got to Strichen ; Boswell , who had visited fifteen years earlier , clearly expected more from the druidical circle , although whether to impress Johnson further , or to avoid being thought an inaccurate provider of anticipations , is difficult to tell , as he does not expand beyond saying , ‘ … |
| 29 | Matters did not improve when they got to Glenelg and found an appalling inn — although it did draw from Johnson one of his best remarks of the entire tour . |
| 30 | BY THE time they got to Woodstock they might have been half a million strong , but give them a few days in the mud and they 'd soon wandered off into an acid daze looking for luxuries like a toilet , somewhere to sleep and a decent tofu burger . |