Example sentences of "they [vb past] to [det] " 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 | So that they got to all go off at once . |
| 9 | Lets face it they get reasonable crowds every year , and last year they got to both cup finals … hence the money for Walker . |
| 10 | There was general agreement that current initiatives to meet those problems were ineffective , that there was little consultation with the people of West Belfast and that frequently they amounted to little more than cosmetic exercises . |
| 11 | Even so , they amounted to some ten thousand men , a gallant and glittering array of knightly chivalry and armoured strength . |
| 12 | When we look specifically at machinery imports from the West , we find that at their peak in the mid-1970s , they amounted to some 5–6 per cent of equipment investment . |
| 13 | One of Mr Thomas 's conditions , supported by Mrs Noble , was that Edward and Helen should not correspond when he left for Oxford , and they agreed to this for the first term . |
| 14 | They agreed to this and even gave him their headed notepaper to use in ordering . |
| 15 | Treaty in so far as they applied to all owners , charterers , managers and operators of British fishing vessels and to 75 per cent . |
| 16 | When government cash was withdrawn they applied to several charitable foundations for funding . |
| 17 | Thanks also to Lynn Inglis and her team for the many newsletters they produced to such a high standard . |
| 18 | On 11 April 1988 they moved to another council house , of which the brother also became a secure tenant . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | And they added to this evidence from contemporary institutions which were ‘ how we have always done things ’ . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Uncertainty and the reinterpretation of crucial pieces of work were not yet necessary in physics in the 1870s and 1880s , as they seemed to many to be in the human sciences and in the sphere of religion under the pressure of evolutionary theory and the Second Law of Thermodynamics . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ Stephen , ’ Anna asked quietly , ‘ did you go to see Sarah and Hassan in Australia , the night before they came to this country ? ’ |
| 29 | He brought it up , let it look about as they came to another junction . |
| 30 | At length they came to another smaller gate , flanked by a gloriously lopsided storybook cottage . |