Example sentences of "soon as they [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The farmers going to market had come down from Barking and Ringshall and those places , and on the rough owd country roads they managed ; but as soon as they got to the tarred road in Needham street they had to stop . |
| 2 | Steve Royle says the pressure out on the water can run high , but as soon as they get to Heather 's , they can relax . |
| 3 | Almost as soon as they took to the air , other invertebrates — the spiders — started setting traps for them . |
| 4 | The principal reason is that the Government will be defeated in four or five months ' time and be replaced by a Labour Government who will take the Bill off the statute book as soon as they come to power . |
| 5 | But , outclassed and outnumbered , most will be destroyed as soon as they take to the air ; and if they do not take to the air they do not matter . |
| 6 | But as soon as they move to hearsay they lapse immediately into the purely fantastic , and the stuff of which their fantasies are constructed is lifted direct from mythology . |
| 7 | It was just the officers and the screws , not the boys , the boys was O.K. But it was just I turned as soon as I went in , right , as soon as they wanted to be helpful , right , a copper would go like that , ‘ You no got a fag , son ? ’ |