Example sentences of "[adj] they [vb past] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well I think it was I mean that erm we when you dredge from the Causeway I 'd say near the Harbourmaster 's office and we dredged all the way to Botterman 's Bay just below Pinmill and that Botterman 's Bay was that 's a place where they had and that 's where the big ships used to moor then and they used to get .. be lightened , like all grain goods and that used to be loaded into barges by hand and then when it goes so light they used to the fish with about three thousand grain in 'em and then they used to fill them up in the dock , on the same method . |
| 2 | In April nineteen thirty-nine they went to the quay at Southampton to see them off on a three months ’ visit to the United States and Canada … ’ |
| 3 | Vicissitudes notwithstanding , six members from the North East made sure they got to the Albert Hall in April to applaud the fine performances by the Medau teams . |
| 4 | Harper raised the cudgel to drive away the beggars who swarmed ever more threateningly the closer they got to the Duke and Duchess of Richmond 's rented house . |
| 5 | The trees had thinned out a little , the closer they got to the coast , until they passed by the last of them and stepped on to sand that seemed to stretch endlessly in either direction . |
| 6 | In 1981 they emigrated to the Province of Ontario and became Canadian citizens . |
| 7 | The Court could find no evidence that the parties intended to be liable on the contracts of the International Tin Council ; the obligations they envisaged were those they owed to the Council itself and not to third party creditors . |
| 8 | I think it 's right they talked to the delegates , and they should talk more about it . |
| 9 | Yet , the nearer they approached to the canal , the more spasmodic their exchanges became . |
| 10 | With that they returned to the pebble . |
| 11 | At first they climbed to the heights to look down on Nature or to survey the scene — encouraging the building of ‘ stations ’ such as the Windermere Octagon ; but after Thomas Gray 's Journal of a Tour in the Lakes ( written in 1769 ) artists began to take their views from the valleys . |
| 12 | It was a waste of time , they were so bloodstained they went to the bin anyway . |
| 13 | At two they returned to the schoolroom . |
| 14 | Next they turned to the desk and found a large packet addressed to Mr Utterson . |
| 15 | And then at last they came to the tunnel . |