Example sentences of "[noun sg] they [vb past] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the far side they came to the Sierra de Quareca , hills which , though not particularly high , did give the party — many of them clad in heavy metal cuirasses and leg-armour — some relief from the steamy , insect-ridden heat of the lowlands . |
| 2 | In the winter they kept to the roads or , if the earth were hard with frost , they might play on Thrush Green with a bat and ball in view of Paul 's home . |
| 3 | He asked his Chairman for a private chat they retired to the gents and Gould who had no contract said he was finished . |
| 4 | It was too late to do any worthwhile damage and with some regret they came to the conclusion that it was best not to place any bombs . |
| 5 | This galvanised the National Agent , R. T. Windle , into making plans for an individual membership campaign early in 1944 ; and it led to the executive summoning a conference of trade union officers so as to encourage them to contribute to a general election fund and to increase the proportion of their contracting-in membership — which was much less than half the total membership they reported to the Trades Union Congress . |
| 6 | For a period they went to the cinema together , two or three times a week , afterwards eating at the Venezia in Great Chapel Street , also drinking in the Black Horse , or the Highlander ( now called the Nellie Dean ) or at the French ( originally known as the York Minster but renamed after its association during the war with the Free French ) . |
| 7 | At the end of the war they returned to the Villa dell'Ombrellino where , 11 September 1947 , at the age of seventy-nine , Alice died . |
| 8 | Dubrovlag , that was the name they offered to the pestilence of fences and huts in Mordovia . |
| 9 | The following day they travelled to the Army 's training ground at Pirbright in Surrey . |
| 10 | They merely became more discerning in the façade they showed to the public . |
| 11 | Last week they went to the Court of Session in an unsuccessful attempt to have Thursday 's meeting blocked . |
| 12 | While the councillors felt it appropriate that the Church Hall should be put to some use they objected to the proposal for a function room and made the following points : |
| 13 | At the cab rank they went to the shelter , where drivers could while away the night hours in warmth and obtain food . |
| 14 | Rank on rank they stretched to the horizon , their reflections shimmering towards us on a blue mirror . |
| 15 | Hardly , one would think , since such occurrences were by no means rare at this period , and in any case they came to the rescue in every possible way . |
| 16 | On receiving the petition demanding Outram 's resignation they stuck to the principle of laissez-faire . |
| 17 | By tacit , mutual understanding they returned to the school separately . |
| 18 | After the World Cup they rose to the occasion and agreed on proposals which , when adopted next year , will fundamentally change the structure of the game . |
| 19 | However , most respondents who were not themselves sole practitioners stopped well short of endorsing this argument although they were often inclined to the view that in choosing to practice in this way , sole principals should accept that the greater risk they represented to the profession should be reflected in increased contributions on their part to the Compensation and Indemnity Funds . |
| 20 | George Cripps 's son wrote to the Yorkshire Post in October 1979 : ‘ The remarks of Mr J. McKenna make me smile when I remember some of the things which my father told me about the machinations by various members of the then Football League , which have certainly led me to believe that they were not so simon pure as the image they presented to the public . ’ |
| 21 | It was an approach not of the land-users themselves but of their rulers , and therefore it is necessary to discuss briefly what the colonial rulers ' political and economic interests were , and in what way they related to the people of colonised areas and to the natural resources they found there . |
| 22 | Before all these developments it was widely accepted that knowledge was something that was ‘ transmitted by words and absorbed by words ’ , and suddenly when faced with ‘ establishing the criteria for the arts as higher education subjects … we were forced to look at these subjects … and at what way they contributed to the role of higher education … |
| 23 | They may have acquired this caution by observational learning — watching other monkeys trying to eat these insects and seeing the way they reacted to the prey 's ‘ chemical warfare ’ — or they may have evolved an inborn reaction towards bright patterns , enabling them to avoid such species from birth without any learning process , or they may have learned caution the hard way , by personal experience . |
| 24 | The Black Prince supposedly granted the ferry rights in 1364 to his porter William Lenche who had lost an eye at Poitiers and later that century they passed to the borough , which held them until the opening of the Tamar Bridge . |
| 25 | World War I transformed Western society , not least in its emancipation of women , largely because of the enormous contribution they made to the war effort . |
| 26 | He was obviously interested in the past history of the house , and , by the time they returned to the dance-floor , all her irrational fears and instinctive wariness of the tall dark man by her side had receded into the very back of her mind . |
| 27 | She would go with Julius — and by the time they returned to the house she would know if they were going to part as friends or enemies . |
| 28 | By the time they returned to the table for the Christmas pudding John Harbour had moved and there was nowhere for her to sit except beside O'Hara . |
| 29 | The last time they went to the rock , everything began the same way as usual . |
| 30 | He says they 're not real gipsies and that last time they came to the district they caused a lot of damage to crops and stole several turkeys . ’ |