Example sentences of "they [vb past] [pron] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All of them made it back to the rendezvous where they also met up with Zirnheld 's group who had managed to account for eleven aircraft . |
| 2 | But others are less impressive and I wonder how and why they made it through to the final selection . |
| 3 | By the time they made it back to the house she no longer knew whether she was as fine as she had insisted on telling him . |
| 4 | The next day they moved me up to the second floor to work with Mr Perkins , a weird old guy who smelt of dogs and cleaned his ears out with the lid from his ballpoint pen . |
| 5 | It seemed like a minor miracle when she found herself seated within touching distance of the small group of musicians , until she realised that Rune was well-known here , not only by the management but , as the current number drew to a triumphant close , to the players as well , as they drew him on to the low rostrum and surrounded him with much back-slapping and laughter . |
| 6 | they sent it back , I think , I thought the twelve was , was quite good actually , I thought the twelve when they went up at twelve , but then when they changed it back to the junior and infants it was the elev , the eleven and it was a bit , I think it , you know eleven might be perhaps too young , I think twelve is a reasonable |
| 7 | They drove me back to the Ministry , where I was questioned by an officer I 'd never seen before , a colonel . |
| 8 | Sometimes on their fronts , sometimes on their backs , sometimes half standing , they threw themselves down to the damp coils below . |
| 9 | In fact , they whisked me off to the Nanking Workers ' Hospital , where I stayed in ‘ solitary confinement ’ until this afternoon . |
| 10 | They brought them back to the motel . |
| 11 | ‘ They took them back to the barracks in the Bazaar . |
| 12 | They took me down to the labour room . |
| 13 | They took me down to the labour ward and offered me a sedative to help me sleep . |
| 14 | ‘ Anyway , ’ he said , in a conversational tone , ‘ then they took me down to the morgue . ’ |
| 15 | Joe recalls : ‘ When it was all over they took me back to the room , chained me up , and that was the very last I ever heard of it . |
| 16 | The Men came for me where I huddled in the marram grass and they took me back to the low cage . |
| 17 | Lizzy was so far gone by this time that she just smiled at them as they took her out to the meat wagon . |
| 18 | They let us see him for a couple of minutes , and then they took us back to the prison . |
| 19 | ‘ They took it over to the rose-bed under her window and the marks corresponded . |
| 20 | So everything that would hold water was put on the stove and er he did and then it they took it out to the |
| 21 | They took it down to the burning gha where two rivers meet in a rolling pool of green and white , and where at night the restless spirits of the dead wall to the roar of the crashing waters . |
| 22 | They sent one down to the hospital did n't they ? |
| 23 | Cris tried to help , of course , but as soon as the ambulances came they sent him off to the local hospital , and that 's where he is now . |
| 24 | TV aerials : one of the drama groups did a sketch about James Logie Baird who invented the television , and the man who lodged in the room next door to him kept on seeing pictures flashing on his wall and they dragged him off to the lunatic asylum 'cos they thought he was seeing things , hallucinating . |
| 25 | The flowers that I had still been clutching when they carried me back to the house had been prised from my fingers and left in a plastic bag on top of the fridge . |
| 26 | Then they backed it up to the front door and they all charged inside . ’ |
| 27 | They held her up to the window , and she was crying and banging on the glass as we drove away . ’ |
| 28 | Later on , they loaded her on to the hand-cart and trundled her along to Bartholomew Close . ’ |
| 29 | When I had the bairn , they wanted us back to the prison the day after , but I was haemorrhaging and the doctor says , ‘ There 's no way she can go back now . |
| 30 | One of them hurled her on to the bed and snarled for her to shut up . |