Example sentences of "they [vb past] [adv] [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Early in the eighteenth century they became more firmly subjected to Dzhungaria . |
| 2 | They did not yet belong to our world and they certainly belonged to no other . |
| 3 | Each contributed much , but they did not often speak to each other , and indeed almost literally could not speak to each other . |
| 4 | They did not really want to be mutineers , but they were afraid of Tom Smith . |
| 5 | They went out from us but they did not really belong to us , for if they had belonged to us they would have remained with us but their going showed that none of them belong to us . |
| 6 | There were bed-baths and nurses — nurses who if they did n't yet seem to be bursting out of their brassieres , were certainly stretching their blouses to danger point . |
| 7 | ‘ They did n't even speak to me , ’ he said . |
| 8 | Had they all in fact something to escape from , perhaps something they did n't even acknowledge to themselves ? |
| 9 | They did n't even need to be shown how high you could climb , how bravely you could wrestle . |
| 10 | They did n't usually speak to her , only about her . |
| 11 | But they did n't say they did n't ever want to ever drive a car again . |
| 12 | Even when the new models were being produced they did n't always get to the dealers : a dispute at Toleman , which distributes Fords , caused vast stockpiles . |
| 13 | When I was working at British Airways we used to do a lot of technical training and erm it was sort of on er airline regulation , stuff like that and you could always tell the activists cos they did n't really want to all they wanted to do was to get on the computers and actually trying out things out themselves , they piece of furniture the activists do n't want to read the instructions , they want to start putting it together and then they 'd learn from actually putting it together rather than them reading the instructions and regulation training you could always tell the activist cos they sort of always like chopping every bit , they just want to they just want to get on the computers and start inputting numbers and they 'll actually learn , they , they prefer to do that and then somebody can come round and help them out when they get into trouble rather than some of the other which perhaps like to more up front and that 's the activist . |
| 14 | It was n't that she had n't tried to form relationships , but somehow they had just never amounted to anything significant . |
| 15 | They had long ago come to terms with that sorrow . |