Example sentences of "to a [noun sg] [conj] they [vb past] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | A police spokesman said : ‘ The woman and a colleague , recently joined and under instruction , were answering a call to a burglary when they came across the incident involving a taxi driver and his fare . |
| 2 | Yeah well I was talking , I was talking to a friend and they said that , you know , there 's some homophobic attacks and some of them just happen to occur because people are walking in a gay area |
| 3 | And I instanced Bob Geldof as someone whose commitment to the problem of hunger had certainly got things done , and inspired millions of people to see ( even if only transiently ) that they could make a contribution to a problem that they had previously held in their minds , albeit not very consciously , as ‘ not mine ’ and ‘ hopeless ’ . |
| 4 | Santa Clause 's reindeer brought an entire city centre to a standstill when they arrived to give children a treat before Christmas . |
| 5 | Communications between them and Rough Trade came to a standstill as they prepared to undertake a short Scottish tour , and from this odd situation a strange story came to light . |
| 6 | From September 1974 the Diploma would become a BA with Honours , and students on existing courses or with a DipAD awarded between 1966 and 1974 could convert it to a BA if they wished . |
| 7 | It was like Coalite , er when we first came here , oh yes it was , yes , but we have electric fires of course as well to , what we did because we were both out working all the time , we had electric fires and I think my husband , husband had them allied to a timeswitch and they came on before we came in , an hour or so , before we came in this room and in that room |
| 8 | I spoke to many of the soldiers , they were of the 72nd Highland , and they answered to a man that they detested the business . |
| 9 | It takes longer to saturate large rods with deuterium than to saturate the smaller ones ; the latter took up to a fortnight and they estimated that the largest rods could take up to a year . |
| 10 | Whereas no one knew what humans would do to a nome if they caught one … |
| 11 | However , he would be a perfect recruit for Arsenal , whose season has ground to a halt since they led the Premier League in early November . |
| 12 | The glacier ends in a cliff that calves small icebergs that head seaward , grind to a halt when they hit the sand base of the river and dissolve in tears at the indignity of it all . |
| 13 | The limousine was finally slowing to a halt and they scrambled for their shoes . |
| 14 | I went to a meeting and they asked if I would try to get them contacts from the West , ’ said Mrs Charlton . |
| 15 | This was a welcome change from the approach of the House of Lords majority in Home Office v Harman , decided a few years earlier , which held that a solicitor committed contempt by showing the other side 's private documents to a journalist after they had been read out in open court . |
| 16 | ‘ We tried to take Grand Met to a tribunal but they refused . |
| 17 | They dropped their voices to a whisper when they saw me but I 'd seen them taking nips from a bottle of gin . |
| 18 | Herbert invited the Wrights to a meal and they became friends . |
| 19 | Co-operating with him might lead to a sell-out before they had even started . |
| 20 | How disappointed would you be if you went to a game and they made you watch a video instead of the real thing ? |
| 21 | How disappointed would you be if you went to a game and they made you watch a video instead of the real thing ? |
| 22 | They took the car to a garage and they took Karen 's body to a hospital . |
| 23 | I ordered a double portion of chicken and a Seven-Up and went to a table while they went back to the late movie on Channel 4 on a portable television . |
| 24 | Leek Town 1 Southport 0 : The Sandgrounders ' 20 match unbeaten run came to an end as they failed to score in the HFS League for the first time this season . |
| 25 | In the opinion of the deputy judge the operation of that Part , concerned as it was with giving the authorities powers to secure compliance with or detection of evasion of the Act , came to an end when they had secured sufficient evidence to justify a charge . |
| 26 | He impressed Meredith Jones as he impressed Philip Burton — both to an extent that they had never been impressed before , driving them to help him help himself . |
| 27 | Nevertheless , it seems fair to say that by the 1530s social grievances were again being voiced to an extent that they had not been in the previous century . |