Example sentences of "[prep] [adv] they [vb past] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | There are different versions of how they got to Japan , but eventually they were accepted as useful allies and were sent back to recruit more potential fighters in Rangoon . |
| 2 | This poses the interesting question of how they got to Machynlleth in the first place . |
| 3 | This week art experts have been valuing ‘ old master ’ paintings bought by the couple and left behind when they fled to America . |
| 4 | From there they sailed to America , their ships competing for trade with those from Bristol and Liverpool ( see map C ( ii ) on page 37 ) . |
| 5 | From there they proceeded to the Jebel mountains and made camp in a pleasant area of trees and plentiful water . |
| 6 | From there they passed to a polishing room , and thence to what was known as No 3 position , where they were fitted to the actual coach . |
| 7 | From there they rode to Dunvegan , either more or less as the crow flies by a drovers ' trail , or coming down from Greshornish to join what is now the A850 , at a point about half-way between Portree and their destination , Dunvegan Castle . |
| 8 | Well all we had was Broadfield School and that 's where my boys had to go to Broadfield , they went into Broadfield School and erm , they all got on alright you know , they got on well there and then from there they went to when the new school was built they went to Netteswell school you see , but two of my sons are electricians and unfortunately the eldest one , one of the electricians I could n't put him to apprentice because I could n't afford it cos I had a hard to struggle to bring them up you know in those days , we did n't get erm any family allowance or anything those days , and erm , so therefore he could n't go , but he sort of got on and got his own factory , but my other son who 's an electrician , one of the twins he 's erm , he 's got his City and Guilds he passed , he went , he was able to go to the school when the new schools were built you see , when Netteswell school was built he was able to go to night school and er learn all you see , then there was the one at Burnt Mill was n't there , down the bottom ? |
| 9 | From there they moved to Pannonia , where they built a city called Sicambria . |
| 10 | From there they moved to Whitby where Mrs Chance became secretary to the entertainments manager and Mr Chance became civil defence officer . |
| 11 | The legates were first received by Archbishop Jaenberht at Canterbury , from whence they journeyed to the court of Offa , who received them most favourably , and Offa , together with Cynewulf , king of the West Saxons , came together in a council where papal letters directing attention to the need for reform in the Anglo-Saxon Church were consulted and promises of reform made . |
| 12 | In 1914 an offer from Australia took Lewis and his trainer , Alec ‘ Zalig ’ Goodman , to Sydney and five matches in three months , from where they sailed to the USA on business which lasted five years . |
| 13 | The Bourbon group derive from a cross between two Chinese species , but took the name from the Ile de Bourbon , later renamed Reunion Island , in the Indian Ocean , from where they came to Europe in 1817 . |
| 14 | They were eventually escorted to the airport from where they returned to Bangkok . |
| 15 | There is almost a tinge of predestination in footballers ' reflections on how they came to sport in the first place . |
| 16 | People who were questioned as to why they listened to him during the war very often said they found him ‘ good for a laugh ’ . |
| 17 | It was important to find out exactly where they were , so that they could get back to where they wanted to be . |
| 18 | Or at least they seemed to . |