Example sentences of "to [noun] they [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to Perdita they appeared curiously passive , sitting and waiting for some man to make them unhappy . |
| 2 | As the ruminants then set to work they eat down to the lower , leafier parts of the vegetation . |
| 3 | There are some gone back to work they have n't got all that heavy obligations but there are lads on the line which have got very heavy complications and children and they have stuck it out you know . |
| 4 | When a circus comes to town they send in the stars … so who better than Desert Orchid to lead the festival parade into Cheltenham … |
| 5 | Whereas Belial Base had been built on the outer surface of a solid moon , Moloch Base was inside a hollow one ; a miracle of planetary engineering which , after five years , still had Bannen and his team groping in the dark for answers to questions they did n't even know how to formulate . |
| 6 | We might have expected that people would give particularly low ratings to sources they described as biased but there was little evidence of any such reaction . |
| 7 | When they return to sources they do so in an increasingly normal , quietly acceptable manner that brings a more domestic way of ending . |
| 8 | but they leave nothing to chance they 've even brought their own satellite to plot the weather … |
| 9 | Which they wish to God they 'd never got into . |
| 10 | When I went to Liberia they freaked out , I was an American ; what was I doing there ? |
| 11 | Tom Curran , deputy director of Wirral social services department , said : ‘ If , in the first place , we had said to people they did not meet the criteria and did not put their names on the waiting list , we would be in less trouble . ’ |
| 12 | Naturally we went to share our sandwiches with the robins , which were starving , but they were so unused to people they did n't seem to know what bread was . |
| 13 | But as soon as they move to hearsay they lapse immediately into the purely fantastic , and the stuff of which their fantasies are constructed is lifted direct from mythology . |
| 14 | He was arrogant enough to expect them to dance to music they had never heard . |
| 15 | ‘ I 've been accused of wanting to send people 60 miles down the road to hospitals they do n't want to go to … of doctors not having enough money to pay for drugs … of going to close down vital wards … |
| 16 | In areas where women have similar opportunities to men they appear as likely to break laws . |
| 17 | Again , according to rumour they step out to hitch rides to Paradise . |
| 18 | 88open has decided to offer its system and application compatibility test suites — ITS/88 , AVS/88 and ACT/88 — to industry consortia and companies : although to date they have only been available for Motorola Inc 88000 RISC based systems , interested parties would presumably customise the sets for other architectures . |
| 19 | You know , and I mean where he used to go to school they did n't teach them them till they were ten ! |
| 20 | And er then of course when I got better It hit me all on the head and that well Then er when I went back to school they found out as I could n't see the board properly . |
| 21 | By the time Maggie had to go back to London they had never felt closer in warmth , even happiness . |
| 22 | Relative to boys they achieve highly in English and modern languages , yet … the curriculum in these areas is no less biased in favour of males . |
| 23 | Gerry Skelton , Borders district secretary of the TGWU , said that when the benefits agencies had mistakenly paid out extra money to claimants they had not been prepared to wait four years for the cash to be handed back . |
| 24 | Since the Conservatives came to power they have considerably weakened local government and greater centralisation has been the consequence . |
| 25 | In trying to bring cattle thieves to justice they faced not only the usual difficulties but a certain amount of popular tolerance of the crime . |
| 26 | Kalchu and Chola were both at home and from time to time they looked down , both repelled and fascinated . |
| 27 | I suppose cos it 's coming to Christmas they do n't bother . |