Example sentences of "they [vb past] to [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the end of the first teaching practice I asked the teacher tutors ( who had all had experience of the previous system ) to make any comments they cared to about the new set-up . |
| 2 | They should make a bit more profit than they used to with the old , oversized pans they made from bigger oil cans . |
| 3 | I ai n't one of them niggers to be sold like they used to at the Trow . ’ |
| 4 | The latter had a less favourable nickname for the SAS , whom they referred to as the ‘ Parashites ’ for a while . |
| 5 | Manton contained Palmer and they closed to within a shot with two ends left for play . |
| 6 | One effect of this new competition for places locally is that the students who go to England or Scotland no longer automatically represent the elite they tended to in the 1970s and 1980s . |