Example sentences of "they [verb] [verb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | With no high level of education they lay claim instead to ‘ experience ’ — an intimate familiarity with the way things have been done in the past — and ‘ common sense ’ — a rich fund of practical knowledge about the job and its problems which inculcates a sense of the reasonable . |
| 2 | They tend to go always to the top of the |
| 3 | It would appear they carried on trading from a different address some time beyond that date , though exactly when they stopped has yet to be established . |
| 4 | ‘ It depends whether they want to own up to it . ’ |
| 5 | They want to hang on to their fat subsidies and America is entirely right to say that this is unacceptable . |
| 6 | The American circuit is nowadays so tough that its players mostly have no option but to work if they want to hang on to their players ' cards . |
| 7 | Everybody has some books that they want to hang on to that . |
| 8 | They want to go up to the aviary but I I ca n't get I ca n't get this buggy up there up that hill . |
| 9 | They are saying they want to get back to the point where their hard work brought frequent , real , deep satisfaction . |
| 10 | Domestic loans a year ago accounted for only 35% of life-assurance companies ' ¥116 trillion in assets ; they expect to allocate up to 60% in the present financial year . |
| 11 | They were hooting and flapping their great woolly arms as they tried to climb on to a private jetty . |
| 12 | They hope to raise up to £8OO for the Guide Dogs for the Blind Appeal by sponsorship . |
| 13 | Soon the marching changed to slithering as the patrol hit a scree that propelled them forward as if they were on ball-bearings and they came tumbling headlong to the bottom . |
| 14 | As they prepared to fly out to Greece on honeymoon , Kirsty , 20 , said : ‘ We reckon there will be a lot of empty seats on the plane when people hear about this . |
| 15 | He proceeded to remind her verbally as she followed him sheepishly out through the dining-room to a wide archway that led to the terrace , though she did n't need this painful reminder of the way they 'd given in to their wild passion every evening in Seville . |
| 16 | By now , they 'd moved on to Hemingway . |
| 17 | They 'd climbed down to rocky secluded coves and bathed in crystal-clear waters and picnicked in shady pine forests . |
| 18 | Here 's an imag-inary line-up Leeds might be fielding now if they 'd held on to the stars they rejected . |
| 19 | The police explained why they 'd held on to the vehicles which were being kept near Malvern , not at Worcester . |
| 20 | On Nathan 's last morning they 'd driven down to the supermarket together . |
| 21 | Then the excuse for a trip had turned up , and they 'd driven down to Stranraer in a trail of tourist cars , and she 'd played cassettes and talked a little in her soft English voice , while he sat there hardly believing his luck . |
| 22 | As they staggered out of their tepees and another faultless day came smooching in from the Pacific , they would sniff the honeyed air and ask one another what they 'd got up to the previous night . |
| 23 | The dust wagon came up to the warehouse today , the usual they 'd got halfway to emptying the first dustbin in the back |
| 24 | They 'd paid up to £75 a head for coach travel , hotel accommodation and tickets to Europe 's most popular theme park . |
| 25 | They 'd paid up to £75 a head for coach travel , hotel accommodation and tickets to Europe 's most popular theme park . |
| 26 | A series of small works on panel of Chesil Bank , Dorset , share Nicholson 's sensibility to place : very localised , they seem to respond emotionally to the landscape and convey the artist 's pleasure at being there . |
| 27 | The smaller varieties are usually the most successful , and I would particularly recommend the small outdoor varieties , as they seem to take better to pressing than the larger and lumpier types . |
| 28 | They seem to get up to all sorts of things nowadays . |
| 29 | They confirmed to make up to a thousand different messages You know that Chinese shop in Woking ? |
| 30 | They like to see people for a cup of tea , and they like popping round to Karen 's for company . |