Example sentences of "they [verb] [pron] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | This often seemed to be taken to excess and getting drunk or ‘ blind drunk ’ was described as common practice , at least within their world as they revealed it to us . |
| 2 | Three times they lowered themselves to the ground in response to commands chanted by the minister of rites and all the time the musicians and singers banged gongs and drums and continued their strangely discordant chanting . |
| 3 | I think that 's an implication of what they were accusing him of , but were they bringing him to trial for . |
| 4 | The other prisoners gasped because they expected him to be shot on the spot . |
| 5 | ‘ They expected me to be a lawyer too . |
| 6 | But then came the bad weather and the frost — they did n't allow for you being knee-deep in snow — they expected you to be where you should be . |
| 7 | ‘ They got him to hospital , but then he had a second attack . |
| 8 | tt They 'd got two handles which was b made it mobile , two wheels , and used it Have four sacks at the end of this threshing engine , hanging on little hooks , and and a bloke there seeing that it got filled alright and it when it was full , they used to run this thing underneath a sack , crank it up by hand , like that , till they got it to the required height , then nestle it on their shoulders , you see there was a There 's a there 's an art in carrying c In carrying coal and there 's an art in carrying corn and there 's an art in carrying beef . |
| 9 | When they got it to the surface , they had seen a writhing mass of jelly , from which two fierce eyes had peered at them . |
| 10 | But one time er I 'd been er I were wounded and I 'd come out of er they bring you to casual clearly stations , thousands got into one I in this ward er tents and best way they could you know and nurses there and all . |
| 11 | But even saying that , if they doubled it to two hundred pounds , it 's a lot of years before we reach four thousand pounds . |
| 12 | Why had n't they given it to her ? |
| 13 | Now they sell themselves to be photographed . |
| 14 | Since the works ( de Kooning apart ) were abstract they lent themselves to diverse interpretations . |
| 15 | ‘ His parents were too poor to keep him so they lent him to a forester . |
| 16 | So you would wait till did did you ken what you were doing , did they explain it to you ? |
| 17 | Boyz N the Hood The neighbourhood in question is South Central Los Angeles , a curious half-ghetto half-Brookside with Uzis , where Tre ( Cuba Gooding Jr ) and Ricky ( Morris Chestnut ) stand at a crossroads : will they make it to college and become middle class or be gunned down in the crossfire between rival gangs ? |
| 18 | The South Koreans are rated because they made it to the last World Cup finals , but personally I will always think of the North Koreans in ‘ 66 . |
| 19 | But they made it to the boat , which sailed in the early hours of 1 September , two days before war was declared . |
| 20 | They made it to the winning post fairly creditably . |
| 21 | They made it to the end of the road in Bombay where all the cars had to be steam cleaned inside and out for the last leg of the journey . |
| 22 | And here 's how they made it to the semi-finals ; not an easy run , Wakefield was their last step . |
| 23 | He says they asked her to the disco . |
| 24 | I met the guys , loved the songs and they asked me to be their agent . |
| 25 | Despite taking home around half his £300-a-week mining wage , Martin said : ‘ I would n't go back to Silverhill now if they asked me to . |
| 26 | I mean I could choose not to do an album , but when they asked me to an album that was exciting to say yes . |
| 27 | Instead of transferring the ball from defence to attack with the trajectory of a mortar shell , they passed it to feet , and were even allowed to run with it . |
| 28 | I gave my orders and they led me to a private room and brought me some writing paper and a pen . |
| 29 | Many aspects of his analysis were similar to those advanced by Blauner , but they led him to an opposite conclusion . |
| 30 | Now those were the issues that were leading us sir had left us to make an objection to this structure plan that we thought erm the detailed papers on it were sent to the county in our in our objections , they led us to by a series of calculations to come to the view that around about a hundred hectares would be more appropriate for Harrogate , this is in addition to its Greater York supplement , erm than what is now settled upon which is sixty hectares . |