Example sentences of "[prep] they [verb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It marked them off from other men and made it difficult for them to settle down to the dull conformity of civilian existence after the war . |
| 2 | The most usual course of action for disappointed applicants will be for them to write back to the Com |
| 3 | None of the Indian girls complain , because they are afraid of being beaten up , so none of them go up to the headmaster and complain . |
| 4 | The company participates in nearly a score of such ventures , some of them dating back to the 1930s . |
| 5 | Nkrumah dealt with the rebels by expelling 81 CPP members ; many of them drifted over to the NPP . |
| 6 | The three of them walked back to the village . |
| 7 | I spent a little while there and enjoyed a helicopter trip for the very first time , although not without considerable trepidation having once or twice seen pictures of them whizzing down to the ground in pieces . |
| 8 | Mind , she did n't go out this afternoon cos they went , some of them went up to the British Legion Club this afternoon . |
| 9 | ‘ A lot of them look up to the likes of Johnny Marr and say : ‘ That 's what I want to sound like ! ’ |
| 10 | They were beings like Miach , a crowd of them walking down to the shore from the forest . |
| 11 | And somehow , he could n't imagine either of them coming around to the house for some beers and a pizza and a John Wayne movie on the video . |
| 12 | Dentdale is superb walking country : the high ridge walks along Rise Hill and Barbon Fell are amongst the best in the Dales , while lower down , the Dales Way long-distance path follows the river for much of its length into Sedbergh , and some of the wooded gills like Flinter Gill , which arc a typical feature of Dentdale , have footpaths along them leading on to the fells or on to the old packhorse routes . |