Example sentences of "they [was/were] [verb] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was n't until the ninth week that orders finally came through and they were called back to the man-made square . |
| 2 | Last night I opened my eyes when it was dark and feeling a sudden want of air opened the window when to my astonishment I was in time to see Oreste carried past in the arms of an angel and I wept and called out to him but there was no reply and soon they were gone up to the heavens and lost sight of . |
| 3 | ‘ They were togged out to the nines . ’ |
| 4 | They were crossed over to the opposite treatment after a fourth assessment ; patients and investigators then chose blindly the more effective gas for the dyspnoea . |
| 5 | Though the ice-box would continue to work at sea , run off the battery , the microwave could only be used while they were hooked up to the shore power supply . |
| 6 | Then they were whisked off to the museum , while we stayed at the hotel waiting for news of our flight to Nanking . |
| 7 | In evidence earlier this week Lord Aldington , 75 , formerly Brigadier Toby Lowe , who was chief of staff to General Sir Charles Keightley , commander of the British Army 's V Corps in Allied occupied Austria , said he had not known until 1979 what had happened happened to the Yugoslavs when they were handed over to the forces of Marshall Tito . |
| 8 | From there they were handed over to the Americans , who suspected them of being spies and treated them accordingly . |
| 9 | They were kicked senseless and then handed over to the Military Police who locked them up in the roofless regimental prison before they were handed over to the Colonel of the Regiment for interrogation and questioning . |
| 10 | They were allowed out to the ground-floor cloakroom under tactful escort , and had been told they could telephone home from the library . |
| 11 | They were walking on to the long ridge they had been able to see from the cottage window . |
| 12 | They were put on to the French market one at a time with intervals between the sales . |
| 13 | It is a relief to know that the police , at least , were sufficiently attuned to the realities of contemporary social research to drop charges even if a nagging doubt remains as to how or by whom they were set on to the investigators . |
| 14 | and then you go I 'm gon na get that one at the top and they were running up to the top picked it and they , and ran down again |
| 15 | They were working up to the crucial ( as it was then ) question of how and why she had come to identify the first body as Uncle Mossycop 's . |
| 16 | If they were held on to the animal or plant would die . |
| 17 | During the Second World War they were taken down to the dark stone vaults beneath the Half Moon Battery and buried to prevent them falling into enemy hands . |
| 18 | They were brought up to the drawbridge-end . |
| 19 | And then er a and then after they had been in hay ricks for a long time they were brought up to the farm and built into a bigger stack , a bigger thing . |
| 20 | Approximately one hour later , they were brought back to the same room and asked to retell the story again . |
| 21 | And William in there with fists flailing and Preston inevitably drawn in , too , as the fight spread until they were hauled off to the headmaster 's study for retribution ; he was a caning head and it was two strokes on each hand for a fight in the playground , four for the classroom . |
| 22 | And then he went on and he landed up in Seattle the time they were going up to the Klondike Gold Rush . |
| 23 | They were going up to the we call it . |
| 24 | There they were going down to the car . |
| 25 | Neighbours said they were going back to the country . |
| 26 | It did not matter that they were going back to the house of the Scarabae . |