Example sentences of "they have [verb] [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Here 's an imag-inary line-up Leeds might be fielding now if they 'd held on to the stars they rejected . |
| 2 | The police explained why they 'd held on to the vehicles which were being kept near Malvern , not at Worcester . |
| 3 | On Nathan 's last morning they 'd driven down to the supermarket together . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They 've run over to the sheep ! |
| 6 | Last year of course they did superbly , they beat Southend who were then in the fourth division , and look what 's happened to them , they 've gone up to the third division . |
| 7 | In fact , they 've gone right to the top . |
| 8 | It is er as I see it they 've gone back to the drawing board with where the bands are actually how it 's banded . |
| 9 | That 's the bit they 've knocked down to the put the Smiths and that , the other side of it , this bit . |
| 10 | that are grumbling cos they 've come down , but really they 've come down to the same level as |
| 11 | After they had deposited their bags at the hotel , itself ramshackle and run-down , they had gone on to the hospital . |
| 12 | Galerie de la Scala fared so well with a mixture of French , North European and Italian drawings , priced at FFr 20,000–350,000 , not always by famous names but always in exquisite taste , that they had to go back to the gallery for more . |
| 13 | ‘ The Welsh name for the bridge over there , ’ said Beuno , gesturing , ‘ means ‘ the place where the milk was spilt ’ because one year the nuns ' cow went dry and they had to go down to the village to beg for some , and they got this far and then one of them dropped it . ’ |
| 14 | The proposed change would have prevented the older couple from being evicted unless they had consented either to the mortgage or the later sale . |
| 15 | The Fontanellatesi , like all Italians , felt happy ; happy that they had stood up to the Fascists , and happy that they had helped the escaped prisoners . |
| 16 | Only the Jews and the Iranians stood up to the Romans , as they had stood up to the Seleucids . |
| 17 | They had reacted badly to the amount of time she was forced to spend on organising the first meeting . |
| 18 | They had added substantially to the availability of drugs in the streets of Britain . |
| 19 | They had come up to the Buraimi for the men to look for better opportunities . |
| 20 | But she soon realised that they had come down to the manor only as a duty ( perish the word ! ) and courtesy to her , and regarded the house as a white elephant , being too far away and too cold for weekend breaks . |
| 21 | The information they had was sketchy , to say the least , but they had responded immediately to the appeal of Retford 's station sergeant . |
| 22 | German universities were under the control of the state bureaucracy , which appointed the professors , but they had responded quickly to the specialization of the period with the creation of new chairs . |
| 23 | When they had walked back to the car , his father had offered him one of the fish . |
| 24 | However , local authorities have had a duty , since 1968 , to provide adequate sites for gipsies normally resorting to their area and , where they have done so to the satisfaction of my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State for the Environment , they have criminal powers to remove illegal campers . |
| 25 | Football since the 1950s has come to provide a kind of surrogate community for the young ; the club defines their identity and the ‘ end ’ is their territory , even if they have moved out to the high-rise blocks miles away . |
| 26 | They have cottoned on to the fact that the dealers come up with a different brand name every week . |
| 27 | They have trooped along to the lobby room to glean information from the Prime Minister 's press Secretary , Mr Bernard Ingham . |
| 28 | When they reach an obstacle , such as the sharks , they have to go back to the previous question . |
| 29 | Callers sometimes misdial and think they have got through to the local barracks or Lingfield garage . |
| 30 | Labour Members say that they want to have a debate , yet because they have been discomfited in other debates they have come in to the Chamber to start shouting and jeering . |