Example sentences of "they [verb] [adv] [vb pp] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although many of the great scientists and philosophers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century were Christians , they became increasingly attached to the supremacy of reason . |
| 2 | They gathered themselves and began to walk , their steps light though at first a little unsure , until they became more used to the uneven pace . |
| 3 | There were the papers produced by the political groups , but they seemed fatally restricted to the obsessions of other times , and to backbiting amongst themselves . |
| 4 | Cook 's skipped it , and the others said they 'd already talked to you . ’ |
| 5 | They 'd all gone to bed the night before when I 'd returned from a last noggin with Harry . |
| 6 | K. R. Whenever they had a raid on the Chinese gambling , they took them all in the cells and they all sent out for Chinese meals , and when they 'd all gone to the Main Bridewell in the middle of the night — ‘ 125 , scrub out ! ’ — and I had to take my tunic off and scrub out after the Chinese had been . |
| 7 | She 'd been very happy that Sunday , 13 years ago , when they 'd all gone to Adam 's for lunch . |
| 8 | I kept reminding myself of how much trouble they 'd all gone to . ’ |
| 9 | If they 'd really wanted to . |
| 10 | The group is encouraged to bring out everything , including things they 'd never admitted to themselves before , then other members provide support . |
| 11 | ‘ They seem more committed to the club than the county which is the way they want it but I have my own opinion on that , ’ said the highly respected Jones . |
| 12 | Rather like pathological ‘ organisation men ’ , they seem so addicted to bureaucracy that they ca n't get enough of it in their day jobs . |
| 13 | Somebody like Meiselas is like that , Gilles Peress ; they do n't work on a story unless they get emotionally connected to it — why bother ? — to them . |
| 14 | Moreover , they become mentally attuned to American tactical doctrines , which are often devised to sell US equipments to the Western Alliance . |
| 15 | Always sleep by the guns , he said , and never let the men dig bolt holes , lest they become too attached to them when the bombs begin to fall . |
| 16 | Only a small proportion , however , ( 12 per cent ) of Oxfordshire teachers say they felt personally threatened to any great extent by the requirement to undertake their review . |
| 17 | It seems to me entirely up to him , if he so wished , and his group , if they felt there needed to be more money spent on highways structural maintenance to have moved other bids up to priority order when discussing the capital budget . |
| 18 | They 've also issued to me the appropriate er protective equipment as well and so that er they do n't you know , so I 'll assume that is on the way . |
| 19 | They 've just turned to the zone game after generations of the sweeper system . |
| 20 | Er , that they 've either got to , well they 've preferably got to be bought rather than , just |
| 21 | They 've already written to the Secretary of State and said dear Secretary of State we 're going to send this to you because it is a departure but please Secretary of State do not call it in do not exercise your powers . |
| 22 | dear oh dear , and she said to me well they can get these crook locks , they 've only got to a , they 've only got to bend the steering wheel , I said will |
| 23 | No , a Sierra , a Sierra the whole lot comes up , yes , but they 've now changed to a Sapphire and the Sapphire is just the boot , yeah ? |
| 24 | Er , that they 've either got to , well they 've preferably got to be bought rather than , just |
| 25 | To tell you the truth Brenda , I 'm very sorry for her because I think that she and Ned have made a really a quite ferocious mess of their life , they 've never intended to be slaving away to be doing kitchen fitting , he wanted to do wood sculpture that was he 's idea in |
| 26 | In these hard and unforgiving times , some people have struggled as they 've never had to before . |
| 27 | They 've really got to grips with their environmental problems , facing them squarely , with common purpose . |
| 28 | ‘ They 've obviously got to be able to speak to people at all levels , ’ said a supervisor of his field men . |
| 29 | So they 've actually got to be making something that 's that can be sold or can be sold in the near future if they . |
| 30 | Okay , definition of disability , what they 've actually got to be , to be able to claim is unable to perform any part of their normal occupation . |