Example sentences of "they [adv] [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The horns , though they properly belong to the brass group , are so frequently used as part of the woodwind ensemble that we feel bound to include them in our consideration of this orchestral group . |
| 2 | ASIANS are being asked to recall how they successfully adapted to British life . |
| 3 | What they can provide , if they successfully attach to money or property which is about to be disposed of , is security for the sum sued for together with interest and expenses . |
| 4 | Most concentrated on the popular view of Best , with Smash Hits one of the few exceptions , as they churlishly explained to their readers : ‘ He was a former footballing hero who used to get raddled a lot . ’ |
| 5 | Industrialists often made that sort of threat , but they rarely seemed to be carried out . |
| 6 | Possibly they are apt to become too ambitious — they rarely succumb to the disease of ‘ fontitis ’ but are only too apt to have bad attacks of ‘ linkitis ’ and ‘ activitis ’ . |
| 7 | Although Montag himself is not involved in the television very much , Mildred is an avid viewer and this affects their relationship as husband and wife to the extent that they rarely talk to each other . |
| 8 | Their heads were the size of flies and moved to and fro as they presumably spoke to one another . |
| 9 | The plastics and polymers which came into use between the wars were , or were claimed to be , the first man-made strong materials to come out of chemical laboratories and they rather went to the heads of the chemists , who supposed , not unnaturally , that these polymers were strong because they had put them together with strong chemical bonds . |
| 10 | Only when employees own part of their company are they justifiably entitled to a share of the profit . |
| 11 | In the second paragraph they expressly referred to the right of an over-subscribed school to adopt reasonable criteria for selection , the criteria had been published in this case , and that they were required to take such criteria into account . |
| 12 | The corollary is that if they eventually return to the UK , their foreign domicile will be retained until it can be ascertained that they intend to remain for an indefinite period . |
| 13 | editor of the Eatanswill Independent , a fire-eater and a Buff ( Whig ) , whose opinions so inflame his rival Pott , editor of the Blue ( Tory ) Eatanswill Gazette , that they eventually come to blows . |
| 14 | In Covent Garden , Luttrell tells us , " the image of the French king was made and drawn in a chariot , and over his head in capital letters was wrott , Lewis the greatest tyrant of fourteen " , which they eventually committed to the flames . |
| 15 | A world-wide protest movement tried to prevent their execution , but they eventually went to the electric chair in 1927 . |
| 16 | Whereas they eventually came to some agreement over the various ‘ courses ’ , they argued vehemently over Elisabeth 's insistence that the recital should both begin and close with Strauss 's Morgen . |
| 17 | Course we was feverishly trying to chip the bricks and things off the horse then how , what had happened because we 'd got two stalls for them , and there was pigs in the one side and the horse in the other one , but of course when we eventually came to it , or they eventually came to the horse , he was dead , been killed standing up there like , you know and er , poor old pigs was all dead as well and as I said , about a hundred fell and two or three would been blown sky high . |
| 18 | The fledgling Twist were a lot more lightweight and bubblegum in style , recruiting Martin Fry 's brother , Jamie , on vocals but they eventually returned to Manchester where they dawdled around in their own faffing style and managed to emerge after all the Mancs fuss was over . |
| 19 | The fledgling Twist were a lot more lightweight and bubblegum in style , recruiting Martin Fry 's brother , Jamie , on vocals but they eventually returned to Manchester where they dawdled around in their own faffing style and managed to emerge after all the Mancs fuss was over . |
| 20 | When they eventually got to Paris , they found that they might just as well have stopped and had a meal in Hanover . |
| 21 | There they eventually led to coalition governments . |
| 22 | So much so in fact that 20 minutes into the second-half they led 16–12 before they eventually succumbed to a Malone scoring spree — gifting Malone two late tries after foolishly attempting to run poor quality ball from deep inside their own 25 . |
| 23 | His troops were left outside that city throughout the entire bitter winter of 1942–1943 , resulting in the loss of a quarter of a million German troops when they eventually surrendered to the Russians on 2nd , February 1943 . |
| 24 | After the parents met they eventually emigrated to Australia , and were married there in 1983 . |
| 25 | They effectively reduce to just one force : the level of effective demand . |
| 26 | They only stick to Union regulations when it suits them . ’ |
| 27 | The world has an image of this country as democratic , the Switzerland of Central America , and when the tourists come , they only go to the beautiful parts , but they do n't go to other parts like Batan , Limón , Los Chiles , the peasant [ communities ] in the southern zone , where people live in difficult situations . |
| 28 | Everybody , unless they 've been had their head in the ground for the last thirteen years , know damn well that they 're not going to get housed off the needs register particularly quickly and they only go to people who are most unable to be housed by any other means are going to bother even to put their names on the needs register . |
| 29 | In any event , they only relate to non-renewal of the contract when it runs out . |
| 30 | In any event , they only relate to non-renewal of the contract when it runs out . |