Example sentences of "they [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although the principal activity of many of the nobles in Edward III 's reign was war , their fundamental concern was always their inheritance , the lands and rights which formed the basis of their wealth and power and which they expected to hand on to their heirs . |
| 2 | Well they got to court without a solicitor cos they were n't entitled to Legal Aid , and now you see that 's another thing , they 're both out of work , they were n't entitled to any Legal Aid , so they had to go on their own to court |
| 3 | This was all very well and most wooden ships were watertight in harbour but , without exception , they all leaked when they got to sea . |
| 4 | They got to bed at ten to seven , they were shattered . |
| 5 | Indefatigably the Lionisers prowled their way along Albion Street and surged up the narrow Fort Road , but this time they stopped before they got to Fort House . |
| 6 | By the time they got to town , most of the heavy stuff should be over . |
| 7 | quite easy , well it was comparatively easy , only trouble was of course that erm at night erm one had to go right down from County Hall to Barrett Corner to get on the bus because they were so full by the time they got to County Hall and erm so I used to walk down there with erm a chap from the Education Department , who was in the Works and Stores , a chap and erm , he was quite helpful . |
| 8 | When they got to Bridge they , if they had n't got a permit they they had to go back , the pickets 'd be there . |
| 9 | Yes , I just wondered if they could n't sort of do a , a deal , you know to get them by air , the only thing about it is if they got to sort of |
| 10 | ‘ The delays involved were altogether unacceptable in my view and I had no doubt that they amounted to maladministration . ’ |
| 11 | Part of our role as mathematics educators is to ensure that children know that the skills and background they bring to school are valued . |
| 12 | By demonstrating why workers , soldiers and a minority of peasants came to support the Bolshevik party in 1917 they bring to light the limitations of the party 's popular mandate , and the speed with which that mandate was forfeited . |
| 13 | In their defensive exchanges , they ceased to value what had first so attracted them to each other . |
| 14 | How exactly do they relate to grammar and vocabulary ? |
| 15 | Did they di do you think they I was going to say enjoy there but I do I do n't think that 'd be the right word , but d did they like or did they prefer to work piece work or was it something that they loathed or I mean there was more money to be made at it was n't there ? |
| 16 | Wayne Thomas , 19 , appeared before magistrates on four occasions — but each time they agreed to defence applications to allow him bail . |
| 17 | What a contribution they made to winter fogs , thought Joe . |
| 18 | Facts about woman 's access to contraception and the annual death toll of illegal abortion ; about the number of children they want and the number they lose to malnutrition and disease ; facts about rape , incest and infibulation . |
| 19 | They resorted to terror and adventurism , for which there was no justification now that a powerful Social Democratic movement had taken shape , and they failed to acknowledge the leadership that must be exercised by the proletariat over the peasantry and the democratic movement as a whole . |
| 20 | His quarrel with the TUC was about the narrow vision that Millar thought they applied to education , confining themselves to practical day-to-day union matters and ignoring socialist principles . |
| 21 | Grimm spelled out these principles as they applied to gender . |
| 22 | well perhaps they applied to university as well |
| 23 | North Down were always in control at Magheramason , with captain Ian Carser hitting 55 and Robin Haire 48 as they timed to perfection their reply to Bready 's 165 for 8 . |
| 24 | In the end , Lamb 's men had 10 overs in hand as they cruised to success . |
| 25 | Forming the intention to adopt beliefs only when they correspond to reality postpones the settlement of belief : we are forced to adopt rules which , while they are guaranteed to reveal reality to us in the long run , are not guaranteed to do so in the short run . |
| 26 | They live mainly on berries and fruit , so they tend to home in on people 's gardens . |
| 27 | But he said when you start paying money just into a building society and then lump sum this and lump sum that they tend to sort of then oh you know , what is actually going on here and they tend to start looking about a bit more . |
| 28 | Third , while social policies do not have , except in some very marginal ways , an impact on relations with other states , it is important not to lose sight of the contribution they make to integration and harmony within the nation . |
| 29 | Instead of taking attitudes as relatively straightforward guides to behaviour and expressed as opinions , they sought to measure attitudes more as dispositional and rooted deeper in the personality . |
| 30 | An HP spokesman claimed the Sun program had ‘ a million holes ’ and was based on ‘ half truths , ’ pointing out that Sun was offering no migration tools or interoperability whereas HP is giving Apollo users the same look and feel and middleware when they shift to HP boxes . |