Example sentences of "[adj] and [vb past] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was warm and sprang to life immediately . |
| 2 | Hatch resigned his appointment in 1892 and went to work as a mining engineer in Johannesburg . |
| 3 | Norm would sit watching TV , she would glance up at it and back at her book , but he tired early and went to bed . |
| 4 | Father and son , he reported , kissed each other as usual and went to sleep in their separate bivouacs . |
| 5 | I conceded to that and went to university , and of course your whole life changes then . |
| 6 | " So I pretended to be ill and went to bed . |
| 7 | Many years ago , supermarket bread acquired a reputation which has proved almost impossible to shake off ; any colour you like as long as it is white , and probably thin sliced and steamed to boot . |
| 8 | Peckham graduated from Cambridge in 1960 and went to University College Hospital in London , where he worked with Gwen Hilton . |
| 9 | In 1834 , the pseudonymous Paul Pry observed of Coleman , now ‘ stricken with years ’ , that ‘ Time has laid his temples bare And turned to white his once dark hair . ’ |
| 10 | Largely as a result of machinations and pressure by the king of France , the Order of Knights Templar was subjected to papal scrutiny in 1308 and condemned to dissolution in 1312 . |
| 11 | He left the Empress Works in 1911 and went to work for Norman Crossland , as mechanic in charge . |
| 12 | A recent offender makes its intentions of arousing morbid curiosity perfectly clear on its front cover , proclaiming ‘ 30,000 people burned , boiled and suffocated to death ’ , ‘ A whole thriving city levelled to the ground in seconds ’ , and ‘ The world best-selling account of one day when the earth exploded ’ . |
| 13 | Seeing there are three of you , it would make sense if I made a fourth and helped to leg . ’ |
| 14 | His companion was the same man grown older and turned to stone . |
| 15 | This is a means whereby analogue signals like guitar , vocals etc. can be converted to digital and inputted to computer storage , to be sequenced and looped or whatever digital hocus pocus takes your fancy . |
| 16 | ‘ The kids were uninhibited and came to music very fresh . |
| 17 | ’ His ‘ instant portrait ’ — on the accuracy of which he prided himself enormously — was that the client was most likely a starter , could very well be a married man , children off his hands , time on his hands , going back to his own public school days ( the velvet collar on the overcoat was a giveaway ) and the boys will be boys bit or just realized very late that what he really fancied was a bit of the other and had to wallet to get it . |
| 18 | The best Guide Book was written by Thomas West , who was born in about 1717 and went to school in Edinburgh . |