Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb past] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | MARCUS DALY-FERRIERA , 27 , is a Royal Engineers corporal and came to pentathlon through the Army Triathlon in 1987 . |
| 2 | And er I got involved on national registration and er , on one occasion , we were working , we 'd got a deadline and we were working through the weekend , and my wife came to pick me up at what she thought was a reasonable time , at one o'clock on Saturday , found she was given a cup of tea and set to work , and we finished , going home about midnight . . |
| 3 | No biopsy was performed in the other cases but the lung opacity on the chest x ray or computed tomogram had the same macroscopic aspect as in the cases of proved lung lymphoma and responded to chemotherapy as well as the gastric lesion . |
| 4 | She stared uneasily at the envelope , at the black , firm hand , at the French stamp , and then she put out the light and went to bed . |
| 5 | Founder Edwin Drummond had hoped to double this figure and confessed to disappointment at the response . |
| 6 | Anna walked around the house , looked into every room and , having inspected her new home , apparently satisfied , settled on Christine 's lap and went to sleep , exhausted after the journey . |
| 7 | However the girls took the dog upstairs where it wolfed all that was left of the lasagne and went to sleep in front of the hearth , quieter than it ever had been at the Castello Crocetto . |
| 8 | The 11 sufferers identified in the study said the smell blighted their relationships with the opposite sex , wrecked promotion prospects at work and led to addiction to cigarettes , alcohol and drugs . |
| 9 | Unsupervised , we succumbed to the effects of the wine and the sun and went to sleep , berets over our eyes , in the long grass underneath some olive trees . |
| 10 | So we all took a bath in the same tub and went to bed |
| 11 | It proved a certain hit and shot to number two in the UK before topping the charts in Belgium , Australia , Hong Kong and Finland , and storming top tens all across Europe . |
| 12 | MAGISTRATE Michael Tobin pinned a female colleague against a wall , lifted her T-shirt and tried to rubber stamp her skin , an industrial tribunal heard . |
| 13 | His thoughts , when they finally came , had been uttered in all their simplistic banality , in no particular order of logic or relevance , and in a curiously gentle voice punctuated by long pauses in which he had gazed thoughtfully at the throne and appeared to commune happily with some inner presence . |
| 14 | On this occasion I wrapped myself up in a blanket and went to sleep in a ditch . |
| 15 | I leant over Mum and whispered to Dad . |
| 16 | Numb with agony and humiliation , she got undressed like a ghost and went to bed , unable to let herself dwell too deeply on what had happened in case she found herself asking the inevitable question : if I hate Damian Flint , why has he been able to hurt me so deeply ? |
| 17 | The brick wall round the garden broke into focus and faded to black . |
| 18 | And on that enigmatic note he kissed her cheek and went to bed . |
| 19 | Just about the time that Dougie started er building substantially in the town and doubled to population to its present six and a half thousand or so . |
| 20 | To determine the accuracy of back titration in determining alkali concentrations , triplicate measurements of alkali concentrations were performed on standard bicarbonate solutions ( 1 , 2 , 2.5 , 5 , 10 , 15 , 20 , and 25 mM sodium bicarbonate ) , deionised water , and standard oesophageal perfusate containing [ 3 H ] PEG and titrated to pH 7.0 with 0.2 M NaOH . |
| 21 | Aliquots of egg lecithin were placed into a glass test tube and flushed to dryness under a stream of nitrogen at 37°C , and subsequently lyophylised for 18 hours ( biles 3–7 ) . |
| 22 | The glue held the granulation in place and turned to carbon when heated . |
| 23 | She switched off the CD player , went into the bedroom , checked that her black dress , red jacket and red shoes were spotless for the morning : tucked a red and gold scarf and a couple of gilt bracelets into her bag to wear in the evening and went to bed . |
| 24 | He woke up every day and went to work at the ice-cream parlour , but he began to hate the taste , the sight , the very thought of it . |
| 25 | The barring of non-Estonian citizens , mostly Russians , Ukrainians and Byelarussians , drew protests from the Russian leadership and appeared to fuel tension over the issue of Russian troop withdrawal from Estonia [ see this page ] . |
| 26 | Thirty-three bored and idle men from Rathcoole and nearby Carrickfergus took two minibuses and a taxi and drove to north Antrim for a pub crawl in districts where the writ of the Central Cc.ordinating Committee was not observed . |
| 27 | ‘ After the police had come and talked to us I just went home and had a cup of tea and a glass of brandy with water and went to bed . ’ |
| 28 | He could n't possibly see her in the darkness , but she still shrank down in the seat — then felt her eyes widen when he stripped off his jacket and started to unbutton his shirt . |
| 29 | Detective-Constable Barnes , large , rustic , intelligent and benign , put down his spade and went to work lovingly with a soft brush on the exposed uprights of the flue , whisking away loose , moist soil that abandoned its hold with revealing readiness . |
| 30 | I put the pressure-cooker back and went to bed on the sofa . |