Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The island is savage , blackened , proudly ruined , as if a god had a colossal tantrum and laid it to magnificent , careless waste . |
| 2 | In the time I was there she did pencil out a few passages , and got me to red ink a lot more . |
| 3 | Peter founded the navy out of virtually nothing , recruiting officers and sailors in the same way as for the army , and used it to good effect against the Swedes . |
| 4 | First and foremost , Borland have taken the Windows interface and used it to good advantage . |
| 5 | He was a bright boy , good at his lessons , but she told him that cleverness was only a virtue if you worked hard and used it to good purpose . |
| 6 | Whereas previously each local authority had access to its own business rate revenue , now the central government collected all this revenue and redistributed it to local authorities in proportion to the local population . |
| 7 | They rushed in , caught up the babies from student nurse Bridget 's and Kitty 's arms and handed them to young male nurses . |
| 8 | The brunette gift wrapped a bomb and handed it to grateful squaddies on point duty in Northern Ireland . |
| 9 | Boston did not ignite the recombinant-DNA controversy but it vigorously seized the torch and raised it to national and worldwide visibility . |
| 10 | The unpopularity of the planned change , however , led Kim Young Sam to reverse his position and exposed him to subsequent attack by DJP supporters within the ruling party , who leaked his role in the memorandum agreement to the press . |
| 11 | John has also become quite adept at treating fish and he has bought several with faults and restored them to full health . |
| 12 | Walkden & berry ( 1984 ) correlated CL zones in overgrowth cements from the Upper Dinantian of northern Britain , and ascribed them to cyclic replenishment of vadose and shallow meteoric water tables in calcretized marine limestones . |
| 13 | One or two of you sent in real song titles and ascribed them to particular people . |
| 14 | Intrigued by the idea the RAC drew up some rules and submitted them to other car manufacturers . |
| 15 | Stewart , who managed England 's Test side for six years and steered them to successive World Cup finals , said : ‘ When I was brought up during the war , serving Queen and country meant a lot to my generation . |
| 16 | He wrote this little publicity thing under the name Truth Shows and sent it to various places . |
| 17 | I remember I bought about 100 copies of it and sent it to various agents , bookers , and media . |
| 18 | Before he reached the top , Delaney paused , and holding with his legs , unslung the Uzi and brought it to one-handed readiness . |
| 19 | The authors who began to write about rape and related it to male power , male supremacy and male sexuality , questioned what they saw to be the essentialist constructions of female sexuality which continued to predominate within the age of sexual revolution . |
| 20 | The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives . |
| 21 | Such courses , especially those for women only , increased women 's confidence and introduced them to new ways of interpreting their experience . |
| 22 | ‘ You brought the money , Andrus , and gave it to Mordecai to be used against the Copts . |
| 23 | Seduced by the flashy demonstrations or the apparent ease of use of the various environment managers , whether Apple 's , Windows or GEM , they adopted desktop publishing wholesale and gave it to secretarial staff on the assumption that those who produce the documents ought to be the ones who make it look pretty . |
| 24 | He was the kind of man who absorbed ideas unconsciously , made them his own , and pushed them to new limits . |