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Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

No	Sentence
1	Last year they tracked down Weatherall in Rimini and consequently signed to Boy 's Own .
2	Plenty of mysteries have lasted for centuries and finally yielded to explanation .
3	The Totteridges asserted that they had read till eleven on Friday and then gone to bed .
4	She joined the King 's Fund 's then existing nursing college and later moved to director Jim Elliott 's new learning difficulties project .
5	In the Eighties , when everything was disposable , the scrap-yard was a car 's final resting place — a crude graveyard where dented hulks were crushed beyond recognition and then sent to landfill sites .
6	Poisoned by pollution , hunted for meat , drowned in fishing nets or simply bored to death in captivity , the toll is growing by the day .
7	Yet a civilization existed between 1880 and 1945 , reaching its greatest coherence and strength just before 1914 , which was European in its origins although already transplanted to North and South America and the British white colonies and although unevenly spread among European countries themselves .
8	The institutional church , preoccupied with orthodoxy and fundamentally opposed to Marxism because it is viewed as materialistic and atheistic , is made up of bishops , priests , laity and religious movements who , though not very numerous , are powerful , partly because the laity of the group belong to the wealthier classes .
9	All engines were stopped , the troops given a meal and then , in orderly fashion , embarked on lighters and later transferred to rowing boats , which put them ashore .
10	It was too early for me to be a Yuckie — the tabloid newspapers ' shorthand for the young city slickers who celebrated the end of a day 's trading with too much lager and then reverted to type as the football hooligans they really were under the skin .
11	The afternoon audience steadily declined , built up for an hour or so in the late afternoon and then surrendered to TV , except for another late-night blip .
12	is the knowledge that if er , we 'd been talking about them two hundred and fifty years ago we 'd be put on trial and probably burnt to death .
13	The ship 's captain and crew may be brought to trial and even sent to prison .
14	In July 1979 she moved into the 50,000 apartment and immediately set to work furnishing the rooms in a warm but simple Habitat style .
15	Methylated bile acids were produced by reaction at room temperature for one hour and subsequently evaporated to dryness under nitrogen .
16	And that was as far as she got because the crash-bang music gave the final crash , the stage lights held for a moment and then cut to blackout , and there was a smattering of couldn't-care-less applause from the front of the house .
17	‘ Wires had been ripped from the wall and deliberately attached to metal furniture in the barricades , ’ he said .
18	Arms salesman ; okay the Avenger the Equaliser the Total Fucking Nutter went for the legs too but still , and the editor spiked , and the rapist-lenient judge raped and the pornographer poisoned and stroked and the man who was so callous about the bloodshed in the Iran/Iraq war forced to watch his penned animals die like cattle like soldiers like cattle and then bled to death in his own private fountains of blood and the businessman who put profits before safety and not only helped kill a thousand people but then tried to get out of paying the survivors and dependants any compensation gets his own gas explosion — blevey is the technical term apparently — and fuck me whoever he is ( assuming he is a he ) , he 's got a sense of humour or at least irony why he 's produced what 's almost a snuff video effectively a snuff video if you mean brain-death anyway it 's the closest anyone will admit to ever having seen or found one even the Obscene Pubs Squad who 've been looking for years but although everybody assumes they exist nobody 's ever seen one until old gorilla man comes along and just makes his own , specifically to warn off any other porn merchants thinking of dealing in snuff !
19	Marie-Helène Joiret , a council member in Flémalle , who was with Cools , was shot in the abdomen and subsequently taken to hospital in a serious condition .
20	Howe 's budget deflated the economy and seriously added to unemployment .
21	The reactions were performed in the absence ( - ) or presence ( + ) of DNA and then subjected to SDS-PAGE with subsequent autoradiography .
22	Both reactions were performed in the presence of DNA and then subjected to SDS-PAGE with subsequent autoradiography .
23	All reactions were performed in the presence of DNA and then subjected to SDS-PAGE .
24	Both reactions were performed in the presence of DNA and then subjected to SDS-PAGE with subsequent autoradiography .
25	In the meantime , the injured driver and GAB workers were attended to by a first aider by GAB and then sent to hospital by ambulance .
26	Bahrain station was not informed of their approach and so failed to light-up , and the moon has already set , so the pilot of Horsa overshot .
27	While Cooper and McMahon were still serving their sentences , the Postmaster General who had announced the £5000 Post Office reward money , John Stonehouse , MP , and the detective who had arranged its distribution , Commander Kenneth Drury , were themselves convicted of criminal charges and also sent to prison .
28	Nearly all the political prisoners are detained without charges and never brought to trial .
29	When an acute outbreak has occurred the sheep should be treated with one of the benzimidazoles , levamisole or ivermectin and immediately moved to pasture not recently grazed by sheep .
30	He saw the whole machinery of government as keenly attuned to public opinion because the character of the government depended on the results of the last general election ; because there must be an election at least every 5 years ; and because the electors had a genuinely free choice between candidates putting forward different policies .