Example sentences of "[noun] and [vb past] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corbett nodded , rose and moved away ; he emptied his bladder and went to a nearby stream to bathe his hands and face in the cold clear water . |
| 2 | But at that moment their creaking conveyance gave a sudden fearsome jerk and came to a dead stop . |
| 3 | I gave up being a bird watcher and succumbed to the delicious trippery feel of sun on my back and sand on my front . |
| 4 | As they rounded the bend towards Westminster , Ranulf nudged Corbett and pointed to the near bank . |
| 5 | Real Madrid never recovered from an own goal by Brazilian defender Rocha and crashed to a 2–0 UEFA Cup defeat against Torino at Turin . |
| 6 | They seem to have shut their eyes and hoped to the very end . ’ |
| 7 | The dollar crisis and the abandonment of the Gold Standard signalled the beginning of the end of the dollar bloc and led to the inevitable American withdrawal from Vietnam . |
| 8 | They dressed with distinctive plainness and aspired to a simple integrity expressed in behavioural terms defined with the authority of Scripture . |
| 9 | While the Society of Women Market Vendors exposed the corruption of the PDC and objected to the high tariffs in the new markets , it was not sufficiently organized to form a counter-proposal or take action upon it . |
| 10 | In Structuralist Poetics Culler took an unenthusiastic view of deconstructionism , but he shortly returned to the United States and succumbed to the deconstructive wave that swept through the American academy in the late seventies , and into which I did not feel inclined to plunge . |
| 11 | Shocked Andria raised the alarm then jumped in her own car and drove to a local beauty spot in Runnymede , Surrey . |
| 12 | They then analysed over 800 one-month spreads for 62 months and came to the following conclusions : |
| 13 | He strolled across the foyer to deposit her room key and spoke to the middle-aged receptionist behind the desk , who straightened respectfully . |
| 14 | Corbett stopped his horse and turned to the startled Ranulf . |
| 15 | She dug in her heels and came to a grinding halt . |
| 16 | It was on the outskirts of the village and belonged to an elderly , childless couple . |
| 17 | Brand took 7 at his opening hole after being plugged in sand and subsided to an 81 . |
| 18 | I went to Council meetings , asked questions from the gallery and wrote to the local press . |
| 19 | This threw growing numbers on the Poor Law and added to a rising poor rate . |
| 20 | Joachim eventually broke away from the Cistercians and retired to a lonely spot in Calabria where disciples gathered around him and he was given papal permission to found his own congregation . |
| 21 | One of the men in the room got to his feet and crossed to a well-stocked drinks cabinet , refilling his glass , offering the same service to his colleagues . |
| 22 | Mr Bumble jumped to his feet and went to the other end of the room . |
| 23 | She picked up the bags at her feet and plodded to the white wooden door , feeling in her bag for the key . |
| 24 | He parked the machine and announced to a stunned crowd that he had just retired . |
| 25 | Two of these survived the arduous voyage round Cape Horn in the middle of winter and arrived to a grand reception in London . |
| 26 | As Blanche snatched up the telephone and listened to the reassuring hum of the dialling tone , she caught sight of herself in the mirror on the wall : the shimmer of sweat on her forehead , eyes wild , face haggard and pale , hair stormy and unkempt , knuckles bruised and sore . |
| 27 | OK I refused to go to Gran 's funeral last year , stayed at home and listened to the Top Forty top volume while I shouted out Nora 's big speech from The Doll 's House — ‘ I was simply your little songbird , your doll … ’ |
| 28 | The perpetrators of four of the hijackings were refused asylum and extradited to the Soviet Union ( despite the lack of a formal Swedish-Soviet extradition agreement ) . |
| 29 | Just before a tyro Pat Pocock played his first Test there , over 21 years ago , Tom Graveney cruelly pointed to the Bridgetown sightscreen and said to the tremulous off-spinner : ‘ Oh , look lad , it 's still peppered with those little red dots from that time Clyde Walcott got after Jim Laker ten years ago . |
| 30 | Donna glanced agitatedly at her watch and walked to the main doors , trying to see the Volvo parked in the street beyond . |