Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] and [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bogdan Ursu was plucked from a grim Romanian orphanage by an aid organisation and brought to Middlesbrough . |
| 2 | In a report in January 1990 AI expressed concern that the screening process in Hong Kong was critically flawed and that asylum-seekers at risk of human rights violations might be denied refugee status and returned to Viet Nam . |
| 3 | He was put on a US Drug Enforcement Administration plane and whisked to Miami on Monday . |
| 4 | Keg beers — so called because they are kept in sealed and pressurised containers called kegs — are therefore injected with carbon dioxide and connected to cylinders of CO 2 ; in the pub cellar . |
| 5 | Helmut Kragan had left Dresden immediately after the council meeting and flown to Paris . |
| 6 | By mid-morning Leon Kennedy had not arrived down so Rosen left a letter for him on the hall table and returned to London . |
| 7 | In December 1991 he often visited a nearby farm landing strip and talked to microlight owners and examined their aircraft . |
| 8 | He was housed in a converted milking shed and brought to fitness by being ridden around the farm , when time allowed , by Sirrell Griffiths himself — all fifteen and a half stone of him — and occasionally by the Chief Constable of the Avon and Somerset Police , David Shattock . |
| 9 | His corpse was boiled , the flesh separated from the bones , stuffed with spices and sealed in a lead coffin and taken to Jedburgh Abbey to be amongst his ancestors . ’ |
| 10 | Cancellation must be made in writing by the person who completed the booking form and sent to Falcon Sailing at the address below . |
| 11 | There was a legend , and goodness only knows where these tales come from , that Mr Wilson had once taken savings from the post office and gone to Brighton for the week-end . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , Chris Protheroe cut out the sections of the fractured stabiliser chord and returned to Farnborough with the pieces for examination by metallurgists from both the Royal Aircraft Establishment and the Boeing company . |
| 13 | TWO Dutch balloonists who ditched during the Atlantic race were rescued by Navy helicopter and flown to hospital at Truro yesterday . |
| 14 | The joint chiefs of staff reviewed the role of Japan in defence policy and recommended to James Forrestal , the Secretary of Defense , on 1 March 1949 that in consequence of the serious world crisis and the probability of this crisis deepening , appropriate measures should be taken at an early date so that the ‘ military potential ’ of Japan could be utilised should events warrant it . |
| 15 | If there is a life hereafter , then surely we will find Fred Daly strolling down an Elysian Fairway , whistling in his own inimitable style , his gallery enthralled by the perceptible body sway on the backswing before launching a colossal drive from the tee , enchanted by the purity of his iron play and driven to distraction by precisely 32 lifts of the putter blade from the back to the top of the ball before he sends it with authority into the cup . |
| 16 | One was a letter stamped with the initials of the police trade union and addressed to Commissioner Italo Pompeo Baldoni . |
| 17 | He was treated in intensive care at York District Hospital and transferred to St James 's Hospital , Leeds . |
| 18 | Er and I remember er er a a very vivid occasion of being on Road , which is close by the er Hucknall Colliery about three o'clock time , when er a couple of these er er people were being escorted back towards the centre of the town , after they 'd done er a day 's work and there were lots and lots of er er er people about , men and women , who were shouting and jeering , at er at er at these at these people , who had been er who had er er violated the union decision and gone to work . |
| 19 | But we made rather a mistake on the way back , and we were picked up by an Army lorry and taken to West Friar House on the south side and given hot tea and something to eat . |
| 20 | He then bought a health physics monitor to help his neutron detection and returned to Utah with it the next day , 15 February . |
| 21 | Leaving Mongolia aside , the leaders of each country are the linear descendants of ‘ Muscovite ’ Communists , sheltered in the USSR during the Second World War and brought to power in the van of the Red Army : in times of friction , it takes little to remind Eastern Europe 's leaders not only how their bread is buttered , but how they got into the larder in the first place . |
| 22 | Genetic screening , a legacy of the eugenics movement , was invented after the second world war and brought to medicine by eugenicists eager to ease public acceptance . |
| 23 | After an eye test he was given the rank of petty officer engineer and directed to Victoria Station to take charge of 20 similar recruits . |
| 24 | The mouse cftr probes were derived by reverse transcriptase PCR from mouse testis mRNA and corresponded to nucleotides 305–691 of exons 3–5 . |
| 25 | HCO 3 - absorption was reduced by 6.25 µg cholera toxin and changed to secretion by the higher doses ( Table V ) . |
| 26 | It was most fortunate that a young Cambridge biologist called Mark Pryor was extricated by the powers that be from a searchlight unit and sent to Farnborough to take over this work . |