Example sentences of "[noun prp] [conj] [adv] [vb pp] to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As is so often the case in Paisley 's career , the crucial step was taken by someone other than Paisley and then offered to Paisley as an opportunity the possibilities of which he could appreciate . |
| 2 | You know Irene and I had a holiday along there , we stayed at Frinton and then moved to Clacton . |
| 3 | ‘ Eventually the scheme could cover much of Scotland and then spread to England , ’ said Hugh . |
| 4 | Educated at Eton and then sent to Europe to improve himself , he worked for a short time in various jobs in ‘ the city ’ before becoming an ADC to the Governor of Australia . |
| 5 | Indeed , Smith ( 1975 , 288 ) suggests that the school originated in Colchester and then transferred to Verulamium , although the similarity of an early pavement at Colchester ( the Cupids mosaic ) to what would be a considerably later one at Verulamium ( the Lion and Stag mosaic ) will make this difficult to substantiate . |
| 6 | Poppy-growing started early in Anatolia and certainly spread to Crete during the Minoan period . |
| 7 | They were not activists in the movement — some of them might have been from the Moss and come to watch the barney — but all were sent to the jail in Inveraray and then taken to Edinburgh for prosecution . |
| 8 | This callousness was repeated later when she cruelly promoted the young Krishnamurti as the new ‘ Lord Maitreya ’ , allowing him first to be abused by the theosophical pederast Charles Leadbeater and later sent to Harrow . |
| 9 | Recently he captained Harlequins on the Saturday , flew to South Africa , was voted Man-of-the-Match playing for the South African Barbarians on the Monday and then returned to England for Quins ' league match against Leicester . |
| 10 | He was charged with the murder of Sara Hart and then escorted to Aylesbury Prison to await trial . |
| 11 | The South India Railway was to be built as far as Ramaswaram and then connected to Ceylon by embankments and bridges . |
| 12 | Dove , the early American Modernist , met everyone worth meeting in Paris at the beginning of the century through the ministrations of his good friend Alfred Maurer and then returned to New York where , during the 1920s , he lived on a houseboat moored on the Harlem River . |
| 13 | De Gaulle engineered a majority for himself on the CFLN and promptly objected to Giraud 's claim to combine the functions of Commander-in-Chief with the co-presidency . |
| 14 | After 1815 he first involved himself with the religious and social work of Thomas Chalmers [ q.v. ] in Glasgow and then moved to London where he initially promoted seamen 's charities and was an associate of the Evangelical Clapham sect . |
| 15 | Bachelor Brian left Wirral in 1965 to emigrate to New Zealand and later moved to Tasmania where he works as a college caretaker and security officer . |
| 16 | When Keith Vaughan left for a holiday in France in July 1948 , he had momentarily found himself alone at Hamilton Terrace and again reported to Edie on his progress . |
| 17 | That of the second piece is very similar to the smaller coin , a denarius struck at Rome , and indicates that it too was minted at Rome and then transported to Syria . |