Example sentences of "and [noun] [vb past] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When the final Sunday dawned , John , Nora , and Sarah went to the early service at St. Martin 's Church in Trafalgar Square and walked down Whitehall to the site , arriving just after eleven . |
| 2 | Canon Mackenzie by upbringing and temperament belonged to the paternal age , which was drawing to a close , and " politics " was alien to him . |
| 3 | Richard and Frances escaped to the religious freedom on Pennsylvania , where they are credited with founding the city of Huntington . |
| 4 | Sadi Carnot came to the second law of thermodynamics from pondering on the efficiency of an abstract and idealized engine ; and Helmholtz came to the first from considering simple mechanical devices such as trip-hammers driven by water-wheels . |
| 5 | This effort had obviously failed by early April and the attention of both Labour and Likud switched to the five-member " Liberal " faction which had defected from Likud in late February [ see p. 37303 ] . |
| 6 | It is in this general perspective , aimed at demonstrating the link between the relations of production and the nature of the systems in which they were located , that Marx and Engels turned to the available anthropological information on pre-literate people . |
| 7 | Methodist Archives and Research Centre ( Manchester ) The collections are housed in the John Rylands Library and comprise documents and books devoted to the religious history of the denomination . |
| 8 | Des O'Grady had the honour when he and Kyle came to the 6th . |
| 9 | In the autumn , however , the Japanese recaptured the airstrips , and an argument between Stilwell and Chiang led to the former being relieved of his command . |
| 10 | They were hungry for each other and Maggie surrendered to the fierce possession of his mouth . |
| 11 | Self-government and independence came to the British colonial territories in Africa in the late 'fifties and early 'sixties — with them all the internal pressures towards reshaping a school system and its curriculum towards new national goals and aspirations . |
| 12 | Then the Oxford prop Jones was warned for stamping , another penalty was awarded and Cambridge swept to the other end to seal the match with an opportunist try by Adrian Davies . |
| 13 | Neighbouring towns such as Hungerford , Lambourn and Wantage conformed to the usual run of little market centres , with populations of 500 — 600 . |
| 14 | In general , language teaching during the first two years is in small groups with grammar classes , oral classes ( with a native speaker ) and classes devoted to the written language . |
| 15 | Then he and Billie climbed to the next floor and walked down the corridor to Room 416 . |
| 16 | Laidlaw was spun round and the Arab checked his rope then he was pushed aside and Graham subjected to the same treatment . |
| 17 | On Sept. 15 Vance and Owen wrote to the Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic deploring the bombing of the Bosnian towns of Bihac , Cazin , Sokolac and Dobronica . |
| 18 | In fact , the opportunity for Edberg to play ( up to the final ) one of the 7 other players entered with a top fifty ranking , was denied him when first , Lendl slumped to defeat against Grant Connell in three sets , then Chang and Jarryd lost to Wheaton , while , in the Swede 's half of the draw , Rotsagno lost to John Fitzgerald and Woodbridge fell to the unseeded Pat Cash . |
| 19 | As previously mentioned , these divisions of the day and night led to the twenty-four ‘ seasonal ’ hours of the complete day in Hellenistic and Roman times . |
| 20 | For too long , the time and resources devoted to the specific social and economic problems of many rural areas have been inadequate and often inappropriate . |
| 21 | She and Daak looked to the left , and then to the right , along the plateau . |
| 22 | Then , Boswell and Johnson returned to the New Inn and sat quietly all evening , and ( it being Sunday presumably ) discussed Christ and Christianity . |
| 23 | The mercurial Dean must have later softened his contempt for Duck since both he and Pope subscribed to the 1736 edition of Duck 's poems . |
| 24 | On the day of his first marriage , his wife went off to perform in a matinée and Burton listened to the International match . |
| 25 | The gross domestic product rose between July and September compared to the previous three months . |
| 26 | Darwin and Wallace came to the same conclusion about archipelago birds . |
| 27 | ‘ I was at school with Guy … myself , Guy and Youth went to the same school together in Oxfordshire . ’ |
| 28 | In the eighteenth century , as indeed for Aristotle , the best guide was fertility : a male and female belonged to the same species if they would mate and produce viable and fertile offspring . |
| 29 | They had lived in London for many years and Ilsa drifted to the Polish cafes and Hungarian tea-rooms where she could talk with other emigres and drink Viennese coffee in fluted glasses . |
| 30 | While Diana looked to her husband for a lead and guidance , the way the press and public reacted to the royal couple merely served to drive a wedge between them . |