Example sentences of "and [adv] [pron] [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We made straight back to the airport and I was put on a Rhodesian plane for Salisbury , where negotiations were renewed and eventually I returned to London . |
| 2 | And then er , there 's a long line of changing jobs and eventually I came to Dudley . |
| 3 | Mrs Field was such a grand lady , and eventually I moved to Lartington to become her lady 's maid . |
| 4 | There was nothing with which she could find fault , and eventually she turned to Mr Miller and said , ‘ You 've got a wonderful collection here and I 'm full of admiration at the way in which you look after them . ’ |
| 5 | After American troops joined the Allied occupation of Iran , he observed that American policies were independent of both Britain and Russia and so he appealed to President Roosevelt for help . |
| 6 | And so he set to work : despite the usual interruptions , by the end of the year he managed to complete drafts of two acts which he dispatched to Martin Browne . |
| 7 | And so he retired to Darlington . |
| 8 | Patrick told me that he was a little worried about the brightness in tone that would inevitably result from a totally maple body and so he suggested to Jim Sullivan that actives might well hold the answer . |
| 9 | And so I went to sea for the second time . |
| 10 | The woman at the villa , Barbara Coleman , would n't tell me where it was and so I went to Durance and he was equally determined about it . |
| 11 | you see and ther I su I suppose there was about ten or a dozen girls behind the counter because it was early and late turn for them because you see we were open , you see , until ten o'clock at night , you see , and er then , well , anyway , after that erm I heard about this job going as Assistant Manageress at Cambridge and er so I applied and the Manager said to me , I thought well I 'll be here ten years , erm I can be here until I 'm you know , donkeys years and er so he said well look you may not get a job because he said that another girl coming from Norwich to go to Cambridge to see the Manager as well as you and so you might not get it , she might get it , and , however , I went and er I , I met the Manager and the Manageress in the front office , the Manager 's office and we all had a chat but I did n't see the girl from Norwich , she must have gone some other day and anyway I got the job , you see , and er , and so I went to Cambridge as Assistant Manageress and I very well and I got to know all kinds of people , all nationalities being a university city . |
| 12 | And so I walked to Whitcross , the lonely crossroads on the moor , where I had arrived a year ago with no money or luggage . |
| 13 | And so I had to sort of go round the room and say I 'm Tony and this is , and go all round , and I got round the room . |
| 14 | and er and so I said to Paul , Ann 'll get plenty conversation today . |
| 15 | I had been given a week 's leave and so I hurried to Hastings as I felt sure that would be my last leave for some time . |
| 16 | Smith agreed to see me and so I flew to Salisbury , arriving on a Wednesday . |
| 17 | And so it did to Brother Cadfael , though for him it was equally a shock of enlightenment . |
| 18 | He chose Mary Ann , resigned his commission and together they returned to Sydney in 1814 . |
| 19 | Leaving the seaside resort behind them , they drove out towards the country and soon they came to Wakefield . |
| 20 | And later she said to Marilla , ‘ Perhaps you 're right to keep her . |
| 21 | She worked in the Paris office of the New York Herald Tribune for a while and later she went to Switzerland to work for the International Labour Office of the United Nations . |
| 22 | Philippa was ousted by her uncle , William IV 's younger brother , but in the eyes of her descendants she had been the rightful Countess of Toulouse and periodically they went to war to re-assert that claim . |
| 23 | He had never employed a girl before or since and now it seemed to Lyn that Dadda had hand-picked her for Stephen without the knowledge of either of them . |
| 24 | Exactly the same thing had happened in pop music and now it happened to art — hype , control , block-buying . |
| 25 | There had been a good many glasses and now he signalled to Midnight who came from the shadows by the far wall , bringing a bottle of port to refill the glass held out . |
| 26 | Precautions will not conquer empires , they will not build great cities , they will not transmute dreams into gold or carry men across wide oceans , and precautions will not , emphatically not , win fair ladies , ’ and here he turned to Ellen and lasciviously dropped his gaze to her long bare legs . |
| 27 | And then we er we left school and then we went to work for to w we went to look for work . |
| 28 | Erm no I went away for the weekend this weekend and er made four ta tapes of me and Frank in the car driving around from er we went to erm Oxford first then we went to Bournemouth , then we went to Winchester and then we went to Cheltenham , . |
| 29 | We , when we were dredging , we were dredging now from Cliff Quay and er used to get all this er grey mud and erm and the chalk and when we used to dredge , we got down to chalk er , more or less the depth we wanted to go and anybody dredging down there today if they dredge the chalk at Cliff Quay that 's the depth of water you want and erm then we dredged erm just below erm and then we went to Freston Freston we were dredging peat . |
| 30 | And then we got to school and it was all big and confusing and there was all these boys I 'd never seen before , all with their parents and some of the kids were weird-looking with funny eyes . |