Example sentences of "and [vb past] [to-vb] in the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a food and store safety officer , I felt dismayed and frustrated to see in the Journal , members of staff wearing inappropriate jewellery and , in high risk areas , all hair not kept within hats . |
| 2 | Suppliers selected for trial should be notified and invited to participate in the planning organisation . |
| 3 | She later married an Ulsterman and moved to live in the province . |
| 4 | She spotted a telephone kiosk , and stopped to look in the telephone directory . |
| 5 | Furthermore , since " the common unaided senses of man are not equal to the realisation of the world " , education should provide the means by which the " dull superficial sight of the multitude " can be " illuminated and helped to penetrate in the direction of reality " . |
| 6 | The question , light , whispered , had barely left her lips and seemed to tremble in the air between them , when with a swift unexpected movement , just as she lifted her hand to touch his face , he caught her wrist . |
| 7 | Mr Beckenham looked about the altered room , and seemed to take in the improvements in one swift glance . |
| 8 | Then the first ‘ maid ’ they ever had was a girl of 16 called Mollie and she had been deserted by her husband and came to live in the house with three tots . |
| 9 | She turned slowly to look at him , as he deposited a bag of fragrant croissants and the Financial Times carelessly on the hall table and came to lean in the doorway of the guest room . |
| 10 | Buddhists of the Northern school of China and Japan evolved their own theory of grace and came to believe in the Buddha as a Saviour , though in the earliest Scriptures he himself claimed to be nothing more than a teacher , a shower of the way . |
| 11 | Balberith smashed through the rear doors of the catering truck , careened along the spotlessly clean linoleum floor and came to rest in the fruit and salad bar . |
| 12 | The flexibility of hydrogels means that the lenses can be folded and inserted through a smaller incision than conventional ‘ hard ’ lens , or even inserted while dehydrated and allowed to hydrate in the eye . |
| 13 | Ward staff are invited and encouraged to participate in the learner 's project and to attend the presentation . |
| 14 | I wanted to see Natasha , but my mother said ‘ No ’ and threatened to call in the police . |
| 15 | I felt revolted by them and began to sleep in the hall , dragging a pillow and a wool blanket off the bed and leaving the room to them , in the hope that they would understand my anger , that they would no longer stay till the early hours of the morning , stepping over me as I lay asleep , leaving overflowing ashtrays and empty glasses and cans and bottles strewn about the floor . |
| 16 | But she refused , and began to walk in the direction of Trantridge . |
| 17 | He turned away from her and began to walk in the direction of the house , and after a moment 's hesitation she followed . |
| 18 | Multi-agency case conferences should be convened and parents should be invited to attend and permitted to participate in the decision-making process . |
| 19 | The interrogators were quietly sacked and sent to work in the coal mines . |
| 20 | After two years of this , Miss D'Armande remembered , Miss Ray suddenly left the theatre and went to live in the country . |
| 21 | Her mother divorced Ipuky and went to live in the north of the country with one older son . |
| 22 | ‘ So I got Laura Parslow to help me , and went to live in the East End , and the only work I could find , being such a fine lady and quite untrained , was as a maid-of-all-work , a skivvy , which I was by day , and wrote my column at night , when my work was over . ’ |
| 23 | In May 1987 the debtor , who had carried on the business of running a nursing home , sold the business as a going concern and went to live in the Canary Islands . |
| 24 | The girl 's father could make no further objection , so the two of them were married directly , and went to live in the forest . |
| 25 | They escaped from the toy shop , and went to live in the market building , in the middle of the square . |
| 26 | As the eldest son , Father shortened his education — or had it shortened for him — and went to help in the family business . |
| 27 | Adam climbed in and went to stand in the prow , eyes fixed once more on the island . |
| 28 | She sprang to her feet and went to look in the mirror in the hall . |
| 29 | The aunt noticed , and went to look in the shed again . |
| 30 | My American ‘ friend ’ basked in this small lonely pool and appeared to revel in the uncertainties of the traveller 's life . |