Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] to [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They took their toys to The Priory Church of England School and sold them to each other to help the starving in Somalia . |
| 2 | Hollins , a cotton broker who was ignorant of the fraud , bought it from B and resold it to another person , receiving only broker 's commission . |
| 3 | These entities are placed on Earth to manage coincidences in such a way as to inch us gradually along the evolutionary path and , while on Ketamine , Lilly was able to communicate with these extraterrestrials , who informed him that they had removed DNA samples from Earth and transported them to another planet . |
| 4 | And it seemed to her that she was at least two people , for the person who had plunged them into the forest and brought them to this spot was not the same as the person who sat here waiting for Allen to say what he was doing , and for the Friar to return . |
| 5 | Probing with his narrow hands he located the organs he sought , and , using another slender knife , dislodged and withdrew them , handing them to his assistant , who placed them in bronze trays and took them to another table where he covered them with natron salt , to dry and preserve them ready for the four jars which would stand in a chest at the head of the coffin . |
| 6 | ‘ It was only a postcard photo and I gave it spirituality , animation and took it to another vocabulary ’ . |
| 7 | A fortnight later Edward sealed the text and issued it to all sheriffs . |
| 8 | The amount of RNA synthesized was unrelated to motor activity or any measure of stress that we could identify ( for instance how much the birds peeped or twittered ) , but it was strongly correlated with their preference score ; that is , the more the chicks had learned about the flashing light and preferred it to any alternative , the more RNA was synthesized in their forebrain roof . |