Example sentences of "and [verb] [pron] to an [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During pre-trial interrogation Talb told Swedish police that between October and December 1988 he had retrieved a bomb from one of the PFLP-GC 's West German safe houses and passed it to an unnamed person , causing speculation that it could have been identical to the Lockerbie device . |
| 2 | The rapist approached the 17-year-old waitress in a bus station at Holmfirth , West Yorks , and subjected her to an hour-long ordeal . |
| 3 | Jones , now 19 , and living in Holyhead , said Roberts and son , Ian , would hold him upside down , tie his feet with rope or string , and tie it to an overhead pole . |
| 4 | Jones said Roberts and son Ian would hold him upside down , tie his feet with rope or string , and tie it to an overhead pole . |
| 5 | The Bishop took off his mitre and handed it to an adjacent altar-boy . |
| 6 | The Iraqis ' suspicions of his links with Iran , Israel and America ( he was on the CIA 's payroll ) were reinforced when , that year , he said : ‘ If support were strong enough we could control the Kirkuk oilfield and give it to an American company to operate ’ . |
| 7 | If A then sells and delivers them to an innocent purchaser , the latter will acquire good title . |
| 8 | His work in geology was of equal importance , since he developed a technique for viewing slivers of rock directly through a microscope ( by cementing the mineral to a glass plate and grinding it to an extreme thinness ) , thus allowing its structure to be visualized by direct microscopy , rather than through use of reflected light , which revealed only its surface qualities . |
| 9 | The honeybees have taken this basic arrangement and elaborated it to an extreme degree so that they live in colonies of many thousands . |
| 10 | It follows that it would not be possible to prejudice an unwelcome shareholder by engineering a proposed buy-out and committing him to an unwanted mandatory offer obligation . |
| 11 | Sheffield Crown Court heard that the man , who ca n't be named for legal reasons , kidnapped his twenty seven year old wife and took her to an isolated spot on the moors above the city and raped and sexually assaulted her . |
| 12 | Only the family historian can charter some of these kaleidoscopic patterns of mobility and reduce them to an understandable human scale . |