Example sentences of "and [pron] [vb past] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have many memories of Eton : services in College Chapel , especially in winter when the lights were lit and I listened to the massed singing of a favourite hymn ; the Headmaster , Dr Alington , an Olympian figure in scarlet gown , taking " absence " on the chapel steps ; the Fourth of June , a festival peculiar to Eton , and fireworks bursting over the river ; the Field Game on winter afternoons while mist crept across the grounds ; the lamps in the High Street and crowds of boys hurrying back to their houses before " lock-up " . |
| 2 | The ingredients were gathered together for me by Lord Wittisham , the kidneys themselves prepared by Mr Pegg , and I attended to the final cooking and preparation of the sauce . ’ |
| 3 | The horse was led back to its stable and I walked to the far end of the house , where there was a lawn of coarse-bladed grass , brown with the heat , some exotic-looking flowers in a stony border , and cushioned garden chairs standing bright in the dappled shade of what looked like a cherry tree . |
| 4 | And I said to the old man I says , er well that 's it now . |
| 5 | We had yesterday off , so James and I went to the Modern Art Gallery , then to the Cameo to see Indochine , which was really brilliant . |
| 6 | Why did all the grown-ups giggle so much when Richard ( the younger of the two boys ) and I went to the fancy dress party as Adam and Eve ? |
| 7 | I was lucky because we heard that the Government was encouraging women 's employment , so my husband and I went to the Prime Minister 's residence with an application . |
| 8 | That evening , instead of having dinner at the house , Fritz and I went to the little hotel in the town of Zenda where I had stayed before . |
| 9 | So the weeks and months passed and I went to the local fire station once and sometimes twice a week and listened to lectures by firemen on firefighting and war organisation and what different officers wear in undress and fire uniform . |
| 10 | Toby first — and I turned to the back pages of the Daily News . |
| 11 | The flowering of Serbian national culture which occurred in the late eighteenth century and which led to the national awakening and later re-establishment of a Serbian state , owes much to the Orthodox monasteries in Fruška Gora . |
| 12 | The other variable which was not patient defined and which contributed to the multiple regression model was being under the care of a general practitioner with a special interest in diabetes . |
| 13 | We work in the Health arena , you yourself have had considerable experience , and you referred to the changing roles between public and private agencies , and you mentioned trusts and so on in the health arena , I just wondered whether you 'd like to explore with us a little , your own personal thinking about the nature of these changing roles , and perhaps a little bit of crystal ball gazing ahead , |
| 14 | And she went to the front door and knocked , and a little bent-up man appeared … ’ |
| 15 | Returning to the kitchen she heard the sound of a horse and cart in Celtic Crescent and she went to the front door to look out . |
| 16 | He kissed her , and she thrilled to the familiar hunger in his embrace . |
| 17 | And she ran to the nearest ladies ' room and emerged with bleary eyes , clutching at her stomach . |
| 18 | He hung up , and she listened to the empty line . |
| 19 | You 'll have to go and sit with Mrs Black 's class , ’ and she pointed to the little ones seated on the floor . |
| 20 | Nevertheless , his presence gave Breeze an uncomfortable feeling , and she moved to the far end of the room so that she should not overhear what he was saying . |
| 21 | She had refused to have her husband cremated , not because she had anything so fanciful as a religious objection to cremation , but because she quite erroneously considered cremation to be a new-fangled idea , and she objected to the new . |
| 22 | Gradually the port wing tip fell on the ground and we came to the gentlest of stops some 70/80 yards from the engineering wing perimeter . |
| 23 | We got the coffee , he paid for it and we walked to the remotest part of the canteen , behind a sort of screen , why here I said . |
| 24 | We then voted on a lengthy Liberal resolution er , it was amended by Labour we voted on all of the separate points in the resolution , all were agreed and then Professor decided that he wanted to move a further amendment which after some consultation , some discussion with the legal people about it 's validity , he did which wiped out all of the things that we 'd just agreed and we turned to the original Conservative motion minus the beginning phrase and with a couple of things stuck on at the end and we thought well that 's it the Conservatives will vote for that , but no although it was their own motion in all but name , the Conservatives would n't vote for that unless Mr was allowed to move it . |
| 25 | Indeed it is net too much to say that the traveller walking down the branching road becomes in the end an image of ‘ the Good ’ in Tolkien , and one opposed to the endless self-regarding circuits of the Ring . |
| 26 | Mr Koc contacted a lawyer in Istanbul and they wrote to the Public Prosecutor 's office . |
| 27 | Mr Koc contacted a lawyer in Istanbul and they wrote to the Public Prosecutor 's office . |
| 28 | The Americans decided that an armed resistance was necessary and they went to the United Nations , shades of Bosnia here , they went to the United Nations to get support and , as luck would have it , the Soviets were sulking , this was quite common in the nineteen forties and fifties , and the a the Soviet ambassador to the U N was having a sulk and was refusing to attend the Security Council and he therefore persuaded the Security Council to pass a resolution er producing a United Nations force to aid plucky little South Korea against its vicious oppressive northern neighbours and so the Korean war started and the United Nations ' forces were commanded by one General Douglas MacArthur , General Douglas MacArthur , in case you do n't know , won the second world war single handedly |
| 29 | He 'd met Sean Penn maybe 20 times , and they went to the same clubs on Melrose and Sunset , even if not at the same time or on the same night . |
| 30 | and they went to the wrong door and said is this car anything |