Example sentences of "and [be] [verb] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 It was back to the ‘ miserable refuge ’ of the Lords Act of 1759 with its ‘ great error ’ in giving all to one creditor , which induced many prisoners to stay and waste their property in prisons rather than by complying with the Act , obtain their discharge and be sent back to prison by other creditors .
2 If a young person who reached the age of 16 on July 2 was lucky enough to obtain employment would they be unable to avail themselves of this opportunity and be forced back to school ?
3 They climbed into their chauffeured car and were whisked away to heaven knew where , and I thought frustratedly about time and the little of it there was left in Winnipeg .
4 Moore caused considerable scandal by depicting Jesus as surviving the Crucifixion , and being nursed back to health by Joseph of Arimathea .
5 He falls into a fever , and is nursed back to health by the devoted Joe .
6 I was up there for six weeks , I passed the course and was posted back to Brigade H Q to a wider posting to a regiment .
7 When young Thomas Carter returned from his duties about 10.00 , he was given bread and cheese for his lunch , and was Packed off to school with his brother .
8 In London in 1331 , he was engaged as master of the new work of the chapter house and cloister of St Paul 's Cathedral by June 1332 , and was to press on to completion , but the chapter house had not quite been finished in 1349 .
9 I was bored with Aubagne and was looking forward to Orange .
10 He had worked hard all his life and had served his country for four years and was looking forward to retirement in the home he had worked for all his days .
11 As we turned Bass Point with a good view of the Predannack helicopter base , my concentration was drawn by a helicopter which had lifted off and was heading out to sea , at our level and across our path .
12 He lived in a good loose-box , and was let out to water twice a day .
13 The alternative to the Protocols as a base to the conspiracy theory was the revival of the French counter-revolutionary tradition , which had been developed in the first articles in the ‘ Cause of World Unrest ’ disclosures in the Morning Post in July 1920 , and was handed down to posterity in more permanent form in Nesta Webster 's version of world history .
14 About two or three months after that , I got into trouble again and was taken back to prison .
15 ‘ He said he was feeling tired and was going home to bed . ’
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