Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pers pn] to [adj] [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 | In the time I was there she did pencil out a few passages , and got me to red ink a lot more . |
| 3 | Lord Hailsham , however , used twentieth century reasoning and applied it to nineteenth century cases . |
| 4 | First and foremost , Borland have taken the Windows interface and used it to good advantage . |
| 5 | He was a bright boy , good at his lessons , but she told him that cleverness was only a virtue if you worked hard and used it to good purpose . |
| 6 | Peter founded the navy out of virtually nothing , recruiting officers and sailors in the same way as for the army , and used it to good effect against the Swedes . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | Two men appeared in front of him , and he caught her wrist and jerked her to one side , raising his sword . |
| 9 | Elizabeth Woodville turned and drew him to one side . |
| 10 | Whereas previously each local authority had access to its own business rate revenue , now the central government collected all this revenue and redistributed it to local authorities in proportion to the local population . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The brunette gift wrapped a bomb and handed it to grateful squaddies on point duty in Northern Ireland . |
| 13 | He took off the phoney glasses and tweed hat and threw them to one side . |
| 14 | He peeled it off and threw it to one side then sat facing the three Americans . |
| 15 | She found she could n't tear her eyes away , and when he managed to get his second boot off and threw it to one side , then lifted his head , she was still staring . |
| 16 | The unpopularity of the planned change , however , led Kim Young Sam to reverse his position and exposed him to subsequent attack by DJP supporters within the ruling party , who leaked his role in the memorandum agreement to the press . |
| 17 | John has also become quite adept at treating fish and he has bought several with faults and restored them to full health . |
| 18 | Walkden & berry ( 1984 ) correlated CL zones in overgrowth cements from the Upper Dinantian of northern Britain , and ascribed them to cyclic replenishment of vadose and shallow meteoric water tables in calcretized marine limestones . |
| 19 | One or two of you sent in real song titles and ascribed them to particular people . |
| 20 | So you went and pulled her to one side . |
| 21 | Intrigued by the idea the RAC drew up some rules and submitted them to other car manufacturers . |
| 22 | Stewart , who managed England 's Test side for six years and steered them to successive World Cup finals , said : ‘ When I was brought up during the war , serving Queen and country meant a lot to my generation . |
| 23 | The heavy door frame caused it some minor difficulty , which it overcame with a swing of its shoulders that tore the timber out and tossed it to one side . |
| 24 | Over a year ago she had written another book , The Professor , and sent it to one publisher after another . |
| 25 | I remember I bought about 100 copies of it and sent it to various agents , bookers , and media . |
| 26 | He wrote this little publicity thing under the name Truth Shows and sent it to various places . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Before he reached the top , Delaney paused , and holding with his legs , unslung the Uzi and brought it to one-handed readiness . |
| 29 | The authors who began to write about rape and related it to male power , male supremacy and male sexuality , questioned what they saw to be the essentialist constructions of female sexuality which continued to predominate within the age of sexual revolution . |
| 30 | 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 . |