Example sentences of "to [noun prp] and [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1987 , I moved to Sheffield and formed Red Grape Cabaret , and for the past three years I have toured the country with fellow comedians Roger Monkhouse and Adam Cavaleri , telling jokes in a bewildering variety of circumstances . |
| 2 | Then Zulu Sierra came on frequency , spoke to Warton and reported 2,000 feet . |
| 3 | She then went to Ibiza and made similar claims against four men . |
| 4 | He took it by train to Devonshire and walked many miles over the moors with it so that it would not be seen near Baskerville Hall . |
| 5 | On 3 October 1943 Spain had announced its return to " neutral " status but , in fact , continued to export wolfram to Germany and to allow German agents to operate in and from Spain . |
| 6 | She married a cousin and went off to Norfolk and had ten children and ran a large household . |
| 7 | Ever Ready , a battery maker , was losing market share to Duracell and made pre-tax profits of only £4.2m when Hanson bought it in 1981 . |
| 8 | Next day they had collected the rejuvenated Goblander , catching one of the rare buses to Colchester and taking all day about it . |
| 9 | And when Parliament eventually turned back the tide of opposition to Eyre and voted financial support to the former Governor , it was poetically appropriate that those who had been most vocal in their support for the Garotter 's Act — such as Mr Adderley and the rampant Colonel North — should be in the thick of it again , shouting their praise for Eyre 's loyalty to the Crown and his firm action that had saved a colony . |
| 10 | As the Government are allegedly concerned about the appalling human rights record , why do they sell frigates , aircraft , missiles and armoured cars to Indonesia and provide military training for Indonesian troops ? |
| 11 | He kept apologising to Nellie and swearing undying devotion to her . |
| 12 | The British bombardment on the Somme began on 24 June ( the infantry attack went in on 1 July ) and on that same day Falkenhayn stopped the massive flow of ammunition to Verdun and cancelled all reinforcements . |
| 13 | He is married to Andrea and has three children , Diane , Stephen and Sarah , and one grandson . |
| 14 | In 1889 he returned to England and enjoyed high society and sporting pursuits : there were shooting parties on his Norfolk estate , and he held his own private stand at Epsom . |
| 15 | Men who might have gone to England and earned good wages at the harvest now stayed at home and waited for relief work at one-third of those rates . |
| 16 | ‘ God knows , Brother , but I feel the only good I did today was to listen to Fitzormonde and help that child . |
| 17 | Alison wanted to talk , to negotiate , to exhibit her guilt feelings to Franca and receive some sort of absolution . |
| 18 | I get far more offended going to Goodison and hearing those animals doing gorilla impressions than anything else Ive ever heard . |
| 19 | When I returned to Washington and told this story , I received several accounts of severe reactions , including psychosis , among healthy individuals who had taken this drug . |
| 20 | He had gone to Peterborough and worked long hours in a canning factory only so that he could own this bike . |
| 21 | It all began when a group of musicians from Presteigne called Marengo went to Prague and met Czech fiddle player Honza . |
| 22 | Sometimes , if the lights had been left on , and I was unable to sleep , I 'd look across to Tom and feel great sorrow to see that fine man lying on the floor in a bleak underground room , with a rough blanket over his legs and cockroaches crawling over him as he slept . |
| 23 | He returned to Argentina and did menial jobs before putting himself through university in America . |
| 24 | After taking possession of the letter Pérez de Cuéllar returned to Geneva and opened diplomatic negotiations aimed at bringing the hostage crisis to an end . |
| 25 | so I went up to Streatham and did voluntary work in the maternity home |
| 26 | Marc turned to Sarella and lifted one eyebrow as if to convey some more significant meaning . |
| 27 | She was mated to Ajax and produced two litters , the first one , in 1938 , contained five dogs , four of which apparently went to India and Pakistan , for reasons which seem to be obscure . |
| 28 | Niki moved to Brabham and produced good results but no wonders there ; Hunt stayed with a McLaren in serious decline and was able to do even less in 1978 than in 1977 : he and team-mate Tambay totalled a mere 16 points between them . |
| 29 | If he had a small pond it used to be was two and sixpence that 's all they used to charge , but of course the other boats , now the boats that used to come from Rotterdam they would n't fill up there and they were Dutch boats , they would n't fill up in water out of the Rhine in Rotterdam , they always wait until they come to Ipswich and got fresh water . |
| 30 | At the same time it converts the colour coding frequencies from PAL to NTSC and combines 50 lines of each field to reduce the scanning pattern from 312.5 lines to 262.5 lines . |