Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [vb pp] to [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 In the heart of the press one or two died of suffocation , and many were ridden down and crushed to death under the horses ' feet .
2 He was on the run for forty-three days , sheltering for part of the time in a cornfield , being fed occasionally by sympathetic French farmers , but was hunted down and sent to captivity in Belgium .
3 Although more representative of the whole unemployed population than the After Redundancy study , research on unemployment alone is insufficient to judge the specific impact of redundancy , especially on older workers — many of whom do not choose to declare themselves as unemployed , so register only while entitled to unemployment benefit — and the experience of economic insecurity following relatively secure employment .
4 Even Father had all but stood to attention at the very mention of the pucca angrez saab .
5 The discrepancy was believed to be due to the fact that a proportion of the PCBs evaporate naturally when exposed to air as part of the treatment process .
6 Whether platelet endo-peroxides have a proaggregatory role in their own right or only when converted to thromboxane A 2 has been the subject of many studies ( Bunting et al , 1983 ) .
7 Finally , it assumes that self development needs to be done deliberately rather than left to chance .
8 He promoted county petitions supporting the vote of no addresses and the trial of Charles I. But although named to the high court of justice in January 1649 , he stayed away and returned to Parliament only after the king 's execution .
9 My mother always told me to put on clean underwear in case I got knocked over and taken to hospital , but the possibility that someone 's drunken wife might decide to revenge herself on her husband by going down on me was not a scenario we had ever discussed .
10 ‘ He decided to carry on and returned to training four weeks ago .
11 He was removed quickly and taken to hospital to have ten stitches in an ear so badly lacerated that the cartilage was exposed .
12 Lillywhite starts today 's final stage 20 seconds ahead of young Norwegian rider Ole Simensen who was in a crash yesterday and taken to hospital for attention to minor injuries .
13 A spokesman for Cleveland police said the men were arrested after a joint operation with Tyneside police early yesterday and brought to Teesside for questioning .
14 A warm welcome awaits anyone who wishes to visit Latvia and it seems that a number of aircraft will now be dusted off and returned to flight .
15 I want him sent home and put to bed feeling good so that when he gets to me in the mornings , he 's feeling good ’ .
16 And these days they can look more attractive than ever when matched to hardwood window frames and internal doors .
17 To his everlasting credit , Ritchie , instead of having the intruder thrown out , read it through carefully and promised to hand it personally to Auchinleck .
18 We went in December and most of the indigenous population had curled up and gone to sleep .
19 Any road , they crept off to Bury one weekend — it was where his mam lived , where he 'd been brought up and gone to school .
20 He got the sack , cos he got up and left his job overslept and annoyed erm Rachael because she woke him up twice and said come on you 've got to go to work , he said alright then , she , she went back to bed thinking he 'd get up and of course he were still laying in bed , I woke him up at five to eleven , said come on you 're an hour late , but when he got down there they said no it 's no good you 've got the sack , and he said well it 's your own fault then cos you were woke up twice by Rachael at nine o'clock , he had n't , he could have got up and gone to work , just idle we met him twice , it really upset him
21 A Rota has been drawn up and issued to committee members for calling duties at the bingo sessions .
22 A Rota has been drawn up and issued to committee members for calling duties at the bingo sessions .
23 However , experts in the smoking cessation field pointed out that compared to smoking , nicotine replacements such as gum were much safer .
24 If there are two parties each putting forward programmes which they are pledged to carry out if elected to government , and which they are able to carry out because they possess sufficient internal cohesion , then the electorate in choosing a programme ( and a programme at that which has been drawn up to appeal to their interests ) mandates a party to carry out its programme and holds the party accountable for its adequate fulfillment at the next election .
25 Then he 'd got some blankets out of the chests under the bunks at the end of the boat , turned off the torch he 'd found in another cupboard , stretched himself out and gone to sleep .
26 He and a colleague were dug out and taken to hospital in the horse , drawn ambulance .
27 Although the receiver part of the ICOM set worked perfectly when tuned to ground stations over 30nm away , the transmitter seemed to be at the extremity of its practical range at about 12- 15nm , almost regardless of height .
28 In contrast , dry impervious surfaces , particularly if exposed to sunlight , are lethal to larvae within a day or so .
29 Such systems as PANKEY have development potential , both as high-level identification aids for professional taxonomists , and for use by visitors , particularly if linked to image databases .
30 From this , we conclude that residues 1-193 of c-Jun are not recognised effectively by the DNA-PK even when tethered to DNA .
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