Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as he was satisfied that all was well , he laid back his ears and set to work on the grass . |
| 2 | It was her second husband , David , who died 16 years ago , who persuaded her to adopt orphaned elephants to see if they could be nursed through their grief and restored to health . |
| 3 | She reflected on the reasons why people in modern society have difficulty in expressing and ritualizing grief and responding to loss and bereavement experienced by others . |
| 4 | To determine the origin of the cloned IRS-PCR products , amplification products were used as probes and hybridized to Sfi I partially digested GM06318 DNA ; all 7 products tested hybridized to a fragment between 600 and 670 kb in size and multiple smaller fragments ( data not shown ) . |
| 5 | Well , it was late — the simplest answer would be to drop the book on the floor , throw off his T-shirt and his jeans , and crawl under the covers and go to sleep . |
| 6 | I got into bed beside my sleeping daughter , peeled aside all but one of the covers and went to sleep . |
| 7 | We gave chase using extra boost and climbing to height of 16000 . |
| 8 | The Marquess was arrested at his flat in west London on Tuesday and taken to prison for failing to pay the maintenance arrears within the stipulated two weeks . |
| 9 | When asked to explain this the boy remarked ‘ my father called me an ear'ole [ a ‘ crawler ’ or conformist ] once , in the second year , for playing football and coming to school ’ . |
| 10 | The man , in his mid-forties , was rescued by fire fighters and taken to hospital , where he was treated for smoke inhalation . |
| 11 | Shut your eyes and go to sleep . |
| 12 | Close your eyes and go to sleep . |
| 13 | I closed my eyes and began to pole . |
| 14 | MARCUS DALY-FERRIERA , 27 , is a Royal Engineers corporal and came to pentathlon through the Army Triathlon in 1987 . |
| 15 | That this principle applies even to a person convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment seems to me to emerge clearly from the decision in this court in Reg. v. Board of Visitors of Hull Prison , Ex parte St. Germain [ 1979 ] Q.B . |
| 16 | Each of the four applicants , now the appellants , has been individually convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment . |
| 17 | On 13 December 1983 he was convicted of murder and sentenced to death . |
| 18 | If you wish to invite your Principal please apply for a complimentary ticket from the office should you do this please ensure that any V.I.P. you have invited is met , conducted to their seat and taken to tea and is generally made to feel welcome . |
| 19 | This is a valid tensor equation and reduces to eqn ( 1.2 ) in a frame in free fall , so that it satisfies the principle of generalized covariance . |
| 20 | The superior numbers of the Imperial army stood them in good stead : within a few minutes , Dara 's forces had broken through the rebels ' artillery and put to flight the infantry . |
| 21 | There is a tendency for analysts to add monitor and control to system models almost as an afterthought , just to meet the requirements of the formal model . |
| 22 | For nine years she was a postwoman in Berkshire and used to cycle 18 miles a day . |
| 23 | Tinnitus can interfere with concentration and add to fatigue . |
| 24 | And er I got involved on national registration and er , on one occasion , we were working , we 'd got a deadline and we were working through the weekend , and my wife came to pick me up at what she thought was a reasonable time , at one o'clock on Saturday , found she was given a cup of tea and set to work , and we finished , going home about midnight . . |
| 25 | After pouring the tea and talking to Yanto for five minutes about nothing in particular , she turned to her husband . |
| 26 | The value of the book was further enhanced by a bibliography which showed the breadth of the author 's research and brought to light many historical sources which had been ignored , forgotten or underestimated by previous writers . |
| 27 | The scrap was loaded into a narrow boat at the bottom of the incline and taken to North Kilworth for transshipment by rail . |
| 28 | Managing director Prabhdyal Sodhi told the hearing Dixon conspired to alert the health authority rather than go through the proper channels and complain to management . |
| 29 | He tried all sorts of subjects and approaches to photography and different camera formats and techniques as part of the course but doggedly stuck to his 35mm camera because of the portability , cheapness and speed of action . |
| 30 | He tried all sorts of subjects and approaches to photography and different camera formats and techniques as part of the course but doggedly stuck to his 35mm camera because of its portability , cheapness and speed of action . |