Example sentences of "[noun] and [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The doctor , still chatting away , put her stethoscope in her ears and listened to Phoebe 's chest and heart , then had her sit up and tapped her back . |
2 | 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 ) . |
3 | Four years later he left the house of William Pickering and moved to Cable Street , Liverpool . |
4 | Duncan Smith , prosecuting , said the two men were unhappy with the business deal and went to Mr Hawthorne 's home with a crowbar and a handgun . |
5 | I got into bed beside my sleeping daughter , peeled aside all but one of the covers and went to sleep . |
6 | Captain Faulknor was still concerned about the ship 's speed and said to Jenking , ‘ that it would be better to stand out to sea for the night . ’ |
7 | One of the grown-ups from along the street noticed the brooch and said to Gloria , ‘ You 're in luck ! |
8 | I closed my eyes and began to pole . |
9 | MARCUS DALY-FERRIERA , 27 , is a Royal Engineers corporal and came to pentathlon through the Army Triathlon in 1987 . |
10 | The woman paused before getting into the driving seat and said to Ward in near-perfect English , ‘ I think you 're a bloody fool , but if you 're determined to press on , I suggest you have a word with Alberto Fernandez when you get to Tolambo . |
11 | Joseph Thomas , engineer , was born in Roche and came to Looe to retire after a distinguished career . |
12 | But after a further month 's reflection she changed her mind and wrote to Moira that it was up to her to do something about ‘ the incompetence of your staff at Harriet Street [ which ] is now causing BA and myself sleepless nights ’ . |
13 | Pebbles stretched out her neck and responded to Eddery 's exhortations with the utmost gameness to go a length up . |
14 | After a while , the Caterpillar took the pipe out of its mouth and said to Alice in a slow , sleepy voice , ‘ Who are you ? ’ |
15 | I began to feel something sharp coming through the roof of my mouth and went to Mr Grover , who X-rayed me and showed me a pretty picture of that fateful root still there despite the hammer and chisel . |
16 | So I usually sipped spicy tea and listened to records all night . |
17 | 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 . . |
18 | He took the instrument and listened to Sandy 's heart for what seemed a long time . |
19 | No biopsy was performed in the other cases but the lung opacity on the chest x ray or computed tomogram had the same macroscopic aspect as in the cases of proved lung lymphoma and responded to chemotherapy as well as the gastric lesion . |
20 | They borrowed a car and drove to Cornwall , though between the two of them they were virtually penniless and had to make do with beans on brown bread for the entire weekend . |
21 | Mrs Burford , who undertook one year of an A level art course at Darlington Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College and went to Hummersknott School , mostly paints pets and wildlife . |
22 | Hamnett was educated at Cheltenham Ladies College and went to St Martin 's School of Art to study fashion design in 1965 ; she made an indelible impression there . |
23 | In the morning he picked up the van in Hilderbridge and drove to Jackley the long way round through Byss , having a newly upholstered chaise longue to deliver before he made the Jackley collection . |
24 | They vowed his form would improve if he quit Arsenal and returned to Glasgow . |
25 | At least 27 people were said to have been massacred on a squatter site at Swaniesville near Johannesburg on May 12 by Zulu attackers from a nearby hostel , armed with spears and said to number around 1,000 . |
26 | She shrugged her slender shoulders and submitted to fate . |
27 | ‘ You borrowed a horse from the tavern stables and went to Woodstock with the news . ’ |
28 | She stared uneasily at the envelope , at the black , firm hand , at the French stamp , and then she put out the light and went to bed . |
29 | How could they stick to it , though , once they were under a sergeant-major , a trained bully , lashed to a gun carriage and flogged to pieces ? |
30 | He says his father wrote it a script and went to London to record it , but he was rather worried because he was a big smoker and he had to keep clearing his throat . |