Example sentences of "[verb] and [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I spent a great deal of time with housemasters ( see Chapter 22 ) and hence I became interested in the kinds of problems they encountered and began to follow-up the children I saw regularly in their offices . |
| 2 | Whilst on their way a blizzard struck and some were trapped and froze to death . |
| 3 | Over great periods of time , the peat is compressed and turned to coal . |
| 4 | The old road to Tomdoun leaves here but is gated and closed to traffic . |
| 5 | When Simon stopped and began to bombard him with questions about home , Quinn had a chance to have a look at the youth . |
| 6 | about three years ago he uprooted and went to Guildford . |
| 7 | Nothing was left to the imagination as the sexy models Cookie and Polly danced , pouted and preened to Apache 's latest hits . |
| 8 | Backpackers stabbed and shot to death |
| 9 | The Queen stopped shouting and said to Alice , ‘ Have you seen the Mock Turtle yet ? ’ |
| 10 | Harte was freed and flew to Ireland , where he was arrested on arrival in Dublin . |
| 11 | A heap of rags in the corner suddenly stirred and came to life and Taplow , loaded with chains , got to his feet . |
| 12 | On May 30 , it was reported that two of the missing witnesses in the trial had been kidnapped and smuggled to Zambia where one of them , Gabriel Pelo Mekgwe , was being held by ANC activists , and the other , Katiza Cebekhulu , was in prison . |
| 13 | On his way out of the house , the lawyer stopped and spoke to Poole . |
| 14 | And , if I failed and returned to England I would hang . |
| 15 | Pennethorne submitted four alternative schemes with costs on 31st August , 1855 , which were then revised and resubmitted to Hall on 14th September , when one scheme was chosen . |
| 16 | A year later he bought a Lea-Francis — the Flying Standard had collapsed — then a Mark 1O Jaguar , then a Cadillac , then the red MG which he never sold and took to Switzerland . |
| 17 | However 384 , 387 and 397 failed their annual inspections on 12 October 1951 and on 9 January 1952 , the remainder were withdrawn and moved to Penhall Road scrap yard to meet their fate . |
| 18 | In 1666 Mercator made and presented to Charles II a marine chronometer that ‘ showed the inequality of the sun 's motion from the apparent motion ’ ( John Aubrey , q.v . ) . |
| 19 | At the door he turned and spoke to Newman . |
| 20 | In 798 he suggested to Pope Leo that the province of Canterbury be reconstituted and moved to London — a Mercian city . |
| 21 | He pulled his wings back for speed , leaned into the wind to gain maximum drive and stooped down upon them , the air thunderous in his wings as , with talons thrust forward , he thumped the first straight to its death among the wet beach rocks and tore at the other viciously before it squawked and fled to safety in the shadows of the cliff . |
| 22 | Alfie Hall , 44 , telephoned and wrote to Lloyds Bank asking them to check the mystery money . |
| 23 | Benstede sighed and gestured to Corbett to sit down while he slumped , head on hand , on a stool near the table . |
| 24 | A leading member of the Medellín drug cartel , Fabio Ochoa , wanted by the United States authorities for drug trafficking offences and the murder of an agent of the American Drug Enforcement Agency ( DEA ) , surrendered on Dec. 19 in what was seen as a vindication of the policy of President César Gaviria Trujillo , who had adopted legal and political methods rather than the previous military offensive against the drug cartels [ see p. 37772 for October proposals ] ; on Dec. 17 the government had said that it would waive extradition to the USA and reduce prison terms for those traffickers who surrendered and confessed to crimes . |
| 25 | Carter nodded and turned to Steiner . |
| 26 | Nigger flushed , ‘ I was , ’ he replied and explained to Terry the reason for his incarceration . |
| 27 | Escaped and fled to Amsterdam . ’ |
| 28 | A half mile section reclaimed by volunteers will then be flooded and opened to pleasure craft . |
| 29 | As I approached the animal 's rear end he laid back his ears , whickered and began to caper around . |
| 30 | The mist had cleared , and to the north-east the Lots Road Power Station had discharged from its four majestic chimneys long plumes of white pearly smoke which slowly drooped and turned to dun . |