Example sentences of "[adj] and [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was warm and sprang to life immediately . |
| 2 | Hatch resigned his appointment in 1892 and went to work as a mining engineer in Johannesburg . |
| 3 | Norm would sit watching TV , she would glance up at it and back at her book , but he tired early and went to bed . |
| 4 | He retired in the early 70s and emigrated to Auckland , N.Z. in 1977 . |
| 5 | Hodge recognised that his position had become untenable and wrote to MacArthur proposing that he be replaced within six to eight weeks . |
| 6 | In July 1993 I left St Aidans in year 10 and moved to Suffolk . |
| 7 | Father and son , he reported , kissed each other as usual and went to sleep in their separate bivouacs . |
| 8 | I conceded to that and went to university , and of course your whole life changes then . |
| 9 | I ran away from that and went to Glasgow , caused trouble down there . |
| 10 | I 'll make sure that er , I 've read that and talked to Jenny in time for the next meeting so we know where we stand . |
| 11 | David Wright was born in South Africa in 1920 and came to England as a teenager . |
| 12 | " So I pretended to be ill and went to bed . |
| 13 | Many years ago , supermarket bread acquired a reputation which has proved almost impossible to shake off ; any colour you like as long as it is white , and probably thin sliced and steamed to boot . |
| 14 | I got married to an Australian and emigrated to Australia in December 1987 and feeling the need for an Australian qualification enrolled for a Bachelor of Business degree course at a local university . |
| 15 | After ten years e rented and moved to Astley Hall , near Stourport , a larger and older stone house with Dutch gables and a wide , soft view across the broken Worcestershire countryside . |
| 16 | Peckham graduated from Cambridge in 1960 and went to University College Hospital in London , where he worked with Gwen Hilton . |
| 17 | Reluctantly Rain left and drove to Cimiez and the museum . |
| 18 | The couple were married in 1964 and moved to Maghull , before settling in Formby where Mr Ryder set up as a pharmacist and postmaster . |
| 19 | We will end the neglect that has allowed some former patients to end up sleeping rough and led to others being placed on remand . |
| 20 | In 1834 , the pseudonymous Paul Pry observed of Coleman , now ‘ stricken with years ’ , that ‘ Time has laid his temples bare And turned to white his once dark hair . ’ |
| 21 | After Charles V died in 1558 , Torriano entered the service of his son Philip II and moved to Toledo , where he died in 1585 . |
| 22 | Largely as a result of machinations and pressure by the king of France , the Order of Knights Templar was subjected to papal scrutiny in 1308 and condemned to dissolution in 1312 . |
| 23 | He left the Empress Works in 1911 and went to work for Norman Crossland , as mechanic in charge . |
| 24 | A recent offender makes its intentions of arousing morbid curiosity perfectly clear on its front cover , proclaiming ‘ 30,000 people burned , boiled and suffocated to death ’ , ‘ A whole thriving city levelled to the ground in seconds ’ , and ‘ The world best-selling account of one day when the earth exploded ’ . |
| 25 | Exports of electronics from this country in 1979 amounted to £2.7 billion and rose to £13.6 billion in 1990 , the last full year for which I have the figures . |
| 26 | Seeing there are three of you , it would make sense if I made a fourth and helped to leg . ’ |
| 27 | Roland joined the DLI in 1912 and went to France in September 1914 with the second battalion of the tank regiment . |
| 28 | Arnulf completed his education in 1136 and travelled to England to serve the court of King Stephen . |
| 29 | His companion was the same man grown older and turned to stone . |
| 30 | He left home at the age of ten and went to London , then to Stamford , where he became apprentice to a draper and educated himself in his spare time . |