Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [vb pp] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man , in his mid-forties , was rescued by fire fighters and taken to hospital , where he was treated for smoke inhalation . |
| 2 | A lot of young agents and bookers come from colleges where they have started as social secretaries and begun to book bands . |
| 3 | The sons of Pinner , the true sons , are groomed in the local prep schools and dispatched to Merchant Taylors in Northwood for their private education . |
| 4 | The student , Mark Edwards , visited 20 companies and talked to university scientists and administrators . |
| 5 | He and Massingham unclasped their seat belts and clambered to earth . |
| 6 | They were convicted of criminal offences and sentenced to death in recent months , with no right of appeal , by a military court set up in April 1991 . |
| 7 | They paddled out into the middle of a large convoy that was anchored there , attached the mines and returned to Kabrit for breakfast . |
| 8 | Deckard is employed by the police as a bounty hunter , paid to hunt down and ‘ retire ’ ( or kill ) renegade androids who have escaped from off-world planets and returned to Earth posing as humans . |
| 9 | Ordinary people regularly broke the rules and resorted to bribery if they could get away with it to obtain essentials or medical care , but then their corruption was a sign of independence asserted against the system , whereas Manescu 's was typical of a deep inner decay of the system . |
| 10 | Peck quotes a tradition that these bull runnings began in the reign of Queen Mary ‘ in imitation of the Protestants who were hem 'd in with Faggots and burnt to Death ’ . |
| 11 | On February 11 this year , after a two-week trial , Iain was found guilty on all counts and sentenced to detention for life . |
| 12 | Coal from the valleys is used in furnaces and converted to electricity in four power stations in the area . |
| 13 | If traders are arrested for breaking regulations and taken to court it 's highly unlikely they will be sent to prison and fines are usually very low . |
| 14 | On his way back to the Incident Room Wycliffe had to weave a way through milling crowds who had deserted the beaches and taken to window shopping . |
| 15 | It has been pointed out by Dr Baugh that if rising levels of poor-relief expenditure are expressed in per capita terms and related to wheat prices , the real level of poor-relief spending was fairly constant from the early 1790s to 1814 . |
| 16 | Candice , bleeding and terrified , was helped home by neighbours and taken to hospital by ambulance . |
| 17 | One training method will be based on a model of writing according to which pre-conceived meanings are simply translated into words and sentences and transferred to paper . |
| 18 | DNA samples were electrophoresed on agarose gels and transferred to nylon membranes ( Hybond N+ , Amersham ) . |
| 19 | Abrasive pads : These are random nylon fibres coated with adhesive to which abrasive particles are bonded with the whole being compressed into sheets and cut to size . |
| 20 | Fluctuating or flexible exchange rates have , perhaps , unsettled financial markets and contributed to world trade and investment problems . |
| 21 | In 799 Ealdorman Moll , whose name may have family associations , was killed by the urgent orders of King Eardwulf ; and Ealhmund , said by some to have been a son of King Alhred , was seized by Eardwulf 's men and put to death in 800 . |
| 22 | Eight-year-old Gerald pauses mid-way through extracting the marrow from a colobus bone with a short stick ( held between thumb and forefinger ) , which he had first stripped of leaves and broken to length . |
| 23 | Everybody stopped reading the music papers and switched to Smash Hits . |
| 24 | Their report , ‘ Quality in Traditional Housing ’ , indicated that half the faults concerned the external walls , roofs , windows and doors and related to durability and performance . |
| 25 | Colin Henry , 45 , of Torwood Gardens Road , Torquay , was cut from the wreckage by firemen and taken to hospital with 16 passengers , all from Maghull , Liverpool , who were slightly injured . |