Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | One µg of mRNA was reverse transcribed using M-MLV RT and subjected to PCR using the following internal primer pairs : ( 1 ) AD13/AD15 , ( 2 ) AD13/8E2 ( 3 ) AD15/3200 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Each of the four applicants , now the appellants , has been individually convicted of murder and sentenced to life imprisonment . |
| 5 | On 13 December 1983 he was convicted of murder and sentenced to death . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | They were shown a video about the department and introduced to members of the team who are setting up the service . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The scrap was loaded into a narrow boat at the bottom of the incline and taken to North Kilworth for transshipment by rail . |
| 11 | One of the young men at the rear of the little procession tugged at his rein and made to wheel and ride out of the wood . |
| 12 | Restraint covenants agreed to in respect of the merged firm will be unenforceable unless some part of the business can be properly regarded as continuing the merged practice and entitled to protection . |
| 13 | A woman aged about 35 was cut free from one car and taken to hospital with various injuries . |
| 14 | Subsequently , the box was collected from the Pump-house and returned to Appleby Hall where it was returned to its place among the ruins . |
| 15 | She lay propped up in pain and wondered when it was she had begun to loathe her body — she who had always been so proud of her figure and liked to pirouette in front of the glass after stepping from her clothes , admiring the slim smoothness of her thighs , the trim concavity of her belly , the neatness of her breasts , her skin with the sculptured texture of marble , her neck slender as the stem of a wineglass , and the bound-up hair in which fire lurked and leaped . |
| 16 | He was tied to the back of a horse and taken to Edinburgh , where he was tried , convicted and hanged . |
| 17 | It remained there in its watery grave for 44 years , until it was raised from the Loch and brought to Brooklands in 1985 . |
| 18 | Afterwards , however , Pond , himself a Baptist and used to Beecher 's Plymouth Church , described the congregation as ‘ a very devout crowd of worshippers who entered into the spirit of the occasion and did worship the Lord and Mr Spurgeon with tremendous intensity ’ . |
| 19 | The man , who was soaked in blood , was stretchered to a waiting ambulance and taken to Darlington Memorial Hospital . |
| 20 | ‘ AN upsurge in Russian naval activity has mystified Western intelligence and led to speculation that ships and submarines have been sent to sea to prevent them causing trouble at home … the increased activity coincides with a statement by the navy 's chief , Admiral Vladimir Chernavin , detailing ambitious — and expensive — plans for powerful aircraft battle groups able to operate independently anywhere in the world . |
| 21 | When the man goes to a club , the hearer assumes that the ‘ club ’ is in the same town , that the man has not caught an aeroplane and flown to Las Vegas . |
| 22 | She was suffering amnesia and taken to Darlington Memorial Hospital . |
| 23 | Here Corbett began to question any respectable citizen on the whereabouts of the Lord Bruce 's household and described to Ranulf the insignia of Bruce 's retinue in the hope that his sharp-eyed servant might discover someone wearing this livery . |
| 24 | turned to the question of knowledge in the creditor of undue influence and referred to Bainbrigge v. Browne , 18 Ch.D. 188 and the classic statement of the law by Fry J. , at pp. 196–197 : |
| 25 | Earlier , a draft formula prepared by a 26-party committee and submitted to conference participants on Aug. 2 had envisaged , as minimum conditions for elections , ( i ) the immediate lifting of the state of siege ; ( ii ) the release of political detainees ; and ( iii ) the creation of a consultative mechanism between the government and political parties . |
| 26 | Klaus Barbie , 77 , the Gestapo commander in Lyon in 1942-44 , who was convicted of crimes against humanity and sentenced to life imprisonment by a French court in 1987 [ see p. 35417 ] , died in a prison hospital in Lyon on Sept. 25 ; he was cremated and his ashes were flown to Austria … |
| 27 | The men at the ramparts had often tried in vain to tempt one of the stray artillery bullocks near enough to capture it , but at long last , towards the end of the first week of September , an old horse was captured at the banqueting hall and put to death . |
| 28 | At a recent NRA seminar for interested parties , speakers from the NRA brought out the key points of the plan and explained to delegates what the scheme is all about ( Chem . |
| 29 | Osbern has his father killed by a lowly mob and thrown to birds and wild animals ; more reliable sources do not mention him again . |
| 30 | The most significant sites in North Shields are Chirton Industrial Estate , originally comprising 110 acres , which was acquired by the council and transferred to North East Trading Estates , and Tyne Tunnel Industrial Estate , comprising 132 acres bought from the Duke of Northumberland in the mid-1960s by Property Security Investment Trust Ltd . |