Example sentences of "and [verb] [noun sg] to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In 1774 he emigrated to America where he edited an influential newspaper and became friend to Benjamin Franklin , Thomas Jefferson and George Washington . |
| 2 | In addition Hickey served for some years as deputy to the sheriff of Calcutta and became clerk to Sir Henry Russell [ q.v. ] , ultimately chief justice of the Supreme Court . |
| 3 | Desiderius was well-educated in the law and became treasurer to Chlothar II ; he succeeded one brother , Syagrius , as governor of Marseilles , and subsequently he was elected bishop of Cahors in place of his other brother , Rusticus , who had been murdered . |
| 4 | His acrid and accusing farewell to London was Hugh Selwyn Mauberley ( 1920 ) . |
| 5 | He did and made love to Rebecca . |
| 6 | I am to be legitimated , and made heir to Duart . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ I did a parachute jump , abseiled the White Cliffs of Dover and rode tandem to Paris . |
| 8 | The gardener 's idiom is distinctive , and adds vigour to Mary Leapor 's poetry . |
| 9 | But within six months John was spotted by a Luton talent scout while playing in a county schools match and moved south to Kenilworth Road . |
| 10 | Their task was to take oaths of allegiance from the various semi-independent cities , and to encourage resistance to Milan . |
| 11 | They were all there on the last day , even down to the original.horse-drawn trams , rattling or gliding past in stately line-astern , a fleet from decades gone , past the Central Hotel and the ‘ Mal ’ , up Hope Street , and bidding farewell to Argyle Street under the gateway of the Hielan' Man 's Umbrella . |
| 12 | Designed jointly by SCOTVEC and the Scottish Consultative Council on the Curriculum ( SCCC ) , clusters articulate with SEB provision , and provide progression to Highers . |
| 13 | A month later he discharged himself and trudged south to London . |
| 14 | It is Wimbledon men 's finals day , and the television shows McEnroe beating Connors ; the score is two sets to none and match point to McEnroe in the third . |
| 15 | PRESIDENT Elias Hrawi has threatened to resign if he fails to topple General Michel Aoun , whom he accused of blocking his way to unite and bring peace to Lebanon . |
| 16 | PRESIDENT Elias Hrawi has threatened to resign if he fails to topple General Michel Aoun , whom he accused of blocking his way to unite and bring peace to Lebanon . |
| 17 | Or would it better to speak with Carl and Sam first — let them explain and give comfort to Ma ? |
| 18 | Could none be found to come back and give praise to God except this foreigner ? |
| 19 | The first meeting of 1886 was specially convened to pay tribute to the work of the late Mr. Lister Ives , Under Master since Coombes had left in 1862 , and to express sympathy to Mrs. Ives and her daughter . |
| 20 | From the Stac Polly car park , the road continues eastwards through scenes of mountain grandeur , skirting the lower slopes of Cul Beag and reaching the main road , now the A.835 , coming from Kylesku or Lairg and heading south to Ullapool , with retrospective views of Stac Polly until declining into Strath Kanaird and arriving on the coast at Ardmair Bay . |
| 21 | The first was a treaty incorporating the minimum of enforcement provisions to be accompanied by a separate section whereby as many FEC countries as possible would sign a treaty with each other and with Japan , the purpose being to prevent aggression and to afford protection to Japan . |
| 22 | And give warning to Dacre that if he led a force into Scotland hereafter , as reputedly planned , he would suffer at his house of Gilsland . |
| 23 | I believe what you believe , that God came down to Mary , who was a virgin , in the form of a dove — or was that to her mother , so that Mary could get pregnant and be an immaculate conception , which had to happen on account of how sex is so polluting , and give birth to Jesus ? |
| 24 | The ScaNet servers are based on a Cobra RISC processor — a MIPS Technologies Inc R3000-derived application-specific part developed using LSI Logic Corp 's Cobra service — and give access to TCP/IP , Local Area Transport and Open Systems Interconnection-based hosts without the use of gateways . |
| 25 | Schlieffen planned to leave his left wing in Alsace and Lorraine lightly manned , while an immensely strong right wing was to execute a rapid enveloping movement through Flanders and Picardy — ‘ brushing the Channel with their sleeves ’ — and lay siege to Paris from the west . |
| 26 | As Shiona grabbed her bag and bade farewell to Jake , then hurried round the front of the car to the station entrance , the little girl leaned against the window and waved . |
| 27 | Thus it was that Ira Dilworth paid tribute and bade farewell to Emily Carr with the borrowed lines from Thomas Hardy , and I am certain that none would object if I borrow them as my tribute to both . |
| 28 | To illustrate the point , and to suggest some possible choices , I shall pack a fictional bag for three very different trips that I have taken recently — a six-week winter trip to Nepal , including a trek to Everest Base Camp , a week 's backpacking in North Wales and a camping and birdwatching trip to New England during the Fall . |
| 29 | Soon after police arrived to carry out the order , violence spread , as students smashed and set fire to Mr Kamba 's Mercedes car , and police responded with tear gas and baton charges . |
| 30 | Read j : transfer into the Accumulator the contents of DBi , and set DF to O. Test i : if DFi is set to 1 , skip the following instruction . |