Example sentences of "and [vb past] [noun sg] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amidst the usual panic that surrounds such occasions , I tried to keep calm and asked Mother to hand me the landing net . |
| 2 | In 1774 he emigrated to America where he edited an influential newspaper and became friend to Benjamin Franklin , Thomas Jefferson and George Washington . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 9 | A month later he discharged himself and trudged south to London . |
| 10 | As so many times before , Vologsky carne to the end of the mental games he played with himself , dismissed the last hopeful excuse for his rejection and came face to face with the lonely bitterness of reality . |
| 11 | Then she turned away and came face to face with Emelda Linley . |
| 12 | Returning the chisel to the bench , she turned to leave and came face to face with Leo 's sister . |
| 13 | Then he blundered into the turning he wanted , limped down it and came face to face with the blank grey door leading into the four Turkey Pens . |
| 14 | And came nose to nose with the tortoiseshell . |
| 15 | Over 44 months 157 patients ( 96 boys ) who had suffered one or more events out of hospital and received mouth to mouth resuscitation were referred for clinical management to our department at the Royal Brompton Hospital . |
| 16 | Another Lassus pupil at Munich , Leonhard Lechner ( c. 1553–1606 ) , later a convert to Protestantism , began his career with Latin church music in his master 's style , composed a great tri-choral , 24-part epithalamium , ‘ Quid chaos ’ ( 1582 ) in the Venetian manner , and bade farewell to life in an extraordinary set of fifteen Spruche von Leben und Tod — the dramatic power and profound emotion of which , however , he had already anticipated in ‘ O Tod , du bist ein bittre Gallen ’ , one of his Newe teutsche Lieder ( Nuremberg , 1582 ) . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Downward pressure on fees , together with a decline in the property market and escalating overheads , had driven some firms to the edge of bankruptcy and tempted solicitor to theft . |
| 20 | Next day he had a better idea , and sent word to Mr Shankar that he would have to go instead . |
| 21 | Oxford had fled into exile in 1471 but was arrested after his involvement in the unrest of 1473 and sent prisoner to Hammes , one of the Calais fortresses , where he remained until his escape in 1484 . |
| 22 | Oxford had fled into exile in 1471 but was arrested after his involvement in the unrest of 1473 and sent prisoner to Hammes , one of the Calais fortresses , where he remained until his escape in 1484 . |
| 23 | The green men in their cloaks of leaves and branches then discovered them , and came down to the beach and circled Dulé and his companions where they lay prone , and shook their fronds and squatted on their haunches and kicked their legs and tossed their heads and slapped palm to thigh , in order to rally them and send them off again ; pouring spirits and water into their faces to invigorate them , beating out a rhythm with their feet . |
| 24 | Then they took the men 's letters and diaries , and went north to Cape Evans again . |
| 25 | Local girls dressed in green and yellow ballet skirts performed dances and sang praise to Saddam . |
| 26 | He was now able to pursue his interest in book illustration and gave work to Edward Bawden , Robert Medley , Humphrey Spender , Edward Burra , Ayrton , Vaughan and Searle among others . |
| 27 | The Sotheby sale in 1936 made the contents of Newton 's Portsmouth papers much better known and gave rise to Lord Keynes 's famous description of Newton as the ‘ last of the magicians ’ . |
| 28 | As the struggle progressed he came to see the inadequacies of the term and realized that it was too constricted in its meaning and gave rise to confusion and misunderstanding . |
| 29 | Tudor England was no cultured and sophisticated Italian state , but the country did feel the influence of the humanists and gave hospitality to Erasmus . |
| 30 | These infants died because their mothers could not purchase adequate food and gave birth to babies under the viable weight threshold . |