Example sentences of "and it [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it fell to bits . |
| 2 | Barton failed to clear and it fell to Preece , who fired in his third goal of the season . |
| 3 | ‘ In those days the boys went into the church , the army , and so on down the family , and it fell to Charlie to go to the colonies . |
| 4 | However the good financial years had ended , and it fell to Franklin to break the bad news that Blackpool 's trams and buses would actually make a loss in 1954–5 . |
| 5 | Customs officers substituted the drugs with another substance as the consignment arrived and it continued to Scott 's house where he was arrested . |
| 6 | It went and it sent to sooth |
| 7 | The jet was sleek , even more luxurious than the limousine — and it belonged to Nicolo . |
| 8 | And here 's the record A Hundred Children do n't forget the er the C D By Request it 's it 's just out and it got to number one this morning in the video charts . |
| 9 | ‘ I felt I did everything right , like the simple things of making the right contact , but I was striking it into the wind and it seemed to tail off at the last minute . ’ |
| 10 | And it seemed to Dalgliesh an ironic twist of fate that it should be he , whom Berowne had shown a disposition to trust , who should now be travelling to begin that inexorable process of violation . |
| 11 | ‘ Did you enjoy seeing your father 's studio ? ’ she suddenly asked and it seemed to Jenna that not only did Alain stiffen alarmingly but Marguerite appeared to ice over . |
| 12 | A smile had formed on his lips , and it seemed to Jessica to be a rueful one . |
| 13 | As they surrounded him , eyes red-rimmed and faces glistening from the heat of the flames , their whooping cries added to the pandemonium and it seemed to Owen as if he had already died and retribution for the sins of his life was about to be exacted by Satan 's minions . |
| 14 | I do n't know where the name came from it , it , it 's , it 's , it 's simple and it seemed to work erm |
| 15 | ‘ The Time Travellers took one of them , ’ said Dierdriu , and it seemed to Fergus that an old , never-quite-healed agony was in her voice now . |
| 16 | The word came from her with sudden and frightening force and it seemed to Creggan as if it was a burden he would carry always in this place . |
| 17 | ‘ Yes , ’ said Fael-Inis , and it seemed to Taliesin that he watched Fergus very intently now . |
| 18 | Erm and various people like that you see and it seemed to sort of you you went up the scale . |
| 19 | Du Camp records his friend 's dismay at the book 's historical misfortune : a year after publication came the Franco-Prussian war , and it seemed to Gustave that the invasion and the débâcle at Sedan would have provided a grand , public and irrebuttable conclusion to a novel which set out to trace the moral failure of a generation . |
| 20 | The Ferret was never happy when anyone other than himself was examining a scene of crime and it seemed to Dalgliesh that his impatience to get on with the job came through the wall as a palpable force . |
| 21 | And it seemed to Tom , at any rate , that not everybody was best pleased by the election . |
| 22 | The group , obviously delighted at having someone new in their midst , constantly called her name and it seemed to Rachel that every one of them wanted to throw the ball to her while she , infected by their enthusiasm , was only too happy to join in . |
| 23 | It was not a position anyone could maintain comfortably for long , and it seemed to Clare that he was deliberately refraining from lying down beside her . |
| 24 | Then the alley curved sharply , first one way and then the other , and it seemed to Frankie that he would be trapped in that sinister place for ever . |
| 25 | They had enjoyed a happy day and it seemed to Carrie that Seb had noticed her , really noticed her , as a young woman for the very first time . |
| 26 | Then , he wrote a West End musical based on his aunt 's Remembering Judi and it transferred to Broadway , with Nina Kenyon making an impressive singing debut in her original role , finally outgrossing everything written by Andrew Lloyd Webber . |
| 27 | Needless to say , an appeal took place in the summer of 1991 and it came to light that although the Sharmas had been entitled to take Sophie and Robbie , they had never done so . |
| 28 | We had it scanned and it came to light the morning after the race . |
| 29 | Mother watched in horror as the fly fell from its mouth and it swam to freedom . |
| 30 | As he handed her one of the glasses their eyes met briefly , and it occurred to Lisa , for just a fleeting instant , that he was feeling almost as nervous as she was . |