Example sentences of "and he [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.

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1 At the local cathedral grammar school he was exposed to the distinctly Protestant influence of the masters Anthony Rush [ q.v. ] and John Gresshop , and he proceeded to Oxford .
2 John had been moved to Norfolk and promoted to Corporal and he wrote to Anne nearly every day , loving letters which helped to make her grief for her mother more bearable .
3 That quickly brightened his spirits , and he wrote to Hanns :
4 But Hartington soon became alarmed at the plans to give increased powers to what he termed ‘ fanatical local authorities ’ , and he wrote to Rosebery asking him to withdraw support for the measures .
5 The decision to go north found the duke short of money and he wrote to Sir John Say for a loan of £100 to tide him over .
6 The decision to go north found the duke short of money and he wrote to Sir John Say for a loan of £100 to tide him over .
7 Now that the emergency was over , Sam felt the call of nature and he beckoned to Luke Rowe , a promising lad of twenty , to take the helm .
8 His mouth twisted and he began to thumb through the telephone directory , his patience apparently wavering .
9 The men came into the courtyard and he began to prance , just out of their reach .
10 Where he had torn the dress from her shoulders the gentle swell of one breast gave promise of the advent of rich womanhood and he longed to cup it in his hand so that its sweet warmth rested against his own flesh .
11 Russell had given up everything and he came to France , where he had friends .
12 erm and he was released and he came to Harlow and we meet him and that was , that was very good , erm , but we have n't had one like that , you know for a long time .
13 He had his living to make and he came to Port Talbot to make it as a teacher .
14 Nonetheless , he had proved he could stay up with the leaders , and he went to South Africa in March in good spirits .
15 Edmund McCarten was born in Millom on 30th March , 1912 and he went to school in Millom until the age of 14 when he transferred to the seminary at Ushaw and there studied for the priesthood .
16 After qualifying as an apothecary in 1832 , he was appointed medical officer to the General Hospital in Bath , where he spent three years before his health broke down and he went to London for an operation .
17 And Edward abdicated , and he went to Paris , France .
18 ‘ King Robert never rebuilt it fully after the English wrecked it and he went to Lochmaben and Turnberry .
19 After lunch he formed the Italian habit of taking a siesta and he went to bed early .
20 And he went to bed half past two .
21 He was a young regular officer , Brigade of Guards , at the start of the war , and he went to France with the Expeditionary Force .
22 And for soon after that me father had to give up the mine be because of his health and he went to work at the depot er were the bus depot and he worked in the battery house where they made all the batteries up , charged the batteries for the buses , looked after the electrical side there was electrician , he were n't , me father were n't electrician but he was working with electrician but his main job was charging the batteries , putting them on in groups in the , in the er battery house and charging house , to keep all the batteries charged up for all the buses petrol buses tr and trolley buses .
23 There were punks and Sikhs and he went to work with a postman who was not a man at all , but a woman .
24 Mandy was telling us , you know , about one of her friends she erm her husband was very high up in a company and he went to work one day and they called him in the office and says right , you ai n't got a job !
25 And he went to Rugby !
26 And he went to Plessey and asked Plessey if he could implement these little functions on micro circuits .
27 But Stanley Baldwin was sent to Hawtrey 's , near Slough , which was almost exclusively an Eton preparatory school , although there followed a not wholly explained change of plan and he went to Harrow in 1881 .
28 Mind you the title was a bit funny because it did n't Almost an Angel but if he died and he went to heaven , then he must have been an angel but came back down , he 's still an angel .
29 And he went to pieces ? ’
30 He worked at Underwood Pit when they were came to this district and then they came into the Newthorpe Common district and er and then er we moved from Newthorpe Common and he went to Williamthorpe for a short while , only from erm probably eighteen months to two years , that 's as much as did there .
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