Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I was two days late in getting onshore and just got to London on time . |
| 32 | It is all very well to say that the production of a new rose plant is a skilled job and best left to specialists , but that takes little account of the satisfaction to be derived and enjoyed by trying something difficult , and being successful . |
| 33 | The Russians were interested in and finally converted to Christianity at the end of the tenth century and from this time onwards their ecclesiastical architecture was based on that of Constantinople while the churches were , in many cases , built and decorated by Byzantine craftsmen . |
| 34 | In the novel itself we meet the Russian people , the folk , only once , and then as inflictors of suffering , in Raskolnikov 's half-dream ( which is also half-memory ) of a little mare being tortured and finally clubbed to death by drunken peasants . |
| 35 | Omitting to tell his wife , he personally assumed financial responsibility for up to £11,000 and it was not until the house arrived at Wembley in March 1924 that he recovered the £6,300 that he had spent , and finally admitted to Lady Emily that he had been ‘ rather fearful of death before repayment as it would have hit me badly ! ’ |
| 36 | After being rescued , Troy had decided to stay on the ship and work as a sailor , but he was not happy with this travelling life , and finally returned to England . |
| 37 | Plenty of mysteries have lasted for centuries and finally yielded to explanation . |
| 38 | Sailing with about 50 men in mid-October , Ormonde had an uneventful passage from Normandy to Torbay , but failed to see any signs of a rising there and thereupon returned to St Malo . |
| 39 | It was neat , colourful , disciplined and totally geared to tourism . |
| 40 | We am two Belgian girls , brilliant and totally addicted to Elvis Costello , Talking Heads and ourselves . |
| 41 | De Gaulle engineered a majority for himself on the CFLN and promptly objected to Giraud 's claim to combine the functions of Commander-in-Chief with the co-presidency . |
| 42 | He began to write verses and at the age of seventeen , in sending a sonnet to his mother , declared his resolution that ‘ My poor abilities in poetry shall be all and ever consecrated to God 's glory . ’ |
| 43 | ‘ Wires had been ripped from the wall and deliberately attached to metal furniture in the barricades , ’ he said . |
| 44 | 51 Cr-labelled T cells and recombinant human MIP-1 β ( from M. Tsang ) were added to the plates , settled at 4°C for 60min and rapidly warmed to 37°C for 15min , after which non-adherent cells were washed off . |
| 45 | And still chuffed to bits to have been asked . |
| 46 | As time went on , Finch found himself more and more attached to bed . |
| 47 | The real matter is in fact that the vast majority of children in this country are growing up in a secularist culture which rules out religion altogether , and that those within faith communities are living in a world in which their faiths will be more and more subjected to secularist interrogation . |
| 48 | Investment in canals and inland waterways peaked at around £1 million per annum in the canal mania of the 1790s , while outlay on the steady expansion and improvement of turnpiked roads averaged half a million pounds between 1760 and 1810 and thereafter doubled to £1 million . |
| 49 | In a remnant of old forest I came on some grazing deer and quickly dropped to ground and crawled in under a small bank where I was able to stay out of sight , out of smell , and enjoy a very good look at the herd . |
| 50 | What was clear , however , was that he was extremely intelligent , and quickly got to grips with the complex technicalities of nuclear fission and its consequences . |
| 51 | Despite the government 's interest in appraisal as being both developmental ( for the teacher ) and directly related to salary and career advancement , early experience of schools in developing schemes was almost entirely based on teacher development . |
| 52 | Some alcohol difficulties will be primarily and directly linked to alcohol use and some will be secondary , a complication but not the causal agent . |
| 53 | Rain knew Oliver was picturing himself back in the wine bar in Chelsea telling everyone how he 'd been mistaken for a drug dealer and nearly done to death in a Mediterranean backstreet by an underworld rival . |
| 54 | They are expelled from the second city they visit ( Acts 13:51 ) , plotted against at the next ( Acts 14:5 ) , and nearly stoned to death at Lystra ( Acts 14:19 ) . |
| 55 | Three years ago I joined the Trust as a single member and later converted to family membership . |
| 56 | Vestments and linens made by members in the preceding year were displayed and later given to churches as requested . |
| 57 | She appeared in the Traverse production at the 1987 Edinburgh Festival and later transferred to London . |
| 58 | The man was taken to Darlington 's Memorial Hospital with severe head injuries and later transferred to Middlesbrough General . |
| 59 | The Duke 's gardener , Joseph Paxton designed the Crystal Palace which was erected in Hyde Park for Prince Albert 's 1851 Great Exhibition , and later transferred to Sydenham in southeast London . |
| 60 | Harold Caston , from Greasby , was taken to Arrowe Park Hospital and later transferred to Walton Hospital . |