Example sentences of "and [vb past] [verb] [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Any visual aid should be carefully selected and planned to add clarity to the presentation . |
| 2 | Charles the Younger wasted the region of the Upper Elbe so thoroughly that the Czechs submitted , and agreed to pay tribute to the Franks . |
| 3 | Profile was set up by Heather Burke , Phonelink 's current client service director , and sold planning information to 3,500 UK companies in the building industry . |
| 4 | It was held that they could be convicted a second time and made to pay compensation to a second victim who had read a copy of the same brochure . |
| 5 | They cut , and the actress scrambled up and examined her knees ; a woman from Wardrobe ran up and gave her a change of mack , and bent to apply panstick to her hands where they had been dirtied by the wrecker's-yard floor ; she checked her hose and brushed her hair and the actress shook her head slowly from side to side so that it fluffed . |
| 6 | Then he watched a video and tried to set fire to the house before going back to Bath . |
| 7 | After the object ( a toy car ) had been put at B , the boxes were locked ; with the result that most of the infants went straight to B , could not get in , and returned to A and tried to gain entry to a box which they could see ( whatever ‘ see ’ means here exactly ) was empty . |
| 8 | The performance , broadcast on Radio 3 , was by Ernst Kovacic with the BBC Philharmonic , conducted by Jerzy Maksymiuk , and seemed to do justice to a score so full of beautiful music that it will need several hearings before one begins to identify all its jewels . |
| 9 | In fact he was subjected to a very stiff , puritanical and doctrinal regime , only mitigated by the fact that he was educated by a long sequence of tutors , and seemed to have access to a lot of books . |
| 10 | This is an undesirable state of affairs so women must once again be taught , persuaded and encouraged to give priority to their families , and in future social policies should be developed , or indeed not developed , with this aim in mind . |
| 11 | The virus travelled into the neural net during a regular systems update and began to transmit information to IMC . |
| 12 | I would have questioned her further , except that she finally grew solicitous and began paying attention to my injuries . |
| 13 | She left the two boys and went to say good-bye to Hepzibah . |
| 14 | Well I got trapped under er under one of the er rocks that f fell down and then managed to get that off me leg and went to give assistance to er the machine-man , the man on the machine which er trapped as well and er realized then that me leg had me leg was broken so took me down the end of the road and managed to get the stone off the lad and the machine and you got carried in to hospital . |
| 15 | She too had brought an illegitimate daughter to the union , and died giving birth to Godwin 's own daughter Mary . |
| 16 | It featured strong condemnation of the radical party faction known as the " Democratic Platform " , and appeared to give notice to faction members to leave the party or face expulsion . |
| 17 | The negotiations , which had reached their seventh round and had given rise to considerable optimism , centred on the creation of internationally managed reception centres in Vietnam . |
| 18 | In the time of Henry VII he had stripped the whole of Fife of oak and fir trees in order to build a huge man-of-war , the Great St Michael , and had given hospitality to the impostor Perkin Warbeck as son of Edward IV and therefore rightful king of England . |
| 19 | Annie was broad-hipped and had given birth to overweight babies with no difficulty . |
| 20 | Richard , as second son , had been promised Aquitaine by his mother and had done homage to Louis VII of France . |
| 21 | I took him to about twenty houses and had made love to him on the splintery boards of about half of them before he decided that this was not a suitable town for his mother to live in — too quiet , too far from London — and the estate agent , whose car had been left standing in leafy side-streets for too many unprofitable hours , gave me a week 's wages and said he thought another job might suit me better . |
| 22 | ‘ I found as the charred remains came to light that one of their employees , who had left the firm last year , had been embezzling them for years and had set fire to the premises so that no trace could be found of his dirty work . |
| 23 | It was reported that Uzbeks had demonstrated on Feb. 20 in Tashkent to demand the immediate eviction of Meskhetians , prompting the authorities to begin evacuating Meskhetian residents from the city for their own protection , and that on the following day Uzbek demonstrators had broken through police cordons protecting several Meskhetian-run collective farms outside Tashkent and had set fire to around 50 Meskhetian homes . |
| 24 | Yet politicians persisted in propagating the myth and continued to draw attention to the supposed independence of the press . |
| 25 | He attended the early meetings of SADCC Ministers and Heads of State and Government , and continued to provide assistance to SADCC , until illness made this impossible . |
| 26 | It was her own fault for asking , and she paid the price , pain tearing at her heart as Damian bent his head and continued making love to her until she reached a bitter-sweet ecstasy in his arms , and after that she never mentioned love again . |
| 27 | In the case of Re S and W ( Minors ) [ 1982 ] 12 FLR 151 , CA , the Court of Appeal held that these were privileged and refused to order disclosure to a parent in the course of wardship proceedings . |
| 28 | My immediate anxiety was that the authorities might forbid my journey , since the Asaimara of Bahdu had recently renounced their allegiance to the Government and refused to send tribute to Asba Tafari . |