Example sentences of "and [vb past] [pron] to [noun] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The proprietor took over , and was still serving the portions when one of the waitresses came in and whispered something to Delaney . |
| 2 | Cousin Jane looked across at her and smiled and whispered something to Mike . |
| 3 | ‘ Suddenly the guy pulled a knife on the bouncer and stabbed him to death-right in front of my eyes . ’ |
| 4 | It 's alleged that twenty eight year old Andrew Livermore of Northampton , went to the home of Digby Saunderson last August and stabbed him to death on his doorstep . |
| 5 | It was Marriott who suggested that Stirling should make himself scarce for a while and recommended him to Brigadier Denys Reid . |
| 6 | Bede perceived in Ceolwulf a love of religion and recommended him to Ecgberht , bishop of York , in 734 as a willing helper in the work of ecclesiastical reform and organization . |
| 7 | It was one of the magnetic forces that drew them overseas , and led them to disappointment quite as often as to wealth . |
| 8 | The pair had been trapped in an upstairs ' room until firefighters smashed their way in through a window and led them to safety down a ladder . |
| 9 | Mona asked what the dear child was burbling about , and led him to Bumface 's vacant chair by the fire . |
| 10 | He calmed the animal , quickly inspected it , then led it to a second , checked this animal too for wounds and led it to Wynne-Jones . |
| 11 | Wearing the briefest of briefs , red-faced Joe played on until the referee , Mr Jones , very kindly removed his own shorts and lent them to Storey . |
| 12 | Bobby bought it yesterday and lent it to dad cos we bought we bought ourself , well Rob , dad did , I do n't look at them erm they 're too violent for me but dad bought it in Superkey only five ninety nine . |
| 13 | I phoned Shirley , a friend I 'd made who ran a travel agency , and asked her to book me on the mid-day Concorde . |
| 14 | But Jim insisted , insisted that I bought him a pint and asked me to caddie for him the following week at St Anne 's . |
| 15 | Right well it came up when War on Want wrote to us and asked us to affiliate and we had a brief chat about it and felt that there are many groups that we could affiliate to . |
| 16 | The giant , who by now had reached her , was maddened with what he saw and battered her to death with his club . |
| 17 | ‘ He turned to face her , brought her to the floor and battered her to death , ’ he said . |
| 18 | The WPBSA 's constitution does not permit player-directors to be paid , but the board voted itself a 50 pence per mile travelling allowance in 1984 and doubled it to £1 per mile this year . |
| 19 | Edward II particularly profited from the almost unctuous service of Pope Clement V : he it was who absolved the king from Archbishop Winchelsey 's curses and from his own various oaths ; it was Clement who appointed Reynolds , the king 's chaplain and treasurer , to Worcester and translated him to Canterbury to the exclusion of the eminently qualified capitular candidate , Thomas de Cobham ; above all , Clement alleviated Edward 's poverty with papal subsidies . |
| 20 | ’ Blenkarn received the goods but never paid for them and sold them to Cundy who knew nothing of his fraud . |
| 21 | And sold them to children who passed by his door |
| 22 | Thurland and Höchstetter had , they wrote , divided the mines into 24 shares or " whole parts " and sold them to Nobles and Lords , who paid 11,200 for one-twentyfourth part , besides 1850 towards the maintenance of the works . |
| 23 | I think it came from David , but Angie and Tony certainly drummed it up and sold it to us and then went on and sold it to others . |
| 24 | In National Mutual General Insurance Association Ltd. v. Jones ( 1988 H.L. ) the issue was whether the sections could operate to defeat the title of someone much earlier in the chain of events than C. Thieves had stolen a car and sold it to A who sold it to C ( a car dealer ) who sold it to D ( another car dealer ) who sold it to Jones . |
| 25 | For as the Industrial Revolution progressed and changed much of Northern England , the Lake District became more and more of an economic backwater , a comparatively poor district where , for example , people scraped the yellow lichen Ochrolechia tartarea from the rocks and sold it to dyers for a penny a pound . |
| 26 | He sat in the corner of the Silver Shuriken , as far away from the bleeding video jukebox and bleeping zapper games as possible , sipping the foul antifreeze that passed for beer in the U.S. of Bloody A. He would have cut off his left doughnut and sold it to Johnny Galtieri for a pint of Six X Wadsworth , two bacon-and-cheddar sarnies and a packet of crisps with a blue twist of salt in them . |
| 27 | There was a Django Reinhardt tape playing , I know because I recorded it and sold it to Stubbly , and Ken the barman was sitting on a bar stool reading the News of the World . |
| 28 | He was a cavalcade of theatrical camp , a marionette who dressed up gay attitudes in new frocks , and sold it to grannies from Neasden . |
| 29 | An RAF helicopter spotted their craft drifting about 10 miles off Aberdovey and winched them to safety . |
| 30 | Schellenberg read the article quickly and passed it to Devlin . |