Example sentences of "and [vb past] [to-vb] at a " in BNC.

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1 Mansell received the fine and a one-race ban , which FISA applied to the Spanish Grand Prix , after he illegally reversed his Ferrari in the pits and failed to stop at a black disqualification flag , waved three times during the race in Estoril on 24 September .
2 He should have been booted out of the Olympics and told to race at a more apt venue .
3 The men were taken into a tent and allowed to look at a group of objects for a short period after which they had to recall every detail they had observed .
4 So I left , and went to stay at a friend 's .
5 She had been constructed in Hampshire before the Second World War by craftsmen who had taken pride in their work , but fibreglass had made wooden boats redundant and Masquerade had been laid up and left to rot at a boatyard on the River Exe .
6 But something did delay her ; she stopped and stood to stare at a marvel of nature , so strange as to suspend belief .
7 Craxi vehemently denied the allegations and refused to resign at a closed meeting of the party executive on Dec. 17 .
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