Example sentences of "and [vb past] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The moving spectacle , which was interrupted repeatedly by rounds of automatic weapons fire , was carried live on Sarajevo television , and beamed to homes in all the former Yugoslavian republics . |
| 2 | Patrick leaned forward and whispered to Joseph . |
| 3 | I leant over Mum and whispered to Dad . |
| 4 | She kicked forward and whispered to Scathach , ‘ They 're not wolves , they 're humans . |
| 5 | Sir Bruce sipped , made a face , and whispered to Agnes : ‘ And I thought we suffered at MoD . |
| 6 | The clerk stopped for a moment and whispered to Mr Albert , who , realizing that instead of selling a pair of jeans he really had a customer with money to spend , hurried towards Hank . |
| 7 | Seizing her opportunity , Margaret leant forward across her desk and whispered to Maura . |
| 8 | He laughed whenever she spoke to him and clung to Dotty Blundell for protection , whirling her away on his arm the moment rehearsals were over . |
| 9 | She shivered and clung to Maggie , burying her head like a child . |
| 10 | Here on the islands , where there was little vegetation , one species fed on seaweed and clung to rocks among the surging waves with unusually long and powerful claws . |
| 11 | At the end of the street he had the option of turning left , into the town , or right , along the road which skirted the shore and led to Moorgate and the hill to Albert Tarace . |
| 12 | This construction usually evoked great alarm among the surrounding natives and led to attempts to destroy the fort which had been built on their land … |
| 13 | Indeed , the efficiency of a denationalized , deregulated British Telecom somewhat declined thereafter , and led to complaints about poor service and rising telephone bills . |
| 14 | It was this which incensed Presbyterians and led to complaints about him in the Westminster Assembly . |
| 15 | Clouds of soot and oily particles obscured the sun and led to downpours of " black rain " in northern Saudi Arabia and Kuwait . |
| 16 | This congruence took a somewhat arbitrary and procrustean form and led to conflicts of interest , particularly in the case of the Head of the Art Department . |
| 17 | Paxton was a young gardener at Chatsworth when , encouraged by the 6th Duke , he built a giant conservatory 300 feet long , 145 feet wide by 60 feet high which soon attracted the world 's attention and led to Paxton being commissioned to build the Crystal Palace for the Exhibition of 1851 . |
| 18 | The introductions last year of massively parallel machines by the likes of Intel Corp , Thinking Machines Corp opened up the parallel market and led to forecasts that they would eventually replace the vector machines first developed by Seymour Cray , who did his pioneering work at the then Control Data Corp before moving on to found Cray Research Inc and then Cray Computer Corp . |
| 19 | The announcement immediately heightened the political tension in the country and led to speculation that Cristiani 's stance now reflected the views of extreme right-wing elements in the army and in his own Nationalist Republican Alliance ( Arena ) party . |
| 20 | The figures , which were announced at the weekend , disappointed most and led to warnings of cuts in services to avoid charge capping . |
| 21 | It will come as no surprise to discover , then , that Spencer was highly critical of statutory intervention , arguing that it stifled liberty and led to rigidity and uniformity : ‘ Society , a living growing organism , placed within apparatuses of dead , rigid , mechanical formulas , can not fail to be hampered and pinched . ’ |
| 22 | It was estimated to have cost the US taxpayer $2,600 million and led to charges of ethics violations against five members of the US Senate [ see p. 38568 ] . |
| 23 | While the procedure was to some extent artificial and led to conclusions that did not always stand up to later study , it did at least mean that the different forms of early Christian teaching could now be admitted for discussion , and the possibility of real conflict between opposing views recognised as a natural and proper element in the development . |
| 24 | We will end the neglect that has allowed some former patients to end up sleeping rough and led to others being placed on remand . |
| 25 | The principal cause of the problem , however , was fertilizer run-XXXX off , which contaminated groundwater and led to eutrophication of surface water . |
| 26 | Peasgood , in a more recent exercise , described how studies of subject use in an academic library revealed considerable variations , and led to changes in allocations policy . |
| 27 | This was a fundamental contribution to the phenomenon of absorption and led to changes in the composition of artificial manures . |
| 28 | The idea attracted immense enthusiasm among all classes in Scotland , and led to disaster . |
| 29 | The success of the initial pilot programme has been recognised by the Ministry of Health and the Institute of Health Education and led to Maurice , Kate and Ana meeting with Government officials and representatives from UNICEF to establish a long-term training programme in five Romanian regions , starting in November of this year . |
| 30 | The 11 sufferers identified in the study said the smell blighted their relationships with the opposite sex , wrecked promotion prospects at work and led to addiction to cigarettes , alcohol and drugs . |