Example sentences of "and [vb past] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I leant over Mum and whispered to Dad . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | The principal cause of the problem , however , was fertilizer run-XXXX off , which contaminated groundwater and led to eutrophication of surface water . |
| 5 | The idea attracted immense enthusiasm among all classes in Scotland , and led to disaster . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Many years ago , supermarket bread acquired a reputation which has proved almost impossible to shake off ; any colour you like as long as it is white , and probably thin sliced and steamed to boot . |
| 8 | Just about the time that Dougie started er building substantially in the town and doubled to population to its present six and a half thousand or so . |
| 9 | Pennethorne submitted four alternative schemes with costs on 31st August , 1855 , which were then revised and resubmitted to Hall on 14th September , when one scheme was chosen . |
| 10 | In JMD and JMB 's absence — mail written in JMB 's mail book and passed to GWM/MAR/CMG for advice . |
| 11 | Recent years have witnessed an unprecedented welter of managerial initiatives designed to put labour onto a more competitive footing by rendering it more flexible , productive , and oriented to quality . |
| 12 | The Hotel Vancouver occupied an entire city block and rose to citadel peaks some 16 storeys above the street . |
| 13 | Changes in education laws , however , brought protests on March 22 , 1990 , from Islamic students who opposed the still-compulsory Marxist instruction and objected to co-education . |
| 14 | After being on external display at Lasham , Hants , for twenty years , Dakota G–AMPP has been purchased by Mike Woodley and is being dismantled and moved to North Weald , where , due to its poor condition , it will be examined to see if a restoration programme is viable . |
| 15 | Later that day Chamlong and hundreds of his supporters were arrested and moved to army camps . |
| 16 | He began in radio with the British Forces Broadcasting Service as a producer/ presenter and moved to Radio Luxembourg as a resident DJ in 1965 . |
| 17 | Tim thrust out an arm and shouted to Rain : ‘ Here 's the evidence if anyone wants it ! ’ |
| 18 | A hot-tempered individual , he early on fought a duel and beat to death an Indian accused of murder . |
| 19 | To determine the accuracy of back titration in determining alkali concentrations , triplicate measurements of alkali concentrations were performed on standard bicarbonate solutions ( 1 , 2 , 2.5 , 5 , 10 , 15 , 20 , and 25 mM sodium bicarbonate ) , deionised water , and standard oesophageal perfusate containing [ 3 H ] PEG and titrated to pH 7.0 with 0.2 M NaOH . |
| 20 | He pulled his wings back for speed , leaned into the wind to gain maximum drive and stooped down upon them , the air thunderous in his wings as , with talons thrust forward , he thumped the first straight to its death among the wet beach rocks and tore at the other viciously before it squawked and fled to safety in the shadows of the cliff . |
| 21 | MAGISTRATE Michael Tobin pinned a female colleague against a wall , lifted her T-shirt and tried to rubber stamp her skin , an industrial tribunal heard . |
| 22 | the police warning-light and tried to finesse |
| 23 | Seeing there are three of you , it would make sense if I made a fourth and helped to leg . ’ |
| 24 | From the ages of nine or ten they distributed magazines and helped to hand out the Sunday School " tickets " , picture cards of birds or flowers with a short text from the Bible . |
| 25 | Thirty-three bored and idle men from Rathcoole and nearby Carrickfergus took two minibuses and a taxi and drove to north Antrim for a pub crawl in districts where the writ of the Central Cc.ordinating Committee was not observed . |
| 26 | Drawings were altered er instead of getting a whole sheet of a combined er er part of a , a steering gear or whatever it might have been , er they were all itemized and reduced to part pieces , and it was much easier to look , examine and find out what sizes were required than , you know , three dimensional er drawings . |
| 27 | Monnet himself seemed to be rather more cautious about going too fast too quickly , and seemed to hanker still for sectoral integration in the first instance , especially in the developing field of nuclear energy , as a strategy which stood a better chance of succeeding in the short term . |
| 28 | Largely as a result of machinations and pressure by the king of France , the Order of Knights Templar was subjected to papal scrutiny in 1308 and condemned to dissolution in 1312 . |
| 29 | He was now arrested , tried for treason for his support of Jane Grey and condemned to death . |
| 30 | He was tried and condemned to death , but spared because of Edward 's former affection for him and because of his marriage to the king 's niece . |