Example sentences of "[noun] and [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corbett nodded , rose and moved away ; he emptied his bladder and went to a nearby stream to bathe his hands and face in the cold clear water . |
| 2 | But at that moment their creaking conveyance gave a sudden fearsome jerk and came to a dead stop . |
| 3 | Any schemes which promote the arts and lead to a wider understanding are obviously most welcome . |
| 4 | In a tribal village , in Africa say , a boy is born to a particular woman who , obeying the customs of her people , proceeds to rear him either under conditions of high sociability or relative isolation and according to a particular regime of toilet training and weaning . |
| 5 | I sat on one of those contemporary chairs with spindly legs and talked to a poor woman who had got me as a prize for writing something about A Wreath of Roses . |
| 6 | Real Madrid never recovered from an own goal by Brazilian defender Rocha and crashed to a 2–0 UEFA Cup defeat against Torino at Turin . |
| 7 | With the exception of two seminars on the assessment of enterprise skills , the focus on teaching and learning was taken out of the programme and shifted to a two-day conference ( with a menu of sessions to which staff can opt in ) held in June 1993 in conjunction with the Educational Development Unit . |
| 8 | They dressed with distinctive plainness and aspired to a simple integrity expressed in behavioural terms defined with the authority of Scripture . |
| 9 | A file on the alleged offences was compiled by the Suffolk force 's internal discipline department and sent to a special section of the CPS in London which deals with allegations against English police officers . |
| 10 | The bow is made out of a separate piece of fabric and stitched to a basic straight tie-back . |
| 11 | About 1.45am a few other hostages and I were herded into a red van at gunpoint and driven to a private home in the wealthy neighbourhood where General Noriega lives . |
| 12 | A MAN was being quizzed by police yesterday after a schoolgirl was kidnapped at gunpoint and subjected to a terrifying three-hour sex ordeal . |
| 13 | Shocked Andria raised the alarm then jumped in her own car and drove to a local beauty spot in Runnymede , Surrey . |
| 14 | Loch Torridon is directly ahead and the road forks before reaching it , the through road continuing along the south shore and another branching along the north side and coming to a dead end at Diabaig after nine miles . |
| 15 | She dug in her heels and came to a grinding halt . |
| 16 | The hydrogen gas would be collected within the galls and piped to a central storage system . |
| 17 | It was on the outskirts of the village and belonged to an elderly , childless couple . |
| 18 | Brand took 7 at his opening hole after being plugged in sand and subsided to an 81 . |
| 19 | This threw growing numbers on the Poor Law and added to a rising poor rate . |
| 20 | Joachim eventually broke away from the Cistercians and retired to a lonely spot in Calabria where disciples gathered around him and he was given papal permission to found his own congregation . |
| 21 | McCredie and Horrox ( 1985 ) illustrated how children , who had lost one parent through divorce and adjusted to a lone-parent family , expressed anxiety and often outright resistance to any further changes , particularly remarriage of their parent/s . |
| 22 | But despite this slight shift in the taboos , as late as the 1920s Havelock Ellis and Albert Moll were still able to recommend little metal suits of armour fitted over the genitals and attached to a locked belt as prophylaxis for masturbation , and sex education books continued to inveigh against the solitary vice well into the second half of the century . |
| 23 | One of the men in the room got to his feet and crossed to a well-stocked drinks cabinet , refilling his glass , offering the same service to his colleagues . |
| 24 | Without a word Alexander Vass rose to his feet and crossed to a small desk at the far side of the room . |
| 25 | He parked the machine and announced to a stunned crowd that he had just retired . |
| 26 | This chapter considers the financial consequences of community care policies for those women on whom such policies increasingly depend — the mothers , daughters , wives , sisters , neighbours and friends who are providing a substantial amount of help and support to a disabled or elderly person . |
| 27 | The ‘ Inner Game ’ as this type of work has come to be called , is established in tennis and applied to a wide variety of professional and amateur sports by people wishing to improve their game . |
| 28 | Two of these survived the arduous voyage round Cape Horn in the middle of winter and arrived to a grand reception in London . |
| 29 | But many member firms are concerned that control of any new system should be taken away from the Stock Exchange and given to a new independent agency , or even the Bank of England itself . |
| 30 | Shadow and body puppets , for example , can prove an effective way of dramatising poetry and lead to a thoughtful analysis of rhythm , form and movement . |