Example sentences of "[verb] and [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It used every means at its disposal : it argued and pressured the Versailles politicians ; it cheated in the plebiscites ; it engineered uprisings in Silesia and Wielkopolska ; it skirmished and then went to war with the Red Army for territory in the east . |
| 2 | The interaction between SENSS teachers and class teachers as they work together with the class and as they exchange information is a great improvement on the situation which pertained in the days when remedial groups were withdrawn and then returned to class with a total absence or communication . |
| 3 | During the Boer War he joined the Imperial Yeomanry as a trooper , but was soon commissioned and later promoted to captain . |
| 4 | Sequoia Systems Inc , Marlborough , Massachusetts , has come up with Sequoia Support Network , claiming an industry-first in being able to instantaneously detect and automatically respond to system errors anywhere in the world . |
| 5 | Heat the oil in a large pan over a moderate heat , add the onion and garlic and cook , covered , until well softened and just starting to brown . |
| 6 | In the novel itself we meet the Russian people , the folk , only once , and then as inflictors of suffering , in Raskolnikov 's half-dream ( which is also half-memory ) of a little mare being tortured and finally clubbed to death by drunken peasants . |
| 7 | Prisoners had also been killed , including several dozen at Bubanza Gendarmerie who were gagged and then beaten to death with pieces of pipe . |
| 8 | I was just going to eat whatever it is they have and then go to sleep . |
| 9 | Well look the first thing to occur and immediately comes to mind is that if I was going to be really evil I would I 'd just stick it away in a quite drawer or wait until the day , and I 'd turn up when she was breaking the the bottle , the empty bottle over over the the skip , we 'd do a picture of her actually littering up the countryside . |
| 10 | The history of the game is littered with talented players who were never capped and so defected to league . |
| 11 | The whole company was arrested and held and then transferred to gaol in London , where Nayler was tried . |