Example sentences of "[adv] and [adv] [vb pp] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three hundred and thirty thousand Germans have been senselessly and irresponsibly led to death and destruction through the cunning strategy of a corporal from World War 1 . |
| 2 | Right , we , we , we did actually draw , or we not draw , we , we adopted a constitution during the year and the officers that are erm elected are the Chair , the Secretary and the Treasurer , erm and other , together with other such officers , yeah to determine by general meeting , erm , so it 's really only those three , er and we have sometimes had Advice Chair if there 's only been one Chairman have n't we , one Chair person erm so I think people need to say if they do n't wish to carry on the jobs they 're doing and if anybody wishes to nominate anyone in a particular post then slip at the bottom of the minutes could be filled in and either brought to meeting or sent back to the Secretary . |
| 3 | He began to write verses and at the age of seventeen , in sending a sonnet to his mother , declared his resolution that ‘ My poor abilities in poetry shall be all and ever consecrated to God 's glory . ’ |
| 4 | Perhaps the dressing down , promptly and properly administered to Mark Ramprakash , was also beneficial . |
| 5 | As time went on , Finch found himself more and more attached to bed . |
| 6 | The real matter is in fact that the vast majority of children in this country are growing up in a secularist culture which rules out religion altogether , and that those within faith communities are living in a world in which their faiths will be more and more subjected to secularist interrogation . |
| 7 | The figures are thought to have been adapted from a cycle of statues made by the sculptor Lysippus for a sanctuary at Alezia ( Acarnania , Greece ) in the 4th century BC and later brought to Rome . |
| 8 | In practice most trade bills are discounted once and then held to maturity . |
| 9 | Each bone has to be removed , individually labelled , packed up and then sent to Bradford for examination . |
| 10 | They benefited both practically and emotionally compared to girls without such support , who suffered more from their lack of status and recognition as mothers . |
| 11 | The idea is not to turn churches into fortresses , but to make sure the door is well and truly closed to criminals . |
| 12 | So were you born here moved to Malton , moved back here and then moved to Malton or you were here and they you moved to Malton when she lived there ? |
| 13 | Officials there are regularly and publicly taken to task at conservation meetings in Britain and abroad over Britain 's absence from the convention . |
| 14 | Robert James , alias Smith , was locked in Reading Gaol overnight and then escorted to Wantage the following morning . |
| 15 | In fact it was only in the 1940s that principles of gradation began to be rigidly and systematically applied to beginners ' courses in limited vocabularies . |
| 16 | That someone as gentle and inoffensive as Sybil , with her flower paintings and her harmless little poems , should have been needlessly and savagely battered to death , made Melissa seethe with rage . |
| 17 | Sailing with about 50 men in mid-October , Ormonde had an uneventful passage from Normandy to Torbay , but failed to see any signs of a rising there and thereupon returned to St Malo . |
| 18 | He spent about 3 months surveying the Carboniferous and Old Red Sandstone rocks there and then returned to London . |
| 19 | Some alcohol difficulties will be primarily and directly linked to alcohol use and some will be secondary , a complication but not the causal agent . |
| 20 | The Shah listened quietly and then turned to Sullivan " almost beseechingly , throwing out his hands and saying , " yes , but where will I go " " |