Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] to the [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | No — she was presumably seeing to the food and Rupert did n't look the kind of man who would be good at arranging flowers . |
| 2 | They are mostly limited to the accident and emergency department , the coronary care unit , and the intensive care unit ; results from general wards are depressingly poor . |
| 3 | The duty arises from the real concern that management may benefit from an opportunity which properly belongs to the company and its shareholders . |
| 4 | I had a very good man in to see to the heating and lighting , and the whole conversion was done professionally . |
| 5 | At this point the husband , who had not moved once during his wife 's burial — not even during the long wait for the priest — suddenly fainted to the ground and had to have cold water thrown over him . |
| 6 | It had blown a gale in the early hours and I had been up with my torch at three o'clock to attend to the guy-ropes and check that the washing was still on the line : it was , but it had become red with dust . |
| 7 | He only goes to the shops and back on it . |
| 8 | Although it was the size of a pantry , they endlessly clung to the bars and clamoured to be let out . |
| 9 | DoH attempts to secrecy only added to the mystique and it was n't long before the Support Force and Butler collected an array of nicknames with the £hit-squad ’ being the most polite . |
| 10 | It can get busy at weekends — especially Sundays , with walkers , cyclists and horse-riders and the occasional car or four-wheel drive all contributing to the wear and tear of the track . |
| 11 | Younger was in a very exposed position , for he was Chairman of the National Union Executive responsible for carrying out its decisions , as well as Party Chairman and so committed to the leader and the coalition . |
| 12 | Two of them are ‘ common ’ sails , in which slats could be adjusted manually according to the speed and direction of the wind . |
| 13 | They become invisible and ignored too quickly if their needs are not constantly presented to the public and to politicians . |
| 14 | They undoubtedly deserve them for being flexible enough to listen to the people and to bodies like the Royal Fine Arts Commission and for thinking up the innovative scheme itself . |
| 15 | The unremitting four-mile ascent to the high pass over the ridge reduced me to a walking wet rag ; I was literally soaked to the skin and could feel rivulets chasing each other down my bosom . |
| 16 | So look to the future and suss out the science of beauty . |
| 17 | Bernice found herself unable to look away , inexorably drawn to the guilt and sadness she saw in Cheryl 's face , and which she blamed herself for . |
| 18 | They were forced to ponder on whether the Reform Bill would end the old system , or , in aiding the middle classes , merely add to the strength and number of working-class oppressors . |
| 19 | They resist change because they feel threatened by it and are the ones who constantly refer to the rules and regulations before they will do anything . |
| 20 | The overall length of gas pipeline in the USSR was planned to reach 300,000km by 1984 — enough to stretch to the moon and back . |
| 21 | The ant , Petalomyrex phylax , is apparently restricted to the plant and protects its stem apices from attack . |
| 22 | The result is that systems at every level from the state to the small company are evaluated and policies are developed which are not sufficiently orientated to the needs and aspirations of the people within the system . |
| 23 | There can be no doubt that this new ideal was much better adapted to the intellectual and material developments in western Europe after 1050 than the old monastically oriented society of the earlier period . |
| 24 | It is obviously linked to the dilemmas and strategies of contemporary students , and itself was a form of adaptive behaviour . |
| 25 | Cecilia thought this would not be much comfort to the relatives and friends of the waitress and the guest . |
| 26 | However , when the Parkers passed by , some were cruel enough to refer to the minister and his attractive wife as ‘ The Beauty and the Beast ’ . |
| 27 | ‘ He 'd better go to the zoo and live with the animals . |
| 28 | He lobs loadsa bombs , so keep to the sides and move in to kick when you see the chance . |
| 29 | Well I mean the most of them will obviously go to the cash and er to the er supermarkets and pick it up . |
| 30 | On top of this recurrent expenditure , Gloucester was pressing for a major rebuilding programme , to include not only repairs to the castle and town walls , but the construction of 120 new houses at an estimated cost of £1,600 . |