Example sentences of "and [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | The moving spectacle , which was interrupted repeatedly by rounds of automatic weapons fire , was carried live on Sarajevo television , and beamed to homes in all the former Yugoslavian republics . |
| 2 | As someone who lives just outside Brighton and commutes to Autocar & Motor 's office on the outskirts of Teddington , West London , it 's fitting that I should be the Clio 's new keeper . |
| 3 | They laughed a little hysterically , and whispered to each other to be quiet and then laughed again , drunk with the joy of touching hands and the scent of their bodies in the dark . |
| 4 | I lay still and looked at him in the dusk and began to laugh , and whispered to her , ‘ It 's all right , it 's a statue of St Joseph ! ’ |
| 5 | She stood on the stool and reached up to replace it , and when she stood back down again she bent over and whispered to me , ‘ That 's a bad omen , luv . |
| 6 | I leant over Mum and whispered to Dad . |
| 7 | The clerk stopped for a moment and whispered to Mr Albert , who , realizing that instead of selling a pair of jeans he really had a customer with money to spend , hurried towards Hank . |
| 8 | Seizing her opportunity , Margaret leant forward across her desk and whispered to Maura . |
| 9 | Patrick leaned forward and whispered to Joseph . |
| 10 | He reached through the hole and whispered to her to take his hand . |
| 11 | He stepped back from the console and whispered to the Cell . |
| 12 | Slowly , they got together at the far end of the house and whispered to each other . |
| 13 | There were about twenty passengers ( this was no passenger ship ) and we slept in the mess , on benches and deckchairs , much resented by the crew , each of us with his possessions , or his secret , crushed like a lover in his arms and whispered to in all the languages of Europe … |
| 14 | The next day Signor Merli came to the bank , ostensibly on business , and whispered to me that some of the prisoners had decided to leave their hiding places and strike out across the Via Emilia towards the high Apennines . |
| 15 | As Rain showed him and Eliot out , he hung back and whispered to her . |
| 16 | Sir Bruce sipped , made a face , and whispered to Agnes : ‘ And I thought we suffered at MoD . |
| 17 | She kissed it as if it was a relic and whispered to me la muerta , la muerta . |
| 18 | She kicked forward and whispered to Scathach , ‘ They 're not wolves , they 're humans . |
| 19 | I shuffled along behind Werewolf and whispered to him , ‘ Head for the Wood to the right and wait for me somewhere near that big conifer . ’ |
| 20 | Chimbote was a dreadful place , litter everywhere and smelling to hell of oil . |
| 21 | One type adopts and aspires to dominant middle class values and priorities . |
| 22 | There were the names of all the venomous creatures in North and West Africa to be listed and the manufacturers of antiserums for their bites and stings to be contacted . |
| 23 | To do this exercise , put the carriage to E , where you 'll find it tucks to the right and knits to the left . |
| 24 | The edict of Guntram issued at Péronne , and appended to the canons of the Council of Mâcon of 585 , continues royal involvement in ecclesiastical legislation , with an attack on Sunday work , and by backing the force of the canons with secular sanctions . |
| 25 | What had happened was that O had been at home , not sleeping , thinking about Boy at six in the morning , and he had called up and said , ‘ Are you watching TV , ’ to which Boy had replied , as the man had heard , ‘ Yes , ’ and then O had told Boy to turn over to the boxing ; he 'd just said , ‘ Get up and change to the third channel . |
| 26 | When the fish are well on feed I will put one rod away and change to a butt-indicator which allows me to fish more quickly and efficiently . |
| 27 | This meant that changes in crime rates , or variations between different settings ( such as urban and rural ) , which had played an important part in theories relating social or economic conditions and change to crime , could equally well be explained by variations in crime-recording practices . |
| 28 | Thus a peroxide-bleaching process produces a less obnoxious effluent than a kier-boil-hypochlorite bleach , and change to the peroxide method might be advantageous provided that the resulting textile product and the costs were acceptable . |
| 29 | First of all , Marx 's theory of historical materialism was one of the very first theories of society and change to be formulated which provided a historical overview and , at the same time , attempted to mesh together the workings of social , economic and political phenomena . |
| 30 | And change to the C drive so if you type C col |