Example sentences of "and [vb past] 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 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 ! ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I leant over Mum and whispered to Dad . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Seizing her opportunity , Margaret leant forward across her desk and whispered to Maura . |
| 8 | Patrick leaned forward and whispered to Joseph . |
| 9 | He reached through the hole and whispered to her to take his hand . |
| 10 | He stepped back from the console and whispered to the Cell . |
| 11 | Slowly , they got together at the far end of the house and whispered to each other . |
| 12 | 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 … |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | As Rain showed him and Eliot out , he hung back and whispered to her . |
| 15 | Sir Bruce sipped , made a face , and whispered to Agnes : ‘ And I thought we suffered at MoD . |
| 16 | She kissed it as if it was a relic and whispered to me la muerta , la muerta . |
| 17 | She kicked forward and whispered to Scathach , ‘ They 're not wolves , they 're humans . |
| 18 | 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 . ’ |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | English poststructuralists , when wearing their Marxist hats , would undoubtedly want to insist that ideas belong in larger contexts , social , cultural , and political , and can not easily be abstracted and appropriated to other ends . |
| 21 | Bhawana loved animals and planned to be a vet . |
| 22 | But in the weeks that followed they became very close and clung to one another in their loss . |
| 23 | Her thin denim jacket was sodden and clung to her like a wet tea towel . |
| 24 | Feeling sick with relief that she had not run away with a rich man , Frankie shook his head vigorously in agreement and clung to her arm . |
| 25 | Wilcox set off in a straight line , indifferent to the snow that covered his thin black shoes and clung to his trouser bottoms . |
| 26 | On the Continent , station architects tended to be more restrained than their English-speaking colleagues , more prone to arches than towers , but they were not unaffected by the new aesthetic and clung to it longer . |
| 27 | He crouched down and clung to the rail with his right hand and reached out with his left as if to punch a hole through the wall . |
| 28 | She curled up in the darkest corner , pillowing her head on her arm , and clung to the memory of four hours before , when the time had stilled and she had been not , sweet tearing bliss … . |
| 29 | She embraced her sobbing daughter and clung to her in desperate shame . |
| 30 | Nicky slid off the sofa and clung to her legs . |