Example sentences of "[adv prt] and [verb] to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To relax would mean giving in and conceding to a common prejudice which does nothing to enhance women 's esteem . |
| 2 | The use of easily-obtained European woods helped to keep costs down and contributed to an individual and unique tone . |
| 3 | She walked on and came to a one-story building surrounded by a cordon of wire fencing . |
| 4 | Somewhere in Verona , apparently , there is an academic who answers all correspondence sent to the imaginary , dead woman Juliet Capulet , which is just the kind of ironic nugget Costello would seize on and enlarge to a 20-song opus . |
| 5 | He stood up and went to a battered grey filing cabinet , rummaged through it , and grunted . |
| 6 | I do n't remember how they got us out of the apartment , but I do remember that we stopped somewhere before leaving Beirut where we were taped up and transferred to a false-bottomed truck . |
| 7 | Harvey helped me up and pointed to a concrete runway just below us . |
| 8 | Subjects not studied at school can be taken up and pursued to an advanced level . |
| 9 | From now on smokers must clock out and go to a special room for each cigarette break . |
| 10 | You either stand up and walk out and go to a different class , or you join in . |
| 11 | When the caravan stopped they were dragged out and transferred to an open truck . |
| 12 | Suppose a subject is listening to different sequences of sounds played independently to each ear through a pair of headphones in order to pick out and respond to a particular target sound . |
| 13 | These molecules are proteins , which are embedded in the cell 's surface membrane and have one portion that sticks out and binds to a similar or complementary molecule on adjacent cells . |