Example sentences of "[noun sg] and [verb] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Corbett nodded , rose and moved away ; he emptied his bladder and went to a nearby stream to bathe his hands and face in the cold clear water . |
| 2 | But at that moment their creaking conveyance gave a sudden fearsome jerk and came to a dead stop . |
| 3 | In a tribal village , in Africa say , a boy is born to a particular woman who , obeying the customs of her people , proceeds to rear him either under conditions of high sociability or relative isolation and according to a particular regime of toilet training and weaning . |
| 4 | He sacrificed , he sacrificed the quick movement , the rapid changes of circumstance which a certain kind of reader demands , in order to match his description of thinking and feeling to the actual pace at which these things are experienced in real life . |
| 5 | I gave up being a bird watcher and succumbed to the delicious trippery feel of sun on my back and sand on my front . |
| 6 | She lay awake for a long time , looking at a pattern of moonlight on the stone floor of the bedroom and listening to the distant complaints of the chained dog she now knew to belong to Buck Kettering . |
| 7 | Appointed lord advocate and admitted to the Privy Council in 1951 , he became lord justice-general and lord president in 1954 . |
| 8 | The dollar crisis and the abandonment of the Gold Standard signalled the beginning of the end of the dollar bloc and led to the inevitable American withdrawal from Vietnam . |
| 9 | With the exception of two seminars on the assessment of enterprise skills , the focus on teaching and learning was taken out of the programme and shifted to a two-day conference ( with a menu of sessions to which staff can opt in ) held in June 1993 in conjunction with the Educational Development Unit . |
| 10 | By regarding the strikes as a definite act of political attack on the regime , the republican government strengthened left wing opposition and contributed to the socialist move left-ward . |
| 11 | They dressed with distinctive plainness and aspired to a simple integrity expressed in behavioural terms defined with the authority of Scripture . |
| 12 | Ever demonstrative , Markus Stenz clearly aimed at the dramatic in Beethoven 's Symphony No4 and digging deep , uncovered hidden orchestral reserves bringing a satisfying degree of tension and thrill to the first movement . |
| 13 | To use , soak gauze dressing in the infusion and apply to the affected parts as often as required until relief is felt . |
| 14 | A file on the alleged offences was compiled by the Suffolk force 's internal discipline department and sent to a special section of the CPS in London which deals with allegations against English police officers . |
| 15 | Colonel Glass had arranged that Reuters press telegrams should be handled by the Department and distributed to the Burmese newspapers , so international news was regularly published , and the liaison with the Burmese editors established . |
| 16 | The obvious one is by a chemical message leaving one cell and diffusing to the next — rather like speaking . |
| 17 | The bow is made out of a separate piece of fabric and stitched to a basic straight tie-back . |
| 18 | Turn 1.5cm ( ⅝in ) of blind fabric and lining to the wrong side along the top edge . |
| 19 | I became an expert at putting my rollers on in the dark and listening to the Top Twenty under the sheets . |
| 20 | About 1.45am a few other hostages and I were herded into a red van at gunpoint and driven to a private home in the wealthy neighbourhood where General Noriega lives . |
| 21 | A MAN was being quizzed by police yesterday after a schoolgirl was kidnapped at gunpoint and subjected to a terrifying three-hour sex ordeal . |
| 22 | Shocked Andria raised the alarm then jumped in her own car and drove to a local beauty spot in Runnymede , Surrey . |
| 23 | Peter Davies , the housing association 's chief executive , said all the families were evacuated by boat and taken to the Aberconwy Centre . |
| 24 | b ) Pass the ribber carriage back to join the main carriage and connect to the connecting arm . |
| 25 | He strolled across the foyer to deposit her room key and spoke to the middle-aged receptionist behind the desk , who straightened respectfully . |
| 26 | She then felt a choking sensation with increasing wheeze , tightness , and cough and rushed to the nearest accident and emergency department . |
| 27 | Corbett stopped his horse and turned to the startled Ranulf . |
| 28 | Loch Torridon is directly ahead and the road forks before reaching it , the through road continuing along the south shore and another branching along the north side and coming to a dead end at Diabaig after nine miles . |
| 29 | A good deal of money has been made tarting up riverside and bank top pubs to take account of the new ambiance and to cater to the non-industrial affluent . |
| 30 | While he talked to a girl , she would sit at the bar and talk to the nearest man . |