Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [vb pp] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each table was fitted with transfusion stands and connected up to the piped oxygen laid on throughout Casualty . |
| 2 | ‘ The parcels are collected during the day by one of our franchisees and taken back to the depot . |
| 3 | JFK : flown down from Washington and flung together by the doctors ' knives and the sniper 's bullets and introduced on to the streets of Dallas and a hero 's welcome . |
| 4 | If streets are to be seized from the dominance of ‘ canned ’ humans and given back to the ‘ fresh ’ ones , a commitment to a positive policy of encouraging walking throughout the city is inescapable . |
| 5 | Had it not been for the activities of Lady Laetitia 's lover , bold Sir Rupert Cartland ( played by an odious young actor who 'd risen to prominence by playing a tough naval lieutenant in a television series ) making with the garlic and the wooden stakes ( a bit of vampire lore crept into the script ) , Lady Laetitia and her father would have been turned into zombies and carried back to the subterranean cave , where they would never be heard of again . |
| 6 | Peering into the gloom I moved up , ready for anything , plopped in two comforting nuts , swung across a void , stretched up to creaking jugs and levered up to the arête , fully expecting to face an overhanging wall . |