Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] [vb past] the [noun sg] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | With an effort , she kept smiling as he topped up his own cup , added sugar , stirred , and unhurriedly raised the cup to his lips . |
| 2 | He smiled , finished his wine , and deftly turned the conversation to other matters . |
| 3 | That enigmatic little magician ignored this possible insult and deftly turned the conversation to other matters . |
| 4 | The Greeks had perfected the lintel method of spanning an opening ; the Romans adapted the arch from Etruscan designs and from their own development and thus led the way to later variations on this theme . |
| 5 | Milton had no intention of sharing the unpopularity which was attaching itself to Sir James and promptly referred the matter to the Solicitor-General for action , but the end result , as Mrs. Campbell pointed out , was that ‘ our Member has lost his interest in this parish and really by most of our friends in the shire ’ . |
| 6 | From its inception in April 1864 , George Healey was Honorary Secretary of the Liverpool Society for over 50 years , and still found the energy to back James Paul in his efforts to establish a national society . |
| 7 | We re-arranged the funeral cloths and decently restored the corpse to its coffin , pressing the lid firmly down . |
| 8 | The first defendants issued a common law notice to quit , and thereafter sold the land to the second to fourth defendants . |
| 9 | Seeing this , Hung Feng-Chan bowed deeply to his T'ang , then to the prince , and quickly handed the halter to one of the nearby grooms . |
| 10 | It was a convenient gathering point for all non-trainload traffic to and from South Wales , and also became the gateway to south-west England with feeder services to Bristol , Exeter , Plymouth and so on . |
| 11 | They decided to scale down the experiment and worked with a thinner piece of palladium , an 8 cm × 8 cm × 0.2 cm sheet rolled into a cylindrical shape , and also lowered the current to less than 0.2 amps instead of the 1.5 amp current that blew up the block . |
| 12 | She must have taken the letter straight to a photocopy shop after collecting it from the skip and then posted the copy to Zen before returning to the house , calculating that if the copy came to light each of the Milettis would equally be under suspicion . |
| 13 | Zanya , Jason and IB4E caught the sky bus to Ratvick , and then took the train to Zog Central . |
| 14 | Thus laden , I rode the 20 miles to Picton and caught the ferry ; stayed overnight in Wellington and then took the train to Auckland — no problems in putting the bike aboard ; and this journey lived up to expectations and surpassed them ; the scenery through the ‘ King Country ’ in autumn is quite unrivalled , and again looks like a superb area for a cycle tour . |
| 15 | I waited for another few seconds and then crossed the landing to my own flat where I completed my own process of locking myself in for the night . |
| 16 | Above Dorothea 's head , six new , blue mugs hung on six newly-erected hooks , for Florence Ames thought of all things and was constantly suggesting improvements — not that she insisted upon them or took anything in hand , only looked and suggested and then left the idea to be considered , accepted or rejected . |
| 17 | And then carried the news to Cara . |
| 18 | The defendant then selected one of them and then sold the set to that person for one penny . |
| 19 | He had taught himself shorthand and then taught the subject to others . |
| 20 | In ancient Egypt , doctors put wheat and barley seeds into separate cloth purses and then told the woman to ‘ pass her water on it every day … |
| 21 | I am not sure if Sir Henry Wood conducted it , for at that time he seemed to conduct only the first item of a concert , and then ceded the podium to Basil Cameron . |
| 22 | The managers interviewed in all four companies expected to initiate matters in the foreign language ( usually verbally — by telephone ; but also by producing draft written outlines of reports ) and then subcontracted the work to highly skilled subordinates , such as bilingual secretaries . |
| 23 | Lisabeth held back and then handed the bouquet to Fenella . |
| 24 | The phone was handed over to Erika , who confirmed the trip and then gave the phone to her mother , who exchanged a few banalities and then handed it to Omi , who cooed and clucked and finally returned it to Herr Nordern who said , briefly , that they all looked forward very much to seeing Karl again and firmly replaced the receiver before anyone else could claim it . |
| 25 | Thinking he was going to throw it away , Zborowski put out his hand to take it but Modigliani cowed him with a look and gravely presented the drawing to the sitter . |
| 26 | Ironically Roche , who was so effective at creating business , appeared unable to manage it , and almost drove the firm to bankruptcy when he became its president . |
| 27 | Presumably this could happen if the employee retired and sold the information or if he joined company X and yet sold the information to company Y. It may be a recognition by the Court that the attitude of the courts generally towards employees since 1913 has , in some cases , been over generous . |
| 28 | Bob pushed her back onto the landing once again , and again pulled the door to behind him . |
| 29 | The National Executive at first refused this , but eventually left the decision to the Conference delegates . |
| 30 | He said that it was clear that payment by a surety , whether in whole or in part , not only released the surety but also reduced the liability to the creditor of the principal debtor . |