Example sentences of "and [pron] [verb] [prep] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | We have all felt the frustration of dealing with institutions and bureaucracy — receiving the institutional brush off , the failure to generate a spark of interest or concern , knowing that nothing will be done and nothing change in response to your grievance . |
| 2 | I was cold and hungry — in eight hours I had only had three tangerines — and I throbbed from toes to groin . |
| 3 | In the end I could n't get rid of them , I had two days off when I was ill and I had as holidays to ge to get them sort of settled up you know . |
| 4 | Colleagues , we now to come to a , an item on the agenda which is always very pleasurable at our annual conference and I refer of course to the presentation of the G M B gold badge . |
| 5 | And I went to Liverpool to London for my honeymoon . |
| 6 | I wanted to go to Scotland and I remember I came to say goodbye to my parents and that was in the evening and I went by train to Liverpool Street and it was pouring with rain and I had to make my way , I had a taxi across to Euston , you see , and er and I went up th the left side of the country , see , past Carlisle and and then across and across and then and to Greenock er er to Dunoon , you see . |
| 7 | Ludo and I shuffle from pub to pub , table to table , like the Salvation Army rattling tins . |
| 8 | Once , this woman from an agency stopped me in the street and offered me a job and I travelled to Manchester to her agency , but they said : you 'd need to lose a few pounds , and get rid of this spot , and things like that ; and I thought : I ca n't be bothered . |
| 9 | Their farm , West park , was in Lunedale and I travelled by train to Middleton in Teesdale . |
| 10 | Now quite clearly the new settlement erm when it , if and when it goes ahead will be outside erm the area of the green belt and which by definition is by and large the area of the Greater York er er study area , and I think in response to er Mr 's point , we 've accepted as a need for a er a minor amendment to the wording of policy H one to reflect that er that reality . |
| 11 | Dr Johnson 's weight interfered with his equestrian comfort , and ‘ upon one of the precipices , my horse , weary with the steepness of the rise , staggered a little , and I called in haste to the Highlander to hold him . |
| 12 | But like a number of other people before me I turned and I turned in response to totally unnecessary violence . |
| 13 | The gaming world in part consists of four main islands ( there are rumours of more ! ) and this nicely breaks up the game and avoids the feeling of a bland and repetitive world , ( why does that Island concept ring a bell ? ) and you move from Island to Island by looking at a map and selecting your destination ( sounds VERY familiar ! ) . |
| 14 | Ill health forced her abroad in 1885 and she returned to England to the Trafalgar Square riots of 1886 . |
| 15 | The helmsman and the engineer controlled her easily and she reacted without hesitation to all commands , naturally much faster than a sailing vessel . |
| 16 | If only Kit could enjoy the scenes he made , she thought , instead of being eaten alive with remorse , and she stuttered in response to the Panther 's exaltation , ‘ I 'm with you , I did n't want to do anything you would n't like . ’ |
| 17 | Her legs began to hurt and she considered from time to time the possibility of varicose veins . |
| 18 | The only thing that changes is our bodily condition , soul comes into the body and we go from birth to death , and how I look at it is that death is like taking your suit off . |
| 19 | The People 's Hotel is on a grand scale , and we drive in style to the Foreign Language Institute , where our course takes place , every day , in company with Comrade Gao ( Ministry of Education ) , Comrade Yu ( our local interpreter ) and Comrade Wu ( a lady in her forties who is accompanying us on the rest of our tour ) . |
| 20 | And mis the the constructors here they loaned us different equipment and we worked from Monday to Friday getting the things ready we worked all day Saturday doing the show , and we worked all day Sunday clearing the field ! |
| 21 | When newspapers first speculated that Lady Dartmouth was to replace the Earl of Dartmouth with the divorced Earl Spencer , a then-unknown Lady Sarah Spencer gave the memorable quote : ‘ Since my grandfather died last June and we moved from Sandringham to Althorp Park , Lady Dartmouth has been an all-too-frequent visitor . ’ |
| 22 | Erm I would like to take advantage of the things that I have actually done myself as a member of the Stansted Airport Consultative Committee and also as a member of Advisory Committee because I am Stansted representative and we meet from time to time and as apart from transport . |
| 23 | Things were indeed hotting up again ; and they seemed to Owen to be hotting up chiefly on the Moslem side . |
| 24 | The processors are clocked at 25MHz with 256Kb of non-write-through cache , and they come with 16Mb to 192Mb memory , with support for up to 88Gb disk . |
| 25 | The cattle landed at Holyhead , Birkenhead and Fishguard ; and they came by rail to Norwich . |
| 26 | She slipped her hand through the crook of his arm once they emerged into the foyer and they walked in silence to the lift to go down to the basement car park . |
| 27 | He liked young women students , and they responded with delight to him . |
| 28 | They say it was a computerised letter which got through and they apologise in advance to any other tenant who might have got one . |
| 29 | The boat had a crew of twenty , and they laboured from dawn to dusk in two shifts to keep the clumsy craft moving against the current , poling it away from sand-bars and small , reed-covered islands . |
| 30 | Inter alia , the Regulations also specify the information which is to be included in a claim , and they allow for interest to be charged when a provisional repayment proves to be excessive . |