Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] [verb] [noun] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's all right for me — I can close my eyes for a moment , and stroke my beard , and make little gasping noises to myself . |
| 2 | With the support of the government agriculture research institute ( INIAP ) in Ecuador , I would have systematically to travel through the Amazon region of Ecuador , locating the wild cocoa and bringing back planting material to my base at the Napo Research Station . |
| 3 | Physically he is unusually sturdy and has not fallen prey to illness during his long confinement . |
| 4 | Like all Far Easterners , Chan likes his action thick and fast and has since fallen victim to a perversion of the game known as Pai Gau poker — a game of pure chance , played as fast as mah-jong for very large amounts of money . |
| 5 | He lowered the horse 's left foreleg and came back to lift Isabel to the ground . |
| 6 | Trichlorethylene and tetrachlorethylene used in dry cleaning and degreasing also pose threats to health , especially through contamination of groundwater , and have been detected in tapwater . |
| 7 | Now suppose that the government of this country believes that curve A represents a permanent trade-off between unemployment and inflation and chooses therefore to reduce unemployment to U* by increasing the rate of growth of the nominal money supply . |
| 8 | Conventionality and Contrast together allow speakers to be consistent from one occasion to the next in their uses of the conventional meanings assigned to linguistic forms , and to maintain the same form-meaning pairings over time . |
| 9 | Yet another partnership prospered beyond 100 , the third in succession , and Sohail eventually cut Salisbury to the pavilion boundary to reach 203 after 5½ hours in the middle . |
| 10 | Last year , she was the yuppie careerist Marion in Steven Jeffreys ' award-winning Valued Friends at Hampstead and went on to lend credibility to the Royal Court 's fairly ludicrous Sleeping Nightie . |
| 11 | He turned his back and went in to say goodbye to his wife . |
| 12 | The challenge was to plan and implement a strategy which would help give them jobs , to ensure that potential employers were aware of this trained workforce and knew how to gain access to it . |
| 13 | FitzAlan dismounted and reached up to lift Isabel to the ground . |
| 14 | The team ran two dummy inspections , testing the effectiveness of forms and learning how to get access to the information . |
| 15 | Attention decrement can be compared to the order effect in cases where subjects ‘ hold on ’ to initial words and do n't pay attention to later words — ; ‘ tended to remember first 3 adjectives better than last 3 ’ . |
| 16 | If you are staying in a caravan or tent and do n't have access to a refrigerator , buy food only as you need it . |
| 17 | Firstly because editors and journalists and so forth get an awful lot of them , and do n't have time to pore over them , and secondly because they pick them up , they sort of come in , they look at it and say , ‘ I ca n't see how I can use this . ’ |
| 18 | In asking questions , therefore , try to do this in an uncritical way and do not present ones to which there is a simple answer of ‘ yes ’ or ‘ no ’ . |
| 19 | The Channel Islands and the Isle of Man have substantially more independent systems of government , and do not send MPs to Westminster . |
| 20 | that decisions are made for the right reasons and do not run counter to deeply held attitudes or beliefs |
| 21 | It was pleasant to lie and think of other Februaries and see himself abroad at dusk in the fields under a chilling rain , standing in a cart hunched up against the storm , bending and rising and bending again to toss turnips to the streaming cattle , listening to their soft thud in the mud and the straining of the horse as his hooves sucked and sank , the cattle lowing plaintively and the sharp crunch of their scooping teeth . |
| 22 | As a formal procedure , this is today rare and serves mainly to attract publicity to the cause in question . |
| 23 | ‘ Alice ’ was a jolly girl and did not give way to deep depression as another ‘ Army ’ mother had done on finding that baby would not be a Major as her father was . |
| 24 | Most of the expenditure was outside the dollar area , and did not give rise to immediate dollar payments . |
| 25 | Ruth 's hair was out of shape and did n't do justice to her strong bone structure so stylist Caroline Stacey , also from Keith Hall the Hairdressers , but from their Leicester salon , decided to take the weight out of the back leaving the top longer . |
| 26 | Er er er I mentioned er in an earlier interjection the fact that Price Waterhouse in this country er would n't give evidence and did n't provide information to Price Waterhouse partners er er i i in the United States er er the government I think , can only er deal with this by some effective regulation er of auditing er and by some er er effective er independent regulate . |
| 27 | They looked together at the one about the woman who had said she would give anything for a child , of any kind , even a hedgehog , and had duly given birth to a monster , half-hedgehog , half-boy . |
| 28 | The summer of 1984 was a glorious one , the West Indian team was one of their strongest and had just beaten Australia 3–0 ; the England team , with some of the top players banned after going to South Africa , was one of their most ordinary and had just lost series to Pakistan and New Zealand for the first time , and it was all rather one-sided . |
| 29 | And beckoning along drifting strata to the tug |
| 30 | A band could sign a recording contract , or receive income from live performances or session fees ( the receipt of prize money from a talent contest is tax free and does not give rise to taxable income unless this occurs on a regular basis ) . |