Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] [vb pp] to [noun prp] " in BNC.
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1 | Do not fall , either , for the argument that America must have the oil underneath the refuge to reduce its dependence on foreign oil — at a time when , despite the greenhouse effect , the American government has all but abandoned incentives for energy efficiency and has repeatedly bowed to Detroit 's absurd demand that it relax its drive for fuel-efficient car engines . |
2 | The Freshman Consultancy opened in January 1991 in offices near London 's Euston station and has since moved to Chamber Street in E1 near Tower Hill . |
3 | the pair were spending a season in New Zealand at the invitation of McIntosh 's elder brother , Shane , who had himself played for Pontypridd and has recently returned to Britain to play for West of Scotland . |
4 | On that occasion the site was taken over by the Vickers-Armstrong aircraft factory but it was never suitably repaired and racing never returned to Brooklands . |
5 | The Left , like most people in Britain , had been brought up to regard Britain as a world power and had not adjusted to Britain 's real weakness . |
6 | Before the War , he had visited Europe , worked in the kitchen of a London hotel , and had then gone to Moscow . |
7 | Mrs Knelle 's boy had attended a similar boarding school to the Cistercian college , and had then gone to Maynooth , a prestigious Dublin seminary for priests . |
8 | She had embraced Simon , patting his face and exclaiming over his bruised eye , and had then flown to Isabel , taking her in her arms and weeping over her enough , so her husband had said , to raise the level of the lake . |
9 | The only clue so far discovered of any value to a possible dating of his return is the fact that , according to Bursali Mehmed Tahir , there exists a copy of one of his most famous works , the written in his own hand , presented to Mehmed II , and dated 878/1473–4 it would not thus be unreasonable to suppose that Molla Husrev wrote the copy especially for Mehmed II , this in turn suggesting that by 878 Molla Husrev had made up his quarrel with the sultan and had perhaps returned to Istanbul . |
10 | But Premier League champions Manchester United and double cup-winners Arsenal are also in the hunt and have both spoken to Keane , even though he has already agreed personal terms on a lucrative four-year contract offered by Blackburn manager Kenny Dalglish . |
11 | She praised Nigel and Becky Hobday , who were treasurer and membership secretary respectively , and have now moved to Romsey , for their contribution to the association . |
12 | We pledged ( and have now paid to RSNC ) £5,000 . |