Example sentences of "and [verb] [verb] [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since the MBO , BSM has started to refurbish its branches , launched a motorway test and sought to move closer to the corporate fleet market by offering courses on risk minimisation to corporate drivers . |
| 2 | The situation in Powys reflects that in Wales as a whole and has contributed especially to the threat to upland broadleaved woodlands but also to the losses of heather moor , rough grassland and to the degradation of species-rich pastures . |
| 3 | In the case of one interactional variable , the agreement-marking " you know what I mean " , it seems fairly certain that this originated in the Caribbean community and has spread outwards to the wider community of LE speakers . |
| 4 | Not given to self-pity , he heaved the problem out of his mind and tried to look forward to the challenges of tomorrow , but weariness overtook him and he retired to the shed and his mothy sleeping bag . |
| 5 | The passengers , replete with the lamb and chocolate mousse , lingered over coffee , and began to drift away to the dome car 's bar lounge . |
| 6 | He passed Responsions that June and began to look forward to the payments he would get for his journalism — especially for his ‘ prose poems ’ in the Speaker . |
| 7 | I eventually got off the motorway and decided to drive straight to the hospital to see Toby , and paused only to buy him some fruit and a bottle of his favourite Bollinger . |
| 8 | Bob Sclater , Orkney 's harbours director , reported yesterday that the ship had listed 20 degrees to starboard and had shifted closer to the cliff face . |
| 9 | Sonny , alarmed at the deathly pallor of his half-sister 's face , had jumped into the trap and had driven furiously to the village for the doctor . |
| 10 | Similarly in Rex v. Bishop of Ely , 5 Durn. & E. 475 the applicant had been removed as a fellow of Jesus College , Cambridge , and had appealed unsuccessfully to the bishop as visitor . |
| 11 | I do n't like to use food that is out of season and prefer to look forward to the summer strawberries and autumn game . |
| 12 | Talking things over with them , however simply , will help them to think for themselves and learn to look ahead to the possible consequences of their actions . |
| 13 | If the published rates were basically those applicable to the Home Counties and tended to decline proportionately to the distance from the metropolis , many labourers and servants in the provinces may not have earned enough to be assessed . |