Example sentences of "and [vb base] [adv] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It occurred to her that most people , her former self included , would not walk away from an attack by a homicidal transvestite and sit down to a healthy breakfast . |
| 2 | The effect of evacuation was to flood the dark places with light and bring home to the national consciousness that the ‘ submerged tenth ’ described by Charles Booth still exists in our towns like a hidden sore , poor , dirty and crude in its habits , an intolerable and degrading burden to decent people forced by poverty to neighbour with it . |
| 3 | I 'll tell you another thing , whatever the Spitting Images say about John he pays his money , he does n't grab his bermuda shorts and a wristwatch and fly off to the sunny islands . |
| 4 | Maybe Bunny could learn to moonlight on a mainframe somewhere and tap in to a whole new reference work of nubile young ladies . |
| 5 | Ranulf sprang up , pleased to abandon the fresh air of the country and head back to the seamy streets of London and the rounded pleasure-giving body of Mistress Semplar . |
| 6 | If he can not accept it , can he at least dispatch a team of Scottish Office officials to see matters on the ground and report back to the Scottish Office on the grim situation faced by the islands ? |
| 7 | But in both cases we find that these molecules are expressed at the correct developmental stage and localize normally to the putative NMJ sites in the absence of the motor neuron ( Fig. 1 ) . |
| 8 | 4 Have a variety of ideas ready to throw into the conversation and listen carefully to the resulting discussion . |
| 9 | ‘ The Newquay crowd just pose in Beetles covered in stickers and show off to the dodgy girls hanging around on Fistral beach , ’ opines Adam , who claims he 'd only visit the town to compete . |
| 10 | Keep moving right and you should find the concert permit , jump up onto the purple wall and walk right to the other side , get one of the three crates and kill the mugger , then walk to the right and jump up three platforms to reach a heart , fall down to where you started then climb down the ladder with a crate , kill the workman , go down another level and kill the mugger ( avoiding the dog ) , go down another level , climb down the ladder and go down again , you can risk hitting the wire and flame to collect the records ( macho time again ) , climb down a final ladder and jump off to the left . |
| 11 | We 'll visit the Jewish quarter , count statues of Saints on the famous Charles Bridge and walk up to the Presidential Palace area , stopping to see the wax figurine of the infant Jesus and to rest in the lovely gardens . |
| 12 | Daisy had brought her sketch pad , but found it difficult to capture the action and hold on to a straining Ethel . |
| 13 | Slightly overbend it and bend back to the correct angle |
| 14 | Pipe the words START and FINISH on to the top left and bottom right squares , and then pipe numbers on to the squares in consecutive order . |
| 15 | Thousands turn up for parties every weekend and tune in to the national radio show he does with Djaimin . |
| 16 | Later child psychologists have noted how older children find and hang on to a favoured object such as a rag . |
| 17 | We shall also be celebrating our 40th Anniversary in 1992 and look forward to a national celebration in or close to London . |
| 18 | The weekend should have been the danger period , not a Tuesday , a nothing day of the week when nobody did anything other than look back wistfully on the pleasures behind them and look forward to the unformed pleasures ahead . |
| 19 | A progressively tax and transfer system takes most from the rich and give most to the poor . |
| 20 | She just wanted to sink back into the dream and give in to the lovely floating sensation . |
| 21 | And er one day I was bathing Judy in the hut and the bell went and I just had to wrap a towel round her , you know , and run down to the sandy wadders And things got so bad , we went back to Khartoum |
| 22 | Fig 27 As you pass through the eye of the wind you need to transfer both back hand and foot to the mast and get round to the other side as quickly as possible ; a small jump is often the best way . |
| 23 | Kids in shorts can stick My Own Meal , Kids Kitchen and Kid Cuisine ( all from Campbells ) in the little box , turn the knob , wait briefly , unload , zap down their food and get back to the major business of life , the latest video . |
| 24 | Visitors were able to see sheep shearing and cattle milking and get close to the docile farm animals . |
| 25 | At Gédre , you can turn off the Gavarnie road to the east and drive up to the alternative Cirque de Troumouse . |
| 26 | Colour a little piece of fondant brown and roll out to a small strip . |
| 27 | Take about three-quarters of the fondant ( about 675g/1½lb ) and roll out to a large area . |
| 28 | Colour a third of the fondant ( about 450g/1lb ) dark blue and roll out to a large square . |
| 29 | But now many of them can stand up in front of the gate and talk back to the managing director . |
| 30 | We did n't so much run as squelch , slosh and slither up to the marching camp with the electric storm raging about us . |