Example sentences of "and [adv] to [art] [noun] [unc] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Everything depended on this , and much to the RAF 's surprise anddelight , they beat the French … although the Portuguese won the event . |
| 2 | In Spain , in contrast to Britain , the emergence and form of public enterprise owed little to the aspirations of the labour movement , and much to the state 's own organizational interests . |
| 3 | The first round produced no other surprises but credit must go to Fourth Division Birmingham University who played defending champions Bere Forest and , against the odds and much to the crowd 's delight , took a first half lead before Forest eventually came back strongly to win 4–1 . |
| 4 | Its reputation was partly due to its grotesque appearance , and also to the snake 's uncanny ability to appear out of nowhere and deliver a lethal strike , sometimes in total darkness . |
| 5 | And now to the government 's plan to sell off British Rail . |
| 6 | Although it is actually possible to regress a patient to babyhood and even to the mother 's womb , I felt that perhaps in Maxine 's case we should try past-life regression ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 7 | In each of these contexts — HMI reports , APU exercises or national reading surveys — to move from national assessment to a local authority assessment and then to a school 's performance ( summed up in the achievement of its individual pupils ) provided a method of finding out whether , in some of the measurable parts of schools ' work , matters were standing still or edging forward . |
| 8 | He pointed to the picture of the woman above Oliver 's head and then to the boy 's face . |
| 9 | Edward IV himself fell into the rebels ' hands and was sent prisoner first to Warwick castle and then to the Nevilles ' northern stronghold of Middleham in Wensleydale . |
| 10 | Edward IV himself fell into the rebels ' hands and was sent prisoner first to Warwick castle and then to the Nevilles ' northern stronghold of Middleham in Wensleydale . |
| 11 | Its origins go back to the rediscovery of perspective in the Renaissance , and then to the architect 's drawings of the eighteenth century . |
| 12 | He staggered back , half tripped on the cockpit coaming , scrambled up to the deck and then to the ship 's rail . |
| 13 | Alice went back into the house and upstairs to the Headmaster 's Study . |
| 14 | There seemed nothing else to be said , and Melissa went out of the room and upstairs to the secretary 's office , where , in response to her request to use the phone , Marie-Claire grudgingly pushed the instrument across her desk . |
| 15 | ‘ Dover to Calais , across Normandy to the Porte St Denis , and either to the Rue des Medeans or across Paris through the Porte D'Orleans to the Chateau de Maubisson . ’ |