Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His lean , muscular body was tanned , presumably from his years in Australia , and while the hair on his legs had turned to gold the triangle of hair on his chest was dark and tapered away to a point at the base of his flat stomach , disappearing beneath the band of his black swimming-trunks . |
| 2 | A rough-looking man with dark slicked-back hair and heavy eyebrows popped his head into the bus and shouted jubilantly to a friend , ‘ Come in , there 's a funeral wi' free whiskey ! ’ |
| 3 | Then the atoms are projected upwards with velocity of 2.5 m s -1 ; and cooled further to a temperature of 2.8 K. They are then optically pumped into the F=3 hyperfine level and pass through the microwave interaction region where they experience the first pulse of tunable microwaves centred close to the F=3 to F=4 transition at about 9.2 GHz . |
| 4 | It was a brave decision : MacArthur was extremely popular ( a Gallop Poll reported 69% in his favour ) , and returned home to a hero 's welcome . |
| 5 | The taxi had stopped eventually at a crossroads in a suburb , and the target had paid it off and walked straight to a man who waited on the pavement . |
| 6 | Kandinskaya stared hard at her and said , ‘ The first one was apparently plucked out of its route between Mars and Andronicus and whisked away to a place in the asteroid belt some seventy-nine degrees away from here . |
| 7 | Alternatively , you can have a sample of blood taken and sent away to a laboratory for a much fuller analysis . |
| 8 | He got up and went across to a bureau in the corner furthest from the fire , returning a moment later with a folder which he handed to the T'ang . |
| 9 | Coleworthy was a knowledgeable woodsman and knew exactly to a foot the value of all standing timber , every small spruce seedling on his land . |
| 10 | Having said that , he enjoyed the depth of conviction to be heard at a conventicle and slipped away to a service on the muirs above the village as often as he was able to do so . |
| 11 | Proposals may be initiated by pressure groups and filtered thence to a department , or to a party programme prior to its acceding to power . |