Example sentences of "and [verb] to [pron] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her thin denim jacket was sodden and clung to her like a wet tea towel . |
| 2 | Within a mere three weeks the Smolensk Party authorities also required all uezd executive committees to collate , check , and comment to them on the minutes of every single peasant meeting on mutual aid . |
| 3 | And the thing growled and howled to itself in the centre of its blind struggle . |
| 4 | And thins to nothing but the wish I made |
| 5 | Will my hon. Friend the Minister bear it in mind that many of the frauds that have come to the attention of our regulating authorities were first discovered and reported to them by the American SEC ? |
| 6 | Carrefour sat on a low wall that stretched out from the side of a building , leaning his back against the building 's wall and tootling to himself on a child 's flute . |
| 7 | The temple bells were clanging to their climax as Ramlal hurried past the door , clutching his precious document , and laughing to himself at the thought that the God had got nothing from him at all . |
| 8 | He shook his head and clucked to himself like the White Rabbit in Alice . |
| 9 | Now calm down , and listen to me for a minute . |
| 10 | Listen , listen to me , when it 's finished , instead of putting it in the box we 'll put it on that other one and listen to it for a wee while |
| 11 | The issue is even more complicated in the world of sound recording , because we can not pick up a record and listen to it in the same way that we can pick up a book and read it . |
| 12 | As far as I was concerned it was a nightmare , and merged in my memory with actually being evacuated ; the kids going down to Ladywell station in a crocodile on one side of the road , clutching oranges and bars of chocolate , and the mothers on the other , weeping and wailing and shouting to us across the street , lots of dwarfs and lots of Snow Whites . |
| 13 | He blinked , and came to himself with a start . |
| 14 | She gave the king 's son honey to eat , and played to him on a golden zither , whose strings she brushed with a silver feather . |
| 15 | In front of the gate and connected to it by a high causeway was a tall grey watchtower whose summit commanded the approach down the valley . |
| 16 | We need biblical ways of practising the presence of God and to listen to him in the power of his Spirit . |
| 17 | Rather than spend too long on developing a perfect composition , I settled for a core arrangement of objects that looked good together and added to it as the drawing and colouring progressed . |
| 18 | and told to us in the days before he died |
| 19 | Henry himself never had anything interesting to do ) , he squeezed close to the wall and coughed to himself in an extra drab way . |
| 20 | I found one guy and talked to him for a while on tape . |
| 21 | This suggests that with to the infinitive 's event is conceived as something which is known and attributed to someone as a result of experience . |
| 22 | ‘ To heaven , of course , ’ said Dotty tartly , seizing an enormous wooden spoon and advancing upon an iron saucepan which had been rumbling and grumbling to itself throughout the conversation . |
| 23 | He sank it and turned to me with a real glint in his eye and said something like , ‘ Now let's go . ’ |
| 24 | She saw us as allies and babbled to us in a mixture of French and Arabic throughout the hymns , then sighed loudly and looked out of the window as the prayers droned on . |
| 25 | When parents relate to their children as if they were partners and look to them for the support and even sexual comfort that should come from other adults , the boundary surrounding and protecting childhood is broken . |
| 26 | I attach a copy of a standard contract which I would be grateful if you could sign and return to me with the invoice for your fee . |
| 27 | Labour candidate Frank Cook told Mr Fowler to recognise the difficulties of thousands of pensioners and families in the constituency living below the poverty line , and to apologise to them for the agony 13 years of Tory rule has caused them . |
| 28 | That 's really the interpretation of extrovert and introvert and the fact that it can apply to you know being loud and gregarious as an extrovert or being quiet and keeps to himself as an introvert that 's more of a popular view which is n't the sort of thing we 're trying to put across . |
| 29 | Go and talk to somebody from the library . ’ |
| 30 | Both Mr Megrahi and Mr Fhima told me they would be happy to meet Scottish or American investigators and talk to them about the case . ’ |