Example sentences of "and [verb] to [pron] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her thin denim jacket was sodden and clung to her like a wet tea towel . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Now calm down , and listen to me for a minute . |
| 4 | 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 |
| 5 | He blinked , and came to himself with a start . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | I found one guy and talked to him for a while on tape . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He sank it and turned to me with a real glint in his eye and said something like , ‘ Now let's go . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I mean it 's very nice to be with a child , a baby , for about three or four hours , but after that you are quite grateful for somebody else to come and play with it for a while , and talk to it for a while . |
| 13 | Émile Chaillot told me that he had telephoned the writer and spoken to him for a good seven minutes about what was going on in the music world . |
| 14 | But as he drew level with Grace Richard gave her a smile which melted her heart , and waved to her in a way entirely peculiar to himself , half way between a naval salute and a discreet gesture with the rolled umbrella . |
| 15 | Like other conversational programs , it uses this big database to fit some sort of ‘ logical tree ’ to the growing narrative , and respond to it from a programmed strategy . |
| 16 | Alfieri takes Marco 's hand , and speaks to him like a wise older brother , giving him advice and trying hard to help him . |
| 17 | Which brings us back to the beginning , and the need to recognise a horse 's emotions and to respond to them in a way which will not rouse the horse 's fear or anger . |
| 18 | A couple of years earlier , when I was having a bad patch and went to him for a reassuring chat , he had told me not to worry about it . |
| 19 | ‘ Comm 's working , ’ she said , and listened to it for a few more moments . |
| 20 | There was a multitude of small tracks that began promisingly and died to nothing within a few yards , tracks that might be the paths of men or of deer , or wolves , or wild boar . |
| 21 | A pretty nest is selling puppies , he said , and sang to me of a nest ( not nurse ) from which puppies are hatched and sold , and there was a fireman and pedestrians with raincoats and walking-sticks , strolling the length of the roof as though it were an avenue , with a bright barber shop perched upon an antenna whose rust I could n't see . |
| 22 | And do n't forget , Joe was with me , and you know how careful he is. lee was at the party and one of the maids told me that she took him out of the party and spoke to him for a few minutes . |
| 23 | And Anwar was very patient with Changez , and spoke to him like a four-year-old , which was the right thing to do . |
| 24 | Periodically she turned to me and spoke to me like a teacher to a beloved but dull-witted child . |
| 25 | It 's one of my jobs to meet the boats and this involves assembling the visitors and talking to them for a short while about the wildlife and rules of the island . |
| 26 | I sat him up , and said to him in a new voice that he was not to try and move without me . |
| 27 | Anna looked at Peter again and said to herself in a guilty whisper , ‘ Will he become even more difficult ? ’ |
| 28 | And Jeannie , I remember Jeannie well and wrote to her for a while , but she was not much of a correspondent . ’ |
| 29 | This is one where I put the price up and then we went and wrote to him with a net price list showing a lower price than I 'd put up and we had to reduce it . |
| 30 | A solution is to make the following adjustments and stick to them for a few days while the body clock follows the lead given by your altered life-style . |