Example sentences of "and [verb] to the [noun pl] ' " in BNC.
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1 | They went along with populist solutions to problems that if not actually created by the Nazis , had certainly been worked on and exaggerated to the Nazis ' own advantage . |
2 | By writ dated 6 August 1991 the plaintiffs in the first action , Barclays Bank Plc. claimed £389,431 from the defendants , Glasgow City Council , being moneys had and received to the plaintiffs ' use as having been paid under void contracts ; or contracts for which the consideration had totally failed ; which were traceable by the plaintiffs into the hands of the defendants , the retention of which would be unconscionable ; which would cause the defendants to be unjustly enriched ; or which the defendants held upon an implied or resulting or constructive trust in favour of the plaintiffs ; or to which the plaintiffs were entitled on the grounds that the defendants had spent the money on their lawful activities or applied them towards the discharge of their liabilities . |
3 | But one diver always remains in the bell to act as bellman and , in an emergency , lock out and go to the divers ' aid . |
4 | I did n't have a lot of success doing that , so I decided to chance my arm and go to the players ' hotel . |
5 | At one point , Joan rose from the table and went to the ladies ' room . |
6 | And to add to the Blues ' tale of woe , Glen Keeley became the first player to be sent off on his debut in a Merseyside derby . |
7 | Lunch with Paloma Picasso , friendships with the supermodels , front-row seats at the shows and invites to the designers ' private dinners afterwards , fashion advice from her friend at Vogue . |
8 | On the rare occasions when we went away for a fortnight — to my grandfather 's dank cottage on the Welsh border , land of the slate grey sky — I could hardly wait to get back and listen to the two-weeks ' worth of messages crammed on my answering machine . |