Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carrie had been listening intently , enthralled and hanging on to the union man 's every word , but she suddenly caught sight of Fred standing at the counter . |
| 2 | I drove to the hospital in Bangor with Nathan watching the road intently and hanging on to the handbrake . |
| 3 | In all this , he was backed by Lavinia although her main interest lay in trying to keep their heads above water and hanging on to the estate . |
| 4 | The Immense parasites twining round the trees taking root some of them at the tops of the trees and hanging down to the ground , others surrounding the trees like a crown — heard the bell bird with his incessant ting ting , the coachwhip bird & c. — a heavy shower of rain accompanied by lightning — soon cleared up — every green thing looked more beautiful for its sprinkling . ’ |
| 5 | The schoolmaster of St. Andrews was ambitious ‘ and aspires eagerly to the dignity of being professor of humanity in this university ’ . |
| 6 | For a whiff the strong white birds floated proudly there , diving , clearing the weed , and waddling over to the house when my father summoned them , for food and to be shut up for the night . |
| 7 | Willie blushed and clung on to the top of the blankets . |
| 8 | The exposure of the scandal blighted the careers of several leading politicians and led ultimately to the resignation of Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita in May 1989 . |
| 9 | Its door could be opened from the inside and led directly to the corridor . |
| 10 | It crossed the River Carrow and led directly to the estates of the rich . |
| 11 | Flat roofs are laid with a slight slope so that rainwater can be collected by conventional gutters and led down to the drains . |
| 12 | ‘ You will load your aeroplanes with T.N.T. , ’ he said , ‘ fly in line-astern to Corps H.Q. , and crash on to the roof of the Corps commander 's chateau , in alphabetical order . ’ |
| 13 | The ‘ physical access ’ option allows users to by-pass the server 's print spooler and connect directly to the printer . |
| 14 | But the US ( with the UK in tow ) shaped up for war with Iraq and steamed off to the Gulf to protect their own interests , saying that they were doing so on behalf of the whole world . |
| 15 | Not only was she a founder of Playschool , and responsible for commissioning Postman Pat , Bertha the Big Machine and Charlie Chalk for the BBC ; but when Playschool came under threat she formed her own independent production company to make — and sell back to the BBC — a modern replacement for it : the current Playdays ( first known as Playbus ) . |
| 16 | Now , this is not an Oxford cartoon either , but it 's a looting soldier , and very much , I think , underlines what people felt about soldiers around the place , and to go back to the overcrowding , erm the great problem was that constantly not only soldiers , but a great many other people , court officials , court servants , barbers , whoever , erm all had to found accommodation , and because St Aldate 's was so near the court , a great many of them were of course connected with the court , they had some high ranking ones . |
| 17 | The move towards NVQs and SVQs is taking place across all industries at all levels within the industry , from engineering and manufacturing through to the provision of health and social care , from the operative to the manager . |
| 18 | Mrs. Mounce jumped out of the armchair and twinkled away to the door . |
| 19 | and read up to the summer |
| 20 | Though not lettered , Lehzen read ( and read aloud to the princess ) and imparted to the child a love of history . |
| 21 | The decisive customer knows what she wants and goes straight to the counter to ask for the item she requires . |
| 22 | First , do we really accept that a man in the act of undressing suddenly decides halfway through that he will hang himself and goes up to the garret without his boots on to carry out the terrible act ? |
| 23 | He turns his back and goes over to the chest of drawers , his brown bottom wiggling at Mark . |
| 24 | She takes out this dark red dress with these big white dots and goes over to the mirror . |
| 25 | She lifts her eyebrows at me and then stands up and goes over to the sink . |
| 26 | If there are no more loans to be entered , the user presses the RETURN key and goes back to the options list . |
| 27 | Howard escapes from the hospital and goes back to the scene of the robbery where everything is strangely familiar . |
| 28 | She loses interest and goes back to the television . |
| 29 | She turns and goes back to the house . |
| 30 | Roy , 37 , even leaves Janette in the dead of night and goes down to the bar hoping to catch a glimpse of his beloved spirit . |