Example sentences of "and [verb] [to-vb] [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In 1167 his army had been decimated before Rome by an outbreak of malaria ; and he had been chased over the Alps in humiliating disaster ; but still he plotted and planned to return to the task .
2 Once both cylinder banks had been separated from the crankcase , the 12 pistons were drawn from the liners and boiled to free off the rings and gudgeon pins prior to their removal .
3 At the major shows , winners are often exposed to the glare of television lights , and expected to parade for the cameras as well , before journeying back home after a long day .
4 I chose a time when I knew the Trunchbull was out of the way teaching the sixth-formers , and I put up my hand and asked to go to the bogs .
5 The crew was accused of trespassing and asked to leave by the police , who were called by the vicar when they arrived
6 Their names were taken from Amal 's brother , but by the time they were collected and asked to appear before the police for statements they had taken great pains to prepare their story .
7 I was put off at Smith field and asked to get to the Strand as best I could for another bus .
8 Later that evening Heathcliff 's servant Joseph arrived and asked to speak to the master .
9 On returning to the ward somewhat shaken myself I made the patient as comfortable as I could and asked to speak to the ward sister , who was fortunately very experienced and prepared to believe what I told her .
10 As befits the objects of homosexual desire at that time , this new generation of teenybop pop stars were ‘ boy slaves ’ — more Limply Leslie than Rape Hunger — and failed to emerge from the pin-up process with their masculinity intact .
11 When The Elder Statesman received less than adulatory notices , and failed to succeed at the box office , he was noticeably calm in his reaction .
12 This followed a complaint alleging that he had issued a buffet receipt to two young passengers in lieu of a travel ticket and failed to account for the £5 received .
13 Besides , hearing of cases brought by the state against thieves who passed their finds to dealers on the black market and failed to report to the Commission on Antiquities ended his youthful enthusiasm for archaeology : Davide was law-abiding by temperament .
14 The defendant did not appeal and failed to comply with the notices .
15 As a food and store safety officer , I felt dismayed and frustrated to see in the Journal , members of staff wearing inappropriate jewellery and , in high risk areas , all hair not kept within hats .
16 When they declined to do as requested and sought to push through the police cordon , the appellants were arrested , and later convicted of obstructing the police in the execution of their duty .
17 Two rival groups from the capital , London Olympic 2000 and the London Council for Sport and Recreation , finally settled their differences and agreed to unite as the London Olympic 2000 Campaign .
18 The plaintiffs were dealers in second hand lorries and agreed to transfer to the defendants two lorries for £475 and take in exchange two other lorries valued at £225 , provided they were delivered within one month .
19 Recruits were forced to march along dusty tracks on their knees , packs on their backs , caps held above their heads ; they were woken and made to hop on the spot , half-naked and loaded down with sandbags , for two to three hours .
20 But what sort of a man was it who could be kidnapped , bundled into a cart and made to lie on the floor under a rug with a gun at his head while being driven halfway across the city on a cold November afternoon — and then just calmly and quietly fall fast asleep ?
21 We were ordered into the service area off the kitchen and made to sit on the floor .
22 Ariel clasps Roukoubé and runs towards the sea ; the shadows conceal her , she hears the shot , but then she splashes into the shoals and turns to run along the tideline to keep her bearings in the dark .
23 City life , even in the environs of Kensington Palace , is a trial to the Prince ; he feels suffocated by London and longs to escape to the country and be at one with nature .
24 We share that judgement and intend to continue with the passage of the Bill . ’
25 So I joined the half-dozen speechless loners and got to work on the Sidecars .
26 It was these crafts — cordwainers , girdlers , fishmongers , wool-packers , for example — which formed the heart of the popular movement , having greatly expanded in numbers during the previous hundred years yet been excluded from political power and forbidden to organize by the aldermen .
27 As a result seventeen players were suspended for six months , fined a total of £900 , and forbidden to play for the club again .
28 The injustice to the home-owner is sometimes made worse by the fact that very often he has n't the money to pay for the repairs and has to borrow from the bank in order to pay the bill .
29 The justification for using a hierarchy is mathematical , and has to do with the way in which the total variability of a collection is successively reduced as one passes from higher to lower levels in the hierarchy .
30 Application is an empirical evaluation based on teaching experience and has to do with the devising of effective techniques specific to particular circumstances .
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