Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] to [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Standing stork-like and hanging on to the various bathroom fittings , she cleaned her teeth and made a reasonable toilet .
2 Owen drew breath and plunged back to the little group , still hemmed into a few yards of the pathway .
3 It occurred to her that most people , her former self included , would not walk away from an attack by a homicidal transvestite and sit down to a healthy breakfast .
4 We have been asked to give that up and to go over to the European Community system , with the European Court and majority voting — the shoe is pinching all the time .
5 A day to unwind and slow down to the leisurely pace of a Greek Cruise .
6 This central role for private property has a long history in European thought and goes back to the eighteenth-century notion of the social contract .
7 I bundled him into the care and zoomed off to the nearby University Herbarium with a whole leaf of the plant .
8 Once or twice a week Howard climbs into the station wagon and drives over to the little market town fifteen miles away .
9 At Bragança there was no response from the tower as we transmitted our intentions , landed and taxied in to the little apron .
10 A strangely-deserted sidewalk , Rex noted as he leapt out of the cab and stalked over to the fallen driver .
11 On seeking to patent his process , Castner discovered that a similar patent had been lodged in Germany by Karl Kellner and made over to the powerful Solvay Company in Belgium .
12 Perhaps it is repetitive , but not for the sake of repetition , as each phrase carries a different emphasis and builds on to the prior phase for effect .
13 Then he crouched over it and squared up to an imaginary ball .
14 On the night of Friday , 8th September , the barrier was broken through and rescue workers wearing breathing apparatus were able to take hot food and drinks through to the trapped men .
15 The trouble was that the salt had permeated the walls and penetrated through to the other side , where beads of moisture coming through the plaster accounted for the detachment of the wallpaper , which by this time was hanging loose in a depressing and derelict manner .
16 Darlington was only the second date on the tour and got off to a bad start with a trip from Manchester through freezing fog arriving late and cold .
17 Duncan had been appalled to find that women had the vote ‘ down South ’ and got off to a shaky start in the motor trade when one of the local spivs conned him into thinking a Pina Colada was the latest model Ford built in Spain .
18 Well I 've been off work for a bit and got back to a massive 156 messages from the group !
19 And I started another one and I said no I wo n't be able to this and got back to the other one and did the other one . .
20 If he 's been largely absent from the small screen for the last two years ( the South Bank Show spoof , Norbert Smith , was a revamp of an old idea ) , that 's because he 's unplugged the phone , taken time out with his two old drinking pals and got down to the serious business of mucking about .
21 As Vimla pirouetted , pulling her sari over her head in a parody of the Dance of the Seven Veils , Chaman Guru put down the cymbals and got down to the serious business of collecting money .
22 That may be half of what Darren paid for it , but in absolute terms it 's incredibly low depreciation over 40,000 and adds up to an excellent value motoring package .
23 Members of the committee visited the institution in rotation and reported back to the full committee .
24 She shut the trunk and moved on to a large cardboard box .
25 Channel 4 says the show recognises its audience may already have left sexual theory behind and moved on to the practical side of the subject .
26 They left me and moved on to the little Jewish family .
27 Barn owls used to breed in the hay bales but when these were shifted the birds objected and moved off to the nearby quarry .
28 I 'll tell you another thing , whatever the Spitting Images say about John he pays his money , he does n't grab his bermuda shorts and a wristwatch and fly off to the sunny islands .
29 Maybe Bunny could learn to moonlight on a mainframe somewhere and tap in to a whole new reference work of nubile young ladies .
30 Ranulf sprang up , pleased to abandon the fresh air of the country and head back to the seamy streets of London and the rounded pleasure-giving body of Mistress Semplar .
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