Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv prt] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Owen drew breath and plunged back to the little group , still hemmed into a few yards of the pathway . |
| 2 | I bundled him into the care and zoomed off to the nearby University Herbarium with a whole leaf of the plant . |
| 3 | At Bragança there was no response from the tower as we transmitted our intentions , landed and taxied in to the little apron . |
| 4 | A strangely-deserted sidewalk , Rex noted as he leapt out of the cab and stalked over to the fallen driver . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | It is possible for teachers to keep a personal notebook which does not form part of the record and is not open to subject access , but if information is intended to be used officially and passed on to the next teacher it should be treated in the same way as the formal record . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | Members of the committee visited the institution in rotation and reported back to the full committee . |
| 12 | On a nod from Richie , Patrick left them to it and moved over to the first tee . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | No movement , no luck With a silent curse he extricated himself from the first trap and moved on to the next |
| 15 | The young hijacker laughed again and moved on to the next seat . |
| 16 | If the guess was correct the subject was told so and moved on to the next letter . |
| 17 | Er , most officers would have accepted it and moved on to the next subject . |
| 18 | ‘ No idea , ’ replied the young lieutenant , and moved on to the next bed . |
| 19 | They left me and moved on to the little Jewish family . |
| 20 | Barn owls used to breed in the hay bales but when these were shifted the birds objected and moved off to the nearby quarry . |
| 21 | At some point Kāli and I had stopped climbing and branched off to the left : but this was too narrow , an animal track . |
| 22 | The french windows were closed and he drew his gun and peered in to the gloomy apartment . |
| 23 | WALL AFTER WALL of raging water rose up and thundered on to the strange craft intent on destroying it and the frail humans clinging to it for their lives . |
| 24 | Without a word , I restarted the motor and headed back to the mooring bay , half a mile distant , encouraged by a running commentary : ‘ Why are we going in ? |
| 25 | All prisoners serving a year or more will be put on licence when released and supervised up to the three-quarter point of their sentence and , for some sex offenders until the end of their sentence ; |
| 26 | I bought myself some fruit and wandered over to the first tee where Brian Harley was about to drive off . |
| 27 | His hand moved from her neck and wandered down to the soft fullness of her body . |
| 28 | When Maidstone had finished , Franco thought for a moment , shrugged and wandered off to the other end of the bar . |
| 29 | She returned to her car , and drove back to the Red House . |
| 30 | Lesley turned smartly left as the lights changed , and wound her way by back-streets to the parking-ground on the edge of the shopping centre , a multi-storey monstrosity of raw concrete , at which she gazed with resigned distaste as she crept slowly up to the barrier and drove in to the second tier . |