Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv prt] to a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The huge main doors were gilt over bronze and led out to a stairway that swept up to an entrance vestibule lined with Algerian onyx . ’ |
| 2 | He and David Hemmings got on very well and got up to a lot of mischievous things . |
| 3 | We looked at his stone fireplace , cracked horizontally about six feet up from the March quake and moved over to a drafting table . |
| 4 | The two boys picked up their pints and moved over to a couple of chairs by the fire , just vacated by an elderly couple . |
| 5 | So I told the machine what it was about , and moved on to a golfer and one of the Black and White minstrels . ’ |
| 6 | In March 1992 , a questionnaire was sent out to all of the Society 's exchange partners in the hope that records could be updated and entered on to a database . |
| 7 | Some of the borders are designed to be cut out and appliquéd on to a host fabric , while others are an integral part of a plain background material . |
| 8 | She limped into the air-conditioned hall of the hotel like an awkward seal plunging into a pool , and sank on to a leather sofa . |
| 9 | He clasped both hands behind his back and wandered over to a bench . |
| 10 | A SCHOOLBOY escaped severe injury last night when he plunged through a skylight and crashed on to a bed . |
| 11 | Between 30 and 50 people were killed or injured on Nov. 19 when a freight train was derailed outside Tehuacán , 200 km south-east of Mexico City , and crashed on to a roadway , crushing vehicles and houses . |
| 12 | Still painfully relieved that he was not to be made an unwanted orphan and bundled off to a Home , Frankie left the room without a word . |
| 13 | I put it with other money I had and part exchanged my irons for a full set of top quality blades which had been in a sale after that my game improved immensely I got my handicap by putting in three cards two terrible scores of 86 and the good card which was 72 my handicap was then 15 I played in a junior competition and came third in the lower handicap section a week later and played in a medal and came down to a handicap of 14 . |
| 14 | Charlie laughed for the first time since he had left Whitechapel and strolled over to a youth far smaller than himself who was rubbing his hands between his legs as he tried to keep warm . |
| 15 | THREE TRACKS selected from their outstanding debut LP and handed over to a bunch of no good acid housers for dancefloor enhancement . |
| 16 | Cornelius lowered his suitcase , took off his rucksack and climbed on to a stool before the counter . |
| 17 | ‘ Would madam please excuse me , ’ he said and walked over to a filing cabinet , shrugging exaggeratedly as he passed one of his colleagues . |
| 18 | I turned right and walked up to a crossroads where two shops and a bar were open ; I could n't go in because I had no money , so I continued up the road . |
| 19 | During World War II Yamaguchi was captured by the Russians and shipped off to a labour camp . |
| 20 | However , we had not caught a double , so unbeknown to Rick I wound in my right hand rod which had not done much on the meat and switched over to a boilie . |
| 21 | In order to conduct the census , 1.7 million white collar workers were recruited , given a cursory training and sent out to a total of 604,869 villages armed with census forms translated into 20 languages . |
| 22 | He looked round and went over to a tinker 's stall . |
| 23 | Hilary Seymour-Strachey grabbed the rag , and went over to a picture . |
| 24 | Her thoughts were definitely not with her companions , and after a while they dropped her back at her flat and went on to a club together . |
| 25 | However , if I actually wanted to come along and learn some English — I did ‘ O ’ level English , I enjoyed it immensely , but then I did science in the sixth for and went on to a science career — can I come and study English at your school ? |
| 26 | Lissouba headed the poll and went through to a second round run-off on Aug. 16 against the second-placed Bernard Kolelas of the Congolese Movement for Democracy and Integral Development ( MCDDI ) . |
| 27 | My just married son decided to build a wall in his back garden and went along to a bricklayer 's yard to buy a quantity of bricks . |
| 28 | A bonus of £10,000 was available at the hole for a hole-in-one and the American 's tee shot landed a foot beyond the hole and spun back to a foot short of the hole . |
| 29 | An afternoon to yourself to discover the treasures of this revered Cathedral City then a little nap , perhaps and later refreshed and invigorated off to a gala evening with a menu fit for a king . |
| 30 | After a year or so the rope was taken up from the lower floors and wound on to a cleat on the top storey . |