Example sentences of "and [vb pp] [adv] to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For years she 'd built up a protective shell around herself , a barrier against which the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune had bounced and fallen harmlessly to the ground . |
| 2 | You want er you want a letter carried by hand and given in to the hand of Douglas MacArthur ? |
| 3 | This is available as a white powder which is mixed with water and painted on to the concrete . |
| 4 | So too his message of the coming kingdom can not be lifted out and carried over to the present : that message was refuted when Jesus himself attempted to provoke the intervention of God and bring about the end of history by challenging the powers and authorities of his own day . |
| 5 | Rachaela walked into the area and squeezed up to the chest . |
| 6 | The Tory party 's working party on local government — including Bearsden and Milngavie district council , one of the three Tory district councils — proposes that education , social work , housing , the police , fire , water , sewerage and strategic planning should be removed from local government and transferred either to the Secretary of State or to local prosperous companies , or that they should be privatised . |
| 7 | you see we have to be a bit careful because what happens if we closed down right and transferred out to the field |
| 8 | Last night started out with spilt acid and built up to a pellmell slide down stairs , across motorways , into a baby shop , on out-of-control roller-skates . |
| 9 | The " furniture " was then to be arranged into a design for the room and drawn on to the grid . |
| 10 | I was escorted to the fifth floor and shown in to a riverside suite which was named after Sir Charles Chaplin , because he always used to stay there when he visited London . |
| 11 | He raised his left hand briefly in a kind of silent salutation , then strode to the comer of the colonnade , leaving me with my formed words unspoken , and called back to the cottage . |
| 12 | ‘ They 're here , ’ Trent told Mariana and called back to the bedroom : ‘ Mister President … ’ |
| 13 | He went out on to the landing , opened a window , and called out to the crowd : ‘ What do you want ? who are you ? ’ |
| 14 | Jessamy eventually hauled herself out of bed and padded over to the window . |
| 15 | I shook my head , and she smiled and nodded and patted me on the shoulder and padded off to the kitchen . |
| 16 | Donna got to her feet and padded across to the bathroom where she showered quickly , rinsing away the dirt of the journey . |
| 17 | Georg ignored them both and padded across to the table in his stockinged feet . |
| 18 | He remembered how Izzy Kleiber had fought and kicked right to the end — until the moment when they lifted him up , then lowered him over the outer wall of the harbour , where the greedy river licked its oily lips and waited , invisible in the darkness below … . |
| 19 | ‘ As soon as we see the scripts , we start planning , look in our nasty books or ask Peter Salt our nursing advisor , ’ says Jan. skin for stitching scenes is made from a gelatine based substance which is coloured and moulded on to the actor . |
| 20 | They had woken in the morning , stiff and damp , rushed into the house to warm themselves in the huge old-fashioned bathtub , cooked an enormous breakfast and driven back to the city so Cameron could interview some visiting fireman from Washington . |
| 21 | He had left and walked back to the hotel , and by the time he reached it the police were waiting for him in the lobby . |
| 22 | It was a rule they later applied also ( in the face of considerable opposition ) to the guests whom a member signed for in the Visitors Book and introduced on to the floor of the Baltic Exchange . |
| 23 | After the Africans arrived , it was they who worked , while the Englishmen , who had previously laboured , now drilled under two army sergeants who had been recruited and brought out to the settlement . |
| 24 | This uplift brought with it many large colonies of corals one of which , this massive colony of , we sampled and brought back to the lab . |
| 25 | The home meadows were not so much white with snow as grey with sheep , a bleating , heaving block of woolly bodies , gathered in from the hills in the autumn and brought down to the Castle for feeding and safekeeping in the snows . |
| 26 | I was rescued and brought down to the ground . |
| 27 | Later this year a third intake will be built and linked in to the system which will automatically transfer raw materials to the mill . |
| 28 | ‘ What I mean is , they probably had some sort of … lover 's quarrel , Gebrec went storming out in a rage and charged up to the belvedere to cool off . |
| 29 | Phil took him at his word and charged up to the buoy , turning at the last minute to propel the buoy in the air with our wash while the reporter hung on for dear life . |
| 30 | A lift of an eyebrow , a mute appeal to Auguste , who interpreted it correctly and despatched back to the kitchen for the rejected quail and cutlets . |