Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] [pron] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their anomalous position illustrates the danger of reading back ( even into the 1950s , let alone the 1930s ) the more precisely defined contemporary categories , and eventually exposed them to abolition . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's where my family live , ’ he says distantly , and slowly drink himself to death . |
| 3 | Until his brother took over the firm and promptly sold it to INCUBUS Oy . |
| 4 | We can work with the class to create a story in which they all have a stake , slowing it down at particular moments , thereby creating strong dramatic tension , deepening understanding and also enabling us to value publicly the contribution of particular children . |
| 5 | His father coached him in Dutch , and also introduced him to theosophy . |
| 6 | She blushed furiously , and inwardly cursed him to hell and back . |
| 7 | For parents , it is only too long a period of encumbrance and handicap during which they are saddled with young who demand continual feeding , who reduce their freedom and regularly expose them to danger . |
| 8 | How could grown men and women risk excommunication , persecution , and even burn themselves to death rather than see the altar procession move from left to right , the number of alleluias cut from three to two , and the number of fingers used in making the sign of the cross raised from two to three ? |
| 9 | ‘ Right , we 'll get you a hot drink — laced with something alcoholic , I think , and then get you to bed . ’ |
| 10 | Sitting on the next barstool was an antiques dealer called James ; he discussed his feelings with Clare for the next two hours and then took her to dinner at the Ox on the Roof , where she chose the most filling dishes . |
| 11 | ‘ The American way of doing things is to have an idea and then persuade someone to back it . |
| 12 | Even decaffeinated coffee may stimulate acid production by the stomach and then predispose you to indigestion , heartburn and peptic ulcers . |
| 13 | ‘ Then he 'd get up early to make sure they had their breakfast , get Matthew ready and then take him to school . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ Then he 'd get up early to make sure they had their breakfast , get Matthew ready and then take him to school . ’ |
| 15 | It does a thorough job of not only testing each part of the hard disk but it also saves any data on the disk while doing so by reading all usable tracks into memory before reformatting the track and then writing it to disk again in the same place — provided it was usable . |
| 16 | The style and tone of this appendix are quite astonishing ; fortunately , readers of this book and of Early music will be aware that for one writer to read another 's work insufficiently carefully to understand it , to attribute to him ideas he does not hold , and then to subject them to sarcasm and ridicule is no way to conduct academic debate , and about these four pages the present writer — the recipient of this attention — needs say no more . |
| 17 | They shielded the broadcasters from outside pressure — from all directions , not just from the politicians — and they reviewed the broadcasters ' work , explaining , justifying and sometimes excusing it to government and the public . |
| 18 | I bet you they would n't find it quite so glamorous if , instead of getting drunk and shooting her , he 'd got drunk and accidentally beaten her to death . |