Example sentences of "and [adv] [verb] to [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Besides cleaning up the city 's litter , he was determined to cure its chronic pollution problem , and duly went to war on public and private traffic , proposing a total ban from some areas . |
| 2 | She had been very ill and suddenly taken to hospital without Darren 's knowing why . |
| 3 | This new evidence was held by the defence and only came to light during the trial . |
| 4 | After all , it is said that children grow out of crime and naturally move to independence from their families . |
| 5 | This is very important because once you start to perceive yourself in negative terms you will probably start to act in a negative way , being quarrelsome and finally looking to food for comfort . |
| 6 | The Russians were interested in and finally converted to Christianity at the end of the tenth century and from this time onwards their ecclesiastical architecture was based on that of Constantinople while the churches were , in many cases , built and decorated by Byzantine craftsmen . |
| 7 | In the novel itself we meet the Russian people , the folk , only once , and then as inflictors of suffering , in Raskolnikov 's half-dream ( which is also half-memory ) of a little mare being tortured and finally clubbed to death by drunken peasants . |
| 8 | One finding , for instance , was that cyclists can leave home in the morning later , as late as 8.15 , and still get to school in good time . |
| 9 | Rain knew Oliver was picturing himself back in the wine bar in Chelsea telling everyone how he 'd been mistaken for a drug dealer and nearly done to death in a Mediterranean backstreet by an underworld rival . |
| 10 | They are expelled from the second city they visit ( Acts 13:51 ) , plotted against at the next ( Acts 14:5 ) , and nearly stoned to death at Lystra ( Acts 14:19 ) . |
| 11 | This unit was formed in 1968 and moved from London to temporary quarters in Edinburgh in 1973 , at first at 13 Braefoot Terrace and later overflowing to accommodation at 9 South St David 's Street . |
| 12 | Oh yes , if Greg had been around when the storm broke he 'd have faced ruin — and probably gone to gaol into the bargain . |
| 13 | The contributions payable are significant financial burdens , particularly for an applicant towards the top end of the financial eligibility range , and probably lead to rejection of the offered certificate by a number of applicants who can not afford the contribution . |
| 14 | Of course , there is no band corresponding to the lowest energy band of O 2 , because the π g level of N 2 is empty ; but in marked contrast to the spectrum of O 2 , the first and third bands show sharp and dominant ( 0→0 ) peaks and clearly correspond to ionization from non-bonding levels . |
| 15 | All parties realize this , and so protectionism acts as a bargaining counter for the rich , and a bluff for the poor , and mainly comes to life in its use as a rhetorical device to satisfy domestic constituencies . |
| 16 | ‘ We have never worked out what the chemistry is , but the audiences liked it and we realised ‘ Hey , we 've got something here ’ and really set to work on it . |
| 17 | She lived out of doors and often went to work in the fields with the contadini . |
| 18 | The terrier , a Jack Russell , was always a hunting animal , working rough ground and even going to ground in those situations where it could safely get down into a fox earth or a drainpipe . |
| 19 | When he spent the Whitsun weekend with John Hayward in Cambridge , he looked " very haggard and washed out and dispirited " and simply went to sleep on Hayward 's bed for two afternoons . |
| 20 | Relations between the Thai and Myanman armies were especially close and reportedly extended to co-operation in business dealings and in the suppression of ethnic insurgency along their common border . |
| 21 | Well it just depends if it 's market day she goes to market stays up till two or three in afternoon and then goes to sleep for six about six hours . |
| 22 | Prisoners had also been killed , including several dozen at Bubanza Gendarmerie who were gagged and then beaten to death with pieces of pipe . |
| 23 | It was too early for me to be a Yuckie — the tabloid newspapers ' shorthand for the young city slickers who celebrated the end of a day 's trading with too much lager and then reverted to type as the football hooligans they really were under the skin . |
| 24 | She had originally run it with first husband Stephen and then went to work at the Midland pub opposite Central station . |
| 25 | She had originally run it with first husband Stephen and then went to work at the Midland pub opposite Central station . |
| 26 | I sang and danced in town , and then went to bed in Edinburgh Castle . |
| 27 | It used every means at its disposal : it argued and pressured the Versailles politicians ; it cheated in the plebiscites ; it engineered uprisings in Silesia and Wielkopolska ; it skirmished and then went to war with the Red Army for territory in the east . |
| 28 | In the meantime , the injured driver and GAB workers were attended to by a first aider by GAB and then sent to hospital by ambulance . |
| 29 | The whole company was arrested and held and then transferred to gaol in London , where Nayler was tried . |
| 30 | She settled everybody round the fire , took them hot drinks , and then set to work on her sweet-hearted retriever with a comb , during which she got her guests into perspective . |