Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb past] [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Commentary of this kind is usually very carefully and skilfully scripted to match the pictures it accompanies . |
| 2 | There was so much untidy milling about , however , that in the confines of the tiny space they found it hard to organize themselves and eventually seemed to abandon the attempt . |
| 3 | I kept them in the shed and eventually had to put the bikes outside under a tarpaulin when the collection got too large . |
| 4 | The extension of the franchise to all adults created a situation in which political parties had to compete for the mass vote and so had to organise the electorate to support their candidates at the polls . |
| 5 | He should have told Cottee to go and do his talking on the park and perhaps tried to change the team plan to assist his strike-force ( if that 's the right word ) . |
| 6 | I was gone for about three hours : scrambling through hedges ; rummaging in undergrowth ; wrestling with tangled nets ; and throwing into a box the indignant ferrets , who after all had done all the work and only wanted to wring the rabbits ' necks . |
| 7 | The Court of Appeal held that whether the officer had taken possession was a question for the jury , and that the answer depended on whether he had made his mind up to take possession so that they would not be removed , or whether he had an open mind and merely wanted to stop the driver getting away without being questioned . |
| 8 | When he did wake , Moran reached his hand across to the coarse shirt over the shoulder and gently began to knead the muscles . |
| 9 | Anne crouched , and gently tried to pull the pillow away . |
| 10 | Groups of strikers assembled and disbanded , led their trooper escorts on pointless all-night drives in caravans , painted broom handles to resemble gun barrels and pointed them out of windows , and generally tried to confuse the authorities with multiple feints and parries . |
| 11 | BNFL press officer who was at Dover for the arrival of a NTL flask of spent fuel on its way to Sellafield , said : ‘ Greenpeace were at Dover for two days and finally had to admit the sand was harmless . |
| 12 | Bernice straightened from her crouch with the five bolts buzzing like bees in her hand , pulled the access plate open and furtively tried to check the space inside the dispenser . |
| 13 | Doddie Weir still has a lot to learn about No 8 play when it comes to back-row moves , witness the occasion against England when he picked up against the wheel and still tried to complete the move . |
| 14 | Even Xanthe herself looked shocked at what she 'd let out , and feebly tried to weaken the impact . |
| 15 | Miss Fergusson got to her feet and briskly began to continue the ascent . |
| 16 | ‘ Oh , this morning I did the accounts , and later went to take the air . ’ |
| 17 | I was called to the administration block of the hospital and later went to register the death , and to make an appointment with an undertaker — this was for ten o'clock the next morning . |
| 18 | The teacher scanned the information available and later asked to use the library for the class . |
| 19 | This deviation from Beveridge 's plan made the scheme expensive to general taxation , and probably tended to prevent the adoption of benefit levels sufficient to provide subsistence incomes to those with no other resources and to inhibit subsequent increases to keep up with the cost of living . |
| 20 | 1–3–1859 The Convener read the following letter from Claud McFie Esquire with reference to a donation of £400 which he had given to the Aged and Infirm Ministers ' Fund and a like sum to the Supplementary Sustentation Fund and in reference to which he reserved power to demand the interest during his life ; that he was anxious to promote the prosperity of the new Church of Bowmore in Islay , and now desired to appropriate the interest of the latter sum for five years , for that charge , and on this being complied with he gave up for that period his claim for the interest of the former sum , viz £400 , to the Aged and Infirm Ministers ' Fund . |
| 21 | It made no sound , and even seemed to absorb the sounds around it , like a sponge soaking up water . |
| 22 | She did not feel entirely at ease about this , and even went to consult the Careers Adviser in Cambridge , who gave her various leaflets , told her about trainee courses at the BBC , and sent her off for a two-day inspection of the Civil Service . |
| 23 | I took off my cloak and immediately began to thread the fabric through the hole . |
| 24 | The beadle came quickly , heard the dreadful news , and immediately ran to tell the board . |
| 25 | They 're dyed also naturally in the medieval way with red for the madder and then welled to give the yellow as the basis of digris and then a woad an indigo from woad erm slightly cheating there because we could n't have enough woad , we have to use import the actual substance . |
| 26 | Filming stopped the entire unit decamped for lunch , and then had to abandon the scene as the tide had gone out and the puffer dropped from its previous position at the pier . |
| 27 | This information , based on the official records of Returning Officers , will initially be compiled for the 1981 elections and then expanded to include the results of those contests due in May 1985 . |
| 28 | The pupil had been at Magdalen for a year , and then left to join the Army . |
| 29 | Disturbed by the noise , he scared off the invaders single-handed armed with a musket and then proceeded to defuse the explosives . |
| 30 | Extraction with alcohol is a third method , when the solvent trickles over the plant material , is collected and then distilled to leave the oil as a solid material . |