Example sentences of "and [adv] [vb base] to [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During this spare time you can catch up on lost sleep ( as long as your naps do not prevent a full night 's sleep ) , relax after the stresses of the journey , adjust drinking and eating habits , and generally adapt to your new surroundings . |
| 2 | All she had to do was go forward and then turn to her left as she found the road . |
| 3 | They only relinquish this extreme form of isolation for a brief coming together of the sexes during the breeding season and then return to their separate lives once more . |
| 4 | Before I accept the Secretary of State 's olive branch and damn my political career in front of my colleagues on the Opposition Front Bench , will he clarify at an early stage in the Standing Committee the position about nurses in Wales , England , Scotland and Northern Ireland who take courses and then return to their own districts ? |
| 5 | Although we would urge a total abandonment of an age limitation , those of us wearied by years of banging heads against , not so much the walls , as the balloons of officialdom ( for , eventually , walls splinter a trifle , whereas balloons bulge inwards and then return to their old shape ) , understand that we must count our blessings in small twopenny-pockets . |
| 6 | We should file our record , send copies to the sheriff , go back and tell Chief Justice Fortescue that whatever secret Springall had died with him , and then return to our normal business . ’ |
| 7 | What we have to say is , straight from Essex Police if that happens to you , get out , wherever possible on the passenger 's side of the vehicle and then go to your nearest box and then you pick up the receiver and get through the police control room and they will ask you a series of questions , have you broken down ? |
| 8 | He would drink lemonade himself if he was sufficiently offended , and then add to my other transgressions the blame for spoiling his outing by denying him wine . |