Example sentences of "and [adv] to [pron] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Two years after the publication of the Syllabub book disagreements with my partners over policy matters led to my resignation as chairman and director of the firm and eventually to my total severance of all connection with it . |
| 2 | It was there that they went each summer , in Shiva 's holidays , their fares paid by Sabine Schnitzler who , having reverted to her maiden name and largely to her native tongue , sometimes wore a surprised , even bewildered , look at being surrounded , as she put it , by ‘ all those Indians ’ . |
| 3 | He started as a part-time sales assistant , and in the space of just nine years worked his way up through store management to area and regional management and finally to his present position . |
| 4 | Then it was ‘ Fuckin' ‘ ell , is that the time ? ’ , back into the vulgar check suit and home to his little wife , who had been told that he had a business meeting in the City . |
| 5 | In reaction to his family , and possibly to their Jewish background , he sought an escape into social life and literary interests , his sensitivity to his first Christian name leading him later to displace it into Alroy , the name of a character in a novel by Benjamin Disraeli . |
| 6 | Over his shoulder was hung a canvas bag which contained all his worldly possessions , and close to his left heel trotted a black and white collie . |
| 7 | This was due partly to her hats and partly to her remarkable prowess as a lady cricketer . |
| 8 | Chancellor Fernandez will not have his contract renewed in June , thanks partly to his mishandling of the rainbow curriculum and partly to his boastful biography , ‘ Tales out of School ’ , which included some tactless remarks about the Board of Education . |
| 9 | She was devoted to her husband , and also to their young son , Robert , a boy of six years . |
| 10 | Prior to that date , however , some of the greater landowners , as lords of regality , maintained private courts which gave them opportunities to attract lawyer-freeholders to their service and hence to their political interest . |
| 11 | Van Gogh stayed with the Rev. Jones from July to December 1876 and continued to write copiously and regularly to his beloved brother , Theo , also to his parents . |
| 12 | And then to her suppressed rage she realised that she was crying . |
| 13 | As their family grew they moved into Greenbank Road and then to their present home in Lunedale Road . |
| 14 | In the morning providentially we set off for the frontier , and there to my great delight I saw the familiar face of Mr Derrick Robinson , Rhodesia 's Assistant Commissioner of Police , standing beside a BMW motor car which was to convey me to Salisbury . |
| 15 | Wordsworth returns again and again to his main problem , whether we are in some sense ‘ led ’ by spiritual agencies — notice that he is not sure , and carefully qualifies any dogmatic statements — or whether we are alone responsible for what we become . |