Example sentences of "and [to-vb] [pron] [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one point of the journey through them you can take to a boat , and to carry you back to the daylight there is a miniature railway . |
| 2 | In the early days , the salesman behind the counter had served to promote the merits of different products , and to wrap them carefully for the customer 's homeward journey . |
| 3 | Headline is ultra-keen on this psychological thriller , and to draw it out above the rest it is giving its atmospheric black and white cover four different shout lines in four different colours . |
| 4 | Any sort of boat could have been used to ferry a body to midstream and to put it gently over the side in darkness . |
| 5 | The Citation rolled slowly on to its left side as Duncan fought to keep it flying and to keep it away from the airliner . |
| 6 | Traditionally , it was usual to take the upwind wing-tip and to hold it slightly below the horizontal . |
| 7 | And to force us out into the open . ’ |
| 8 | It was Freeth 's custom to write songs — setting his words to popular tunes — about remarkable events in local and national news , and to sing them nightly to the company assembled at his Coffee House . |
| 9 | When James did succeed to the throne in 1685 , the pro-Catholic and pro-French orientation of foreign policy was naturally maintained , and the new king made strenuous efforts both to return England to the papal fold and to realign her fully with the international Catholic axis . |
| 10 | put that forward and to get it out of the way . |
| 11 | It is mildly blasphemous , too , to be sent into this breathing world with trillions and trillions of brain-cells , all anxious to fire and to titillate , and to shutter them off against the more vigorous half of human thought . |
| 12 | Mr Tate advises prospective purchasers to produce a written list of requirements , and to check them off against the package one by one . |
| 13 | By and large , we are talking about commuter lines designed to bring people from the south-east to central London in the morning and to take them home in the evening . |
| 14 | We 'd obviously , we 'd like to get the agreement of this committee to continue that work and to take it up to the various bodies and consultation . |
| 15 | The next stage is to cut precisely to the right length and to link it up with the sound track . |
| 16 | If that is the carrot to persuade this Parliament to give up such independence as it possesses and to move it on from the treaty of Rome , I would want a lot of persuading that that was in our best interests . |
| 17 | Dino Zoff , the Lazio manager , decided to pick Gazza only on Saturday — and to tell him shortly before the kick-off . |
| 18 | Wapnick is tall and long-limbed , and he uses his reach to cut the ball off early in flight and to dig it out of the corners . |
| 19 | The successful communicator selects just those features which differ from this schema , enabling the receiver to adjust it and to bring it closer to the individual instance which is being described . |
| 20 | He has arrived only a short while before , but did not question the order that von Keller gave to Lt Rosen and several men of the 10th Company to remain close to the vehicle and to bring it up to the battalion by road . |
| 21 | We must see how this doubt develops and be careful to presuppose only what we know to be true and to commit ourselves consciously to the consequences of these suppositions . |