Example sentences of "and [vb -s] [pron] [adv prt] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | After a while he opens his case , takes out a glass vial and holds it up to the light . |
| 2 | Before waiting for an answer she takes me by the hand and leads me on to the dance floor . |
| 3 | In every generation , REPRODUCTION takes the genes that are supplied to it by the previous generation , and hands them on to the next generation but with minor random errors — mutations . |
| 4 | There is something free , reckless , vaguely counter-cultural about it ; it ignores the voice of prudence and takes us back to the days of our youth when we defied authority by taking it up . |
| 5 | Leasing is a system whereby a financial institution purchases a piece of equipment and leases it back to the company , which then has the use of equipment it has not had to purchase . |
| 6 | A Polish farmer fits him out with a complete set of dry clothes and sends him on to the West German embassy in Warsaw . |
| 7 | Once the replacement arrives , the customer puts the non-working product into the post-paid replacement box , seals it with the tape provided by Hewlett-Packard and sends it back to the company . |
| 8 | If they do so he grabs them by the neck and hauls them back to the fold . |
| 9 | The book traces his family history leading up to that midnight stroke and carries it through to the dark period of Mrs Gandhi 's emergency . |
| 10 | Paul Levy 's new television series and book looks at the culinary ghosts of Christmas past and brings them up to the present day |
| 11 | The mother wasp goes out of her burrow , catches and kills a bee ( by stinging ) , and brings it back to the burrow . |