Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] [adv prt] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Leave the Museum of Decorative Arts and walk along to the Svatopluka Čech Bridge of 1906 , by J. Soukup and J. Koula . |
| 2 | The first three years of his Oxford course of studies would have included grammar , logic and rhetoric ( the trivium ) , after which the student had to attend formal sessions of dispute and argument before becoming a Bachelor of Arts and going on to the second part of the course , music , astronomy , geometry and arithmetic . |
| 3 | He halted only for a second , enough to narrow his eyes and purse his lips into a look of utter disgust , as though a dog 's turd had grown legs and scurried on to his carpet . |
| 4 | After two days on the bus from Darjeeling to Yoksam , we were glad to stretch our legs and walk up to Dubtek , Sikkim 's oldest monastery . |
| 5 | To fulfil her role properly , she must have time to prepare sessions and keep up to date with a wide range of subjects . |
| 6 | The severe budget deficit caused the UNHCR to close 19 of its approximately 100 regional offices and to freeze up to 300 posts . |
| 7 | When are the teachers going to stop being political animals and get down to teaching rather than try to score points off the Government ? |
| 8 | The next thing you knew , there 'd be , oh , I do n't know , a fifteen-year-old Pole sliding off the table and rubbing his eyes and sauntering back to work , accompanied by an orderly and his understanding smile . |
| 9 | Now dry your eyes and get back to work . ’ |
| 10 | She closed her eyes and dropped on to the bed , her heart pounding . |
| 11 | He managed to murmur Mayli 's name , then closed his eyes and slid down to the floor . |
| 12 | Then , tossing the towel to one side , she closed her eyes and collapsed on to the open sleeping-bag . |
| 13 | According to the Guild of British Tie Makers , men form ‘ strong emotional bonds ’ with their ties and hang on to them , hoping they will come back into fashion . |
| 14 | When he had finished , Dr Jaffery rose to his feet , brushed the dust off his pyjamas and came over to Olivia and me . |
| 15 | One day they 'll make a big killing , quit the rackets and settle down to a respectable life in a new town . |
| 16 | It has 14 individual funds and allows up to four switches without charge in any calendar year . |
| 17 | ‘ Oh , I 'm well enough , ’ Mrs Clamp said , shaking her head and coming down off the stool , picking up some more frozen burgers and going back to the freezer . |
| 18 | Each element combines large capacity vector units and long instruction word RISC processor scalar units and boasts up to 256Mb of static RAM . |
| 19 | Corbett nodded , smiled his thanks and went over to where Alexander now slouched in a half-drunken stupor . |
| 20 | She was slurring her words and holding on to the bar-top for support . |
| 21 | Each table was fitted with transfusion stands and connected up to the piped oxygen laid on throughout Casualty . |
| 22 | Unless she cut her losses and went back to England . |
| 23 | The small voice inside her , urging her to cut her losses and go back to England , leaving the residents at the Château La Tour Monchauzet to stew in their own rancour , was being overwhelmed by a furious determination to vindicate her mother 's memory at all costs . |
| 24 | He wore a red bandana and drank white Russians and quoted Kerouac and spoke loudly in superlatives and sang along to the radio in a shrill and grating soprano . |
| 25 | Toshiba Corp has come out with a low-price , high performance version of the Dynabook laptop , the Dynabook 486E J-3100VS , which uses an 80486SX and has a 9.6″ 16 grey-scale monochrome display on the $2,390 version , with a colour thin-film transistor screen available for an additional $2,133 ; the unit weighs 5 lbs and takes up to 16Mb memory ; a desktop version , the J-3100S/VX , based on the Intel 80486DX2 , at $3,440 was launched at the same time . |
| 26 | Earlier this year , in May , they voted for change , but when Noriega disavowed the election result the mass of the people shrugged their shoulders and went back to work . |
| 27 | He would start with her shoulders and move down to her hips , and no amount of disdain seemed to get through to him . |
| 28 | sometimes they come to Edinburgh and then go away for six months and come back to Glasgow |
| 29 | Then he went back to the cutlery drawer and , with a skill born of long practice , lobbed knives and forks over to Maisie , who set them down in her customary eccentric manner . |
| 30 | In this way Burma can win an honoured place in the United Nations and live up to her recognised standards of charity and hospitality . |