Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [verb] [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seemed to Julia to be the height of good manners to have greeted a stranger with apparent pleasure under such circumstances and then to have included her in the family teasing , but she wanted to make certain that they could forget their manners and talk freely to each other without having to bother about her . |
| 2 | Leave the Museum of Decorative Arts and walk along to the Svatopluka Čech Bridge of 1906 , by J. Soukup and J. Koula . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | ( Three songs to vernacular texts in carol form , surviving in an early sixteenth-century volume of courtly and devotional songs and attributed just to ‘ Brown ’ , are probably by a different composer . ) |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | You testify before the Commission tomorrow and I take the kids and go home to Mother in Milwaukee ! ’ |
| 8 | It is a chance to build relationships with the kids and to get close to just one or two of them . |
| 9 | To fulfil her role properly , she must have time to prepare sessions and keep up to date with a wide range of subjects . |
| 10 | The severe budget deficit caused the UNHCR to close 19 of its approximately 100 regional offices and to freeze up to 300 posts . |
| 11 | When are the teachers going to stop being political animals and get down to teaching rather than try to score points off the Government ? |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Now dry your eyes and get back to work . ’ |
| 14 | She closed her eyes and dropped on to the bed , her heart pounding . |
| 15 | He managed to murmur Mayli 's name , then closed his eyes and slid down to the floor . |
| 16 | Then , tossing the towel to one side , she closed her eyes and collapsed on to the open sleeping-bag . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | When he had finished , Dr Jaffery rose to his feet , brushed the dust off his pyjamas and came over to Olivia and me . |
| 19 | One day they 'll make a big killing , quit the rackets and settle down to a respectable life in a new town . |
| 20 | Greg took down Twentieth Century Authors and turned unhopefully to the Ms. There he was ! |
| 21 | It has 14 individual funds and allows up to four switches without charge in any calendar year . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | Each element combines large capacity vector units and long instruction word RISC processor scalar units and boasts up to 256Mb of static RAM . |
| 24 | Corbett nodded , smiled his thanks and went over to where Alexander now slouched in a half-drunken stupor . |
| 25 | She was slurring her words and holding on to the bar-top for support . |
| 26 | Each table was fitted with transfusion stands and connected up to the piped oxygen laid on throughout Casualty . |
| 27 | They seized up spears and charged forth to his aid . |
| 28 | His back to us , he concentrates on the pictures and comes straight to the point . |
| 29 | Unless she cut her losses and went back to England . |
| 30 | 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 . |