Example sentences of "and [verb] [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bernard 's father had been a builder , his two elder brothers were house painters ; his older sister was married to a carpenter : another just left nursing to be married ; his two younger sisters were still at school and planned to go to college against their mother 's wishes . |
| 2 | This was the real fear behind the arguments about the declining calibre of the new county councillors compared with that of the magistrates of Quarter Sessions ( Dunbabin 1965 ; Dearlove 1979:Ch. 4 ) : ‘ democratic alterations were widely believed to be dangerous , and expected to lead to extravagance , inefficiency , or even rapacity and disorder ’ ( Dunbabin 1963:227 ) . |
| 3 | Most of the vital questions as to how these skills are acquired , how they are to be selected and adjusted according to context , how easily or not different kinds of school environment can accommodate them and so on , are begged . |
| 4 | Germans were confidently walking in the streets when the alarm sounded but they did n't take it seriously and failed to go to air raid shelters . |
| 5 | Fujimori , justifying the air force action , said that the C-130 , one of many used to support US anti-drug operations in the northern Upper Huallaga Valley ( the world 's largest single source of coca ) , carried no markings and failed to respond to radio and visual warnings . |
| 6 | If your saint is to remain here now , then even if Tutilo escapes the sheriff 's law , if Herluin takes him back to Ramsey they 'll make him pay through his skin for what he attempted and failed to bring to success . |
| 7 | Anyway , a few of us had a drink in the hotel that night , and apparently there was a fight ; this was after I got drunk and got put to bed . |
| 8 | There we found Capt. Warr and party , all very tired and fatigued owing to lack of food and water for four days . |
| 9 | County Councillor , Councillor on my right , I think is to be congratulated on the work he has done with County Highways on our behalf , and has written to District Council recommending refusal . |
| 10 | This compares with around three million at the same stage of the last BT share sale in 1991 and has led to criticism of the £15 million advertising campaign . |
| 11 | This has been confirmed by direct measurement of ascitic plasminogen activating activity and has led to speculation that an infusion of plasminogen activators could stimulate a coagulopathy mediated by primary fibrinolysis . |
| 12 | He does , however , acknowledge that though " Conservative rhetoric is fundamentally consumerist rather than democratic , it has served to put the issue of school-parent relations near the centre of educational debate and has led to legislation which increases parental involvement " ( Jones 1989:120 ) . |
| 13 | This has been particularly remarked on in government contracts and has led to pressure to move towards fixed-price contracts . |
| 14 | With its emphasis on universal downwearing , it was a negative and obliterating conception resulting from cerebral analysis rather than from observation and has led to sterility in geomorphologic thought and retarded progress in the subject severely . |
| 15 | Subsequently , the company agreed to independent auditing and has returned to profitability . |
| 16 | Evenings are their weakest time since they soon begin to feel fatigued and want to go to sleep relatively early . |
| 17 | He went behind the settee and pretended to go to sleep . |
| 18 | But anyway , I put the pills and the gin firmly aside , turned out the light again , and tried to go to sleep . |
| 19 | Finch groaned and tried to go to sleep . |
| 20 | That children and young people , particularly those who are instrumentalists , be welcomed and encouraged to contribute to music in worship ( 606–609 ) . |
| 21 | Social background may not matter much now ( but until they publish the list we can not judge this for ourselves ) , but the 100 per cent increase in party professionals getting on the list and getting elected to Parliament between 1979 and 1987 can not , surely , be just coincidence ? |
| 22 | By the early 1970s the CNAA was in various respects consolidating its position , looking at future developments and beginning to respond to criticism and pressure . |
| 23 | Some would say her hair is her finest feature , though Robyn herself secretly hankers after something more muted and malleable , hair that could be groomed and styled according to mood — drawn back in a severe bun like Simone de Beauvoir 's , or allowed to fall to the shoulders in a Pre-Raphaelite cloud . |
| 24 | The core vocabulary is usually derived by taking a frequency distribution of a domain corpus , comparing this with a frequency distribution from a general corpus , and sorting according to distinctiveness . |
| 25 | The books had also been classified and marked according to readability bands from 1–5 to help pupils to choose their books themselves . |
| 26 | She repotted every plant in the house and started listening to opera . |
| 27 | Some thirteen investigators from seven institutions have been brought together to examine various dimensions of the data set ; some of the areas to be covered will be public sector/ private sector relationships , manual skill differentials , sex differentials , white-collar pay movements , the dispersion of pay , pay in relation to hours worked , shift work and incentive pay , the role of national collective agreements , and pay according to region , age and size of plant . |
| 28 | Employment for life and pay according to age should produce an earnings curve that rises steadily from recruitment to retirement . |
| 29 | I shut my eyes and try to go to sleep , but there 's too much going on to sleep . |
| 30 | But about half of the 200,000 people who fall into either of those categories go on to full-time education and become entitled to student relief of the community charge . |