Example sentences of "and [verb] to [adv] [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Frederick put the rebellious cities under imperial ban , and intended to finally suppress the opposition of Milan , Piacenza , Cremona , Mantua , Brescia , Parma , Bergamo and the March of Verona . |
| 2 | They had rushed into it too quickly , and lived to bitterly regret their impulsiveness . |
| 3 | Removing the mender 's lead leaves gaps which have to be filled with new glass … aged and painted to closely match the original . |
| 4 | Conrad stood in front of the figure-length wall mirror in his basement flat and tried to successfully knot a maroon cravat . |
| 5 | We did have committees and we began to coordinate activities and er careers conventions suddenly sprouted engineering council 's banners and the people all got together again under these banners and we went to these careers conventions and tried to obviously put across the image of engineering itself . |
| 6 | The notion that ‘ primitive ’ societies classify and organise their intellectual world simply in terms of their crude ‘ needs ’ , which Goody derives from Malinowski and uses to further characterise ‘ oral ’ societies , has also been subject to some radical revision in recent years . |
| 7 | The orthopaedic department is working towards a one-year maximum wait for patients on a waiting list for an operation and hope to drastically cut the wait for an outpatient appointment . |
| 8 | There 's still some who want the shrieking , whirling dervish of the old Associates days and refuse to give him any credit for growing up and wanting to just get on with it . |
| 9 | Its statement reads ‘ As of May 8,1992 , ’ OSF is still unequivocally committed to OSF/1 and intends to aggressively pursue its on-going development and adoption in the marketplace . ’ |
| 10 | With the dissolving in liquid , and subsequent shaking of the bottle before each dose , the potency is gradually raised , expanded , and intensified to continually stimulate the vital force at regular intervals . |
| 11 | Last night Aintree officials leapt to the defence of Mr Evans and vowed to vigorously challenge any disciplinary action against alleged breaches of racecourse rules . |
| 12 | Out of the corner of my eye I saw Natalie stand up , salute and begin to silently mouth the words of the Promise ! |
| 13 | For one , the researcher did not have Roget 's on-line and needed to manually enter into the computer the relevant relations from Roget 's . |
| 14 | Her back still turned to him , she picked up the white plastic basket and began to hastily retrace her steps towards the cottage — and she heard him laugh . |
| 15 | Frowning , she looked down and began to idly trace intricate patterns on the table-top with her finger as she tried to puzzle it out . |
| 16 | Nell turned away and began to eagerly search the mass of notes , manuals and graphs stacked on desks . |
| 17 | All this confirms that the NSA and GCHQ are again becoming bolder and starting to blatantly ignore supposed guidelines , intercepting any transmission they wish . |
| 18 | West Ham got a corner and started to vaguely threaten for the first time . |
| 19 | And when the tears come like that I think it is better to retreat , to go home , to go to sleep , to leave wherever you are and try to just sleep . |
| 20 | And gradually we brush a little more each day and try to gradually increase the horse 's tolerance , until we can brush the horse all over without any trouble . |
| 21 | And she sat down and proceeded to slowly tell Alyssia about herself . |
| 22 | ‘ Tomorrow , I shall send for the notaire , and arrange to formally acknowledge you as my only child . ’ |
| 23 | Most just scurry home , keep a low obedient profile , are guilt-ridden for weeks , and swear to never do it again . |
| 24 | The turning point was the par 4 eight hole where Darcy found water from the tee and had to eventually settle for a double bogey six . |
| 25 | His hand , which had insinuated itself beneath the cover , was sending her thoughts in an entirely different direction , and as his warm palm began rubbing gently across her back she totally lost track of what he was saying and had to desperately drag her mind back as he continued . |
| 26 | Inanna was restored by her loyal subjects , but was forever accompanied by a ghastly demon-servant and had to periodically go into hiding so her evil sister could hold sway and unleash her temper — thus explaining the continuing paradoxes of life and death , illness and health , harvest and famine . |
| 27 | ‘ I told the doctor I had sat opposite a man the night before and had to mentally flick through every male name I knew in order to locate his . |
| 28 | I told him I had sat opposite a man the night before and had to mentally flick through every male name I knew in order to locate his ; ‘ George , Andrew , Jack … |
| 29 | Conversely , if you are building up to a competition and wish to greatly increase your fitness and endurance , the FDR should be very intense and should make up a large part of your training . |
| 30 | Pedestrians going down the steps from the bus stop are hidden by trees and shrubs and have to either walk in the road or cross over to find a pavement . |