Example sentences of "and [verb] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | He stepped back from the console and whispered to the Cell . |
2 | To do this exercise , put the carriage to E , where you 'll find it tucks to the right and knits to the left . |
3 | The edict of Guntram issued at Péronne , and appended to the canons of the Council of Mâcon of 585 , continues royal involvement in ecclesiastical legislation , with an attack on Sunday work , and by backing the force of the canons with secular sanctions . |
4 | And change to the C drive so if you type C col |
5 | Thus a peroxide-bleaching process produces a less obnoxious effluent than a kier-boil-hypochlorite bleach , and change to the peroxide method might be advantageous provided that the resulting textile product and the costs were acceptable . |
6 | Some does , and some comes from contributions and grants to the ADAA Foundation , a separate corporation . |
7 | She curled up in the darkest corner , pillowing her head on her arm , and clung to the memory of four hours before , when the time had stilled and she had been not , sweet tearing bliss … . |
8 | He crouched down and clung to the rail with his right hand and reached out with his left as if to punch a hole through the wall . |
9 | We watched the emergence of one moth ; it crept out from its pale yellow papery cocoon , and clung to the stem of grass to which the cocoon had been fixed with silken threads . |
10 | And yet the various integrationist movements , brash or hesitant , in the 1940s looked to Britain for leadership , and clung to the hope that Britain would be absorbed , not least because of concerns over security . |
11 | There was the taste of death in the kiss , but she accepted the price with the prize , and clung to the bitterness and the bliss alike , knowing them for ever inseparable now . |
12 | A cold damp hung about the beechwood furniture and clung to the velour drapes . |
13 | The ground dipped and swayed beneath her ; she felt dizzy and clung to the rails , forcing herself to go down , to keep looking up , away from the void below . |
14 | A string of mucus hung from her left nostril and clung to the curve of her lipsticked mouth ; the waitresses kept looking across at the table . |
15 | Madge had offered to carry her bag but she drew away and clung to the bannister rail . |
16 | He stopped and had a cup of tea himself and explained to the Covent Garden porters , who wanted to know what he 'd got in the back , that it was the Sleeping Beauty . |
17 | Before doing so all offers received should be examined and explained to the client with a recommendation as to which offers to proceed with . |
18 | It is rolled into a pellet and fastened to the end of the needle and lit so that it smokes . |
19 | ‘ Silly old bugger , ’ she says suddenly , as Fairfax , in the way of elderly men who have once been very athletic , hobbles and skips to the lavatory , trying to shake the easily accumulated stiffness out of his limbs , as though by this display of sprightliness he can somehow leap out of the tethers fi-xing him to the earth . |
20 | It is evident that the prosecuting authorities also had in mind to prosecute the applicant for implication in some of Mr. Turner 's offences , but a decision was taken in 1988 , and communicated to the applicant 's solicitors , that proceedings would be put back until after the B.M.F.L. trial . |
21 | Charlotte stood on the spot where Maurice 's car had stood that morning and gazed to the north , her coat buttoned to the collar , scarf wound around her neck . |
22 | EIGHTY years ago tomorrow , on the night of 14/15 April 1912 , the ‘ unsinkable ’ passenger liner Titanic , steaming at high speed on her maiden transatlantic voyage , ran headlong into an iceberg off Newfoundland and plunged to the bottom of the ocean , taking more than 1,500 souls with her . |
23 | Twice stone broke off in his hand ; once a chunk of battlement fell and plunged to the ground . |
24 | Molecules of galactoside ( β in the figure ) enter the cell , and bind to the repressor molecules . |
25 | Oxygen can just get into the pocket and bind to the iron but , due partly to the absence of water , ca n't oxidise it . |
26 | 7 The attacker 's right leg is then snapped back and kicks to the body of the downed opponent . |
27 | That time lag is a feature that bedevils the software industry and led to the absurdity that the first generation 32-bit chip , the 80386 , had been superseded and obsoleted by the 80486 before there was a 32-bit desktop operating system available for the processor . |
28 | The first phase of the project was undertaken by two BGS staff and led to the publication in 1990 of a systematic inventory of the industrial minerals of the country . |
29 | In East Anglia , the efforts of the Bishop of Norwich , Matthew Wren , to enforce the new orders caused great resentment and led to the publication of the highly critical , anonymous tract , Newes from Ipswich . |
30 | But a bungled , unlawful business deal has so far cost them £5.3m and led to the sacking of all the BRDC 's 12 directors . |