Example sentences of "and [verb] [noun sg] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Amidst the usual panic that surrounds such occasions , I tried to keep calm and asked Mother to hand me the landing net . |
| 2 | Their Botanomancy range is based on elementary herbalism and offers top to toe treats such as Smaragadine , £4.75/500ml , a shower gel made of nettles , roses , peppermint and orange peel , and Fagner 's , £3.25/200ml , a foot lotion perfumed with violets . |
| 3 | The candidate will spend most the campaign making speeches throughout the constituency , not infrequently at thinly attended meetings , and canvassing door to door where possible . |
| 4 | In education such a policy would improve performance indicators immediately as a much higher percentage of youngsters would then achieve three or more Highers and gain entrance to university ; success all round ! |
| 5 | This one period a week course brings in guest speakers , involves group discussion and co-operation , and encourages sensitivity to adult values . |
| 6 | Easy to plumb in and cheap to operate … and say goodbye to tea towels ! |
| 7 | Pop to the toilet if you feel the need and say farewell to family and friends , ensuring you arrange carefully how to meet them afterwards . |
| 8 | This new product range involved a change from skilled technical configuration and test work to volume assembly , with short cycle times on individual operations . |
| 9 | Within the framework of the Garden 's overall statutory objectives , information policies will help us to decide on resource allocation , improve the way we communicate with each other and with our ‘ users ’ , and provide feedback to Management and the Trustees on the way our resources are being used . |
| 10 | Charles Dollar has pointed out that archivists and librarians both preserve and provide access to information ( 1992 ) . |
| 11 | This first meeting , attended by delegates from 130 countries , agreed that future talks should concentrate on identifying " appropriate commitments " to reduce emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases , and provide aid to third-world countries in developing less polluting industries . |
| 12 | Instead of the anaerobic gravel layer of old style aquaria , this now becomes a biologically active aerobic medium supporting bacteria which decompose organic matter to carbon dioxide and water and oxidize ammonia to nitrate . |
| 13 | This would include commitments by industrialized countries to cut carbon dioxide emissions , and to provide assistance to third-world states to do the same . |
| 14 | Securing the suppression of the foreign slave trade might be achieved in part in wartime by naval power but otherwise was mainly seen as requiring lobbying of and consultation with ministers , communicating with British diplomats and naval commanders for information and to provide stimulus to intervention in particular cases and pressing arguments upon foreign leaders , particularly during the Congress phase of European diplomacy in the years following the defeat of Napoleon . |
| 15 | As so many times before , Vologsky carne to the end of the mental games he played with himself , dismissed the last hopeful excuse for his rejection and came face to face with the lonely bitterness of reality . |
| 16 | Then she turned away and came face to face with Emelda Linley . |
| 17 | Returning the chisel to the bench , she turned to leave and came face to face with Leo 's sister . |
| 18 | Then he blundered into the turning he wanted , limped down it and came face to face with the blank grey door leading into the four Turkey Pens . |
| 19 | And came nose to nose with the tortoiseshell . |
| 20 | Over 44 months 157 patients ( 96 boys ) who had suffered one or more events out of hospital and received mouth to mouth resuscitation were referred for clinical management to our department at the Royal Brompton Hospital . |
| 21 | There was a mirror above in whose reflection she saw Ted Tipper advance down the corridor and meet face to face with the police . |
| 22 | The children each hold a cup full of water and stand back to back . |
| 23 | These results suggested that open complexes formed at the φ29 P A2b and P A3 promoters are unstable , and that initiated complexes are stable enough to resist the heparin challenge and give rise to elongation complexes . |
| 24 | Such teaching is not simply with the object of enlightening the mind or to satisfy curiosity , but to mould the personality and give direction to life . |
| 25 | One is that academic research should pluck the fruits of the contemporary political agenda and lend credibility to vogue and vague notions that may fleetingly assume a high profile , reify concepts that are of the moment and endow them with the status of real analytical phenomena . |
| 26 | On his showing at the Brooklands circuit with a prewar 4½-litre Opel and by persistent importuning , he was accepted , in 1921 , as a team driver by Louis Hervé Coatalen [ q.v. ] , designer and racing manager to Sunbeam ( soon to be the Anglo-French concern , Sunbeam–Talbot–Darracq ) , the only English competitor in international events . |
| 27 | There was an awareness among people outside schools that schools could choose between a range of approaches to the curriculum ( Lawton 1986 ) and there was an expectation that the chosen curriculum in , for instance , each primary school was one which would create the basis of a rational , moral and enquiring attitude to learning and to future experience . |
| 28 | Another Lassus pupil at Munich , Leonhard Lechner ( c. 1553–1606 ) , later a convert to Protestantism , began his career with Latin church music in his master 's style , composed a great tri-choral , 24-part epithalamium , ‘ Quid chaos ’ ( 1582 ) in the Venetian manner , and bade farewell to life in an extraordinary set of fifteen Spruche von Leben und Tod — the dramatic power and profound emotion of which , however , he had already anticipated in ‘ O Tod , du bist ein bittre Gallen ’ , one of his Newe teutsche Lieder ( Nuremberg , 1582 ) . |
| 29 | Taking tap water samples from each of the ten water authorities , he packaged them in the form of a consumer product as ‘ a response to privatisation , and to draw attention to contamination in our water supplies . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Right , let's spread out a bit and get back to back , ’ said Yanto with a grin , ‘ you ready Bill ? ’ |