Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But to others , he was a stubborn old man , in constant physical pain , who harassed his opponents , drove his ministers to resign and clung ignominiously to power after losing his once-crushing parliamentary majority . |
| 2 | He lowered his hand and gazed out to sea again . |
| 3 | She pulled a fresh pile of paper from her desk drawer , sharpened her pencil and got down to work . |
| 4 | It had n't taken Sister Anne long to discover how intelligent Topaz was and , as the former was a born teacher , she forgot all about the gold earrings and the unseemly deportment and got down to business . |
| 5 | That would be a very good thing , she shouted back , but her inner self did n't agree and , muttering under her breath at her unruly self , she pushed unanswerable questions to the back of her mind and got down to business . |
| 6 | I decided that it was not for me and moved over to accountancy — I had always been reasonable at maths — working for the Co-op and attending college part time . |
| 7 | This is then drawn full-size and traced on to acetate film which is put on to a bed of clay covering the board . |
| 8 | The hero must be challenged and tormented , he must be bamboozled and tried up to breaking point before he is permitted to claim the prize , before , in fact , he is able properly to call himself a hero . |
| 9 | Except for the two hours when you went out and drove round to Boundary Drive . ’ |
| 10 | Aaron Freeman 's ordeal began after his mum dropped him outside and drove off to work . |
| 11 | We were given maps of the reserve and told how to census the songsters by marking the grid position of each singing bird . |
| 12 | This was , and is , one of the largest machine shops in Europe and geared exclusively to aerospace and military manufacture . |
| 13 | He jumped from the cart and came straight to Den . |
| 14 | Ebert marched to the centre of the room and came smartly to attention , lowering his head respectfully , waiting for his T'ang to speak . |
| 15 | I just slipped out , walked down a corridor , out through a side exit and came down to home . |
| 16 | But we got over it and I finished my school at fourteen and came back to work at home . |
| 17 | " After five days Rabscuttle slipped out again with the children and came back to El-ahrairah . |
| 18 | Then I took the bag to my boat and sailed out to sea . |
| 19 | By midday we were making giant strides , so we headed for the hills and learnt how to herringbone up them and swoosh down them . |
| 20 | After a while I became so deep in my cups I grew surly , said I felt unwell and trotted off to bed where I could nurse my hurt as well as conceal my bad manners . |
| 21 | Under the bizarre ruling belongings equal to the value of those stolen were taken and handed over to charity . |
| 22 | They soon became irritated by their inability to capture it , and turned back to diplomacy . |
| 23 | Ralph Pottinger boarded her and she was brought clear and returned safely to Challenge . |
| 24 | Pictures of cats made out of synthetic material and stuck on to plastic plates are available in virtually every store . |
| 25 | Juliet picked up the orange folder and walked down to Room G at the far end of the ward . |
| 26 | Then the wind rose , fanning the few sparks left alive in the brushwood ; the fire flared into life again and gave them light to see by , and they broke apart from their terrible embraces and sprang off to blade-length and lance-length . |
| 27 | The trees had thinned out a little , the closer they got to the coast , until they passed by the last of them and stepped on to sand that seemed to stretch endlessly in either direction . |
| 28 | Do excuse me … ’ and shuffled off to bed , helped up the stairs by Nightingale , leaving Rachel alone with Damian . |
| 29 | When the old lady was helped into a newly made-up and just warmed bed , with clean sheets and blankets , and a coverlet of soft down unearthed from a trunk in the attics and hung outside to air , she sat back against the bank of lace-edged pillows and burst into a paroxysm of dry sobs . |
| 30 | Then he locked the suite door and stumbled back to bed , listening to his drugged head whine like the empty telephone line . |