Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv] [to-vb] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Minutes later he 'phoned back and asked how to place a bet because he 'd never done it before . |
| 2 | The one who took the lead looked big enough and mean enough to relish a ruck if there was a chance of one . |
| 3 | Theda gasped , glancing down at her hurting hand and back up to find a malevolent twist in the old lady 's wasted features . |
| 4 | Sartre took the opposite course to Merleau-Ponty and sought instead to define a new authentic Marxism . |
| 5 | Starting with the creation of the German night fighter force the author makes good use of eyewitness accounts from former Luftwaffe pilots , and goes on to portray a vivid account of what life was like serving on a night fighter unit . |
| 6 | The narrator ( of the Morgans ) is called Arthur and it is Arthur who survives the death of Philip and goes on to become a writer of some undefined kind on the model of David Copperfield and Great Expectations . |
| 7 | Cole adds that what actually happened when the Pioneers engaged in production was not what they had intended when they started their co-operative ; and goes on to offer a more detailed explanation : The Rochdale Manufacturing Society was set up in 1854 , Supposing that , as an expression of democracy , Co-operative principles are as valid for the producer working in the factory producing goods for sale in the Co-operative store as they are for the consumer buying them there , a newcomer to the story might find it surprising that the Pioneers ' belief is presented , if not itself as a matter for surprise , then certainly one for explanation . |
| 8 | She argues that they can constitute a new perspective for the social sciences and goes on to show a continuity with the anti-positivism and rejection of the knowing subject in structuralist and post-structuralist approaches to understanding . |
| 9 | Kaisa , bored by the proceedings , takes advantage of the slack trace and goes over to have a look at a tree . |
| 10 | A check of the water 's temperature is often made on the spot and smaller samples may also be taken and treated immediately to enable a measurement of dissolved oxygen to be made , or to fix for the presence of certain substances such as cyanide . |
| 11 | Some-times the ‘ spiritual people ’ have reacted against the institutional church of their day , and broken off to form a ‘ pure church ’ consisting of themselves and likeminded friends and before long this new church has usually become as encrusted with barnacles as the one from which they broke away . |
| 12 | Beyond Broadford , the region of the Red Hills is bypassed and after rounding the head of Loch Ainort , the road comes alongside Loch Sligachan and turns inland to reveal a first sighting of the mystic spires of the Black Cuillin , the grandest mountains in all Britain — a journey of twenty-five miles from the ferry . |
| 13 | After a female has dug a burrow , she closes the entrance , and flies off to catch a caterpillar . |
| 14 | When the conference opened , a couple of members of the League of Empire Loyalists , one a journalist and the other a chiropodist , hired eastern bishops ' flowing robes from a theatrical costumier , walked in unchallenged , and got up to make a speech against the ‘ archterrorist ’ Makarios . |
| 15 | The hill was a switchback and at the top of the first rise I stopped and got out to have a look around . |
| 16 | They might even be stiffened with starch and painted over to leave a pattern . |
| 17 | Semi-finalist at her first attempt at the age of 14 in 1990 , Capriati has largely flattered to deceive since and has yet to reach a Grand Slam final although she did capture the Olympic gold last year . |
| 18 | Middlesbrough complete their North Division One programme at home to Widnes without lock Steve Howe , who is moving to Nottingham and has yet to make a decision about his playing future . |
| 19 | The student is expected to acquire knowledge and has also to prove a capacity for wide reading and understanding , an up-to-date awareness of the state of both debate and development in educational ideas , a capacity to criticize in a constructive way and an overall capacity to link those skills with collecting and analysing data and with the planning of projects . |
| 20 | ‘ People are clearly in earnest and want desperately to find a solution to keep the round on course , ’ a GATT official said . |
| 21 | Whitlock thought of the Italian restaurant and moved closer to get a better look . |
| 22 | He kissed the top of her head , and moved on to get a saucepan out of the oven . |
| 23 | To his embarrassment he realised he had an erection and moved quickly to place a copy of the Teheran Times on his lap before the stewardess reached his row . |
| 24 | For most cuts , the work is steadied against the foot plate which can be angled to bring it into contact with the workpiece ; because the teeth of the sawblade tend to become worn close to the foot plate , the plate can be unclamped and moved forwards to bring a fresh section of the blade into use . |
| 25 | He called for constructive co-operation between all parties in the transition to a market economy , and proposed not to implement a state of emergency . |
| 26 | His dilemma continues to be one of deciding whether to attack or to stay back , and to discover how to execute a charge successfully . |
| 27 | He had already interviewed Norman Tebbit about his exclusion from the afternoon 's debate on Europe — ' ’ Diabolical liberty ’ , says Norman , in conference outrage' — and tried unsuccessfully to have a word with Sir Charles Webb-Bowen . |
| 28 | She trailed off dismally , knowing that Monica was not capable of flinging up a window in an empty house and climbing in to have a look , and that , very likely , her husband was the same . |
| 29 | This means that the cellular mechanisms of , say , remembering a telephone number and remembering how to drive a car would n't differ — it would just be that different cells , connected up in different ways with other parts of the brain , are involved . |
| 30 | Tip in the rubble or ballast and tamp down to form a firm base , leaving sufficient depth for mortar and slabs |