Example sentences of "and [verb] [adv prt] [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Theda gasped , glancing down at her hurting hand and back up to find a malevolent twist in the old lady 's wasted features . |
| 2 | The document begins : ‘ Be it now proclaimed by the Board of Commissioners of the County of Beaver under the laws of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ’ and goes on to support the work done to try and preserve the line as a ‘ national monument of historical importance ’ . |
| 3 | Ulysses opens with the horrifying story of the blinding of the one-eyed Cyclops , told with gusto , and goes on to recount the many other dangers Ulysses faced during his 10-year voyage on the ‘ wine-dark sea ’ , trying to get home after the siege of Troy . |
| 4 | The study then describes the underlying technologies of multimedia and goes on to evaluate the implications for such fields of use as education and training , business and professional applications and leisure and entertainment in the home . |
| 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 | Very rarely , a newborn infant contracts herpes simplex and goes on to develop an acute viral infection of the brain , which is almost invariably fatal . |
| 7 | Hans Kohn ( 1967 ) , emphasizing this last feature , observes that ‘ nationalism is inconceivable without the ideas of popular sovereignty preceding without a complete revision of the position of rulers and ruled , of classes and castes ’ , and goes on to note the importance of the rise of a new class , the third estate : |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If Edberg wins and goes on to win the final , the London-based Swede will regain the top spot Courier has held for all but six weeks of this year . |
| 10 | The southern equatorial current is diverted south , past the Solomon Islands , and goes on to bathe the Great Barrier Reef — and , indeed , much of the Australian coastline down past Sydney — in the tropical water of the east Australian current . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The catalogue recalls that in 1938 Brame and Lorenceau held an exhibition of Rousseau 's work which contributed to the revival of interest in that artist 's work , and goes on to express the hope that eventually a museum devoted to Barbizon painting may be set up . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | It begins : ‘ I hate the Stones and I hate blues … ’ and goes on to show the finger to the Hook and Chuck and Otis and Marvin and ‘ Reetha and Dylan and just about everything yer rock fan holds sacred . |
| 15 | Kaisa , bored by the proceedings , takes advantage of the slack trace and goes over to have a look at a tree . |
| 16 | He decides he must do something about it and goes off to find the works engineer . |
| 17 | This legendary descent begins from the Grands Montets and goes down to join the lower part of the Vallee Blanche . |
| 18 | Then apply the brush again on the brow bone over the eyebrow to hairline and bring around to join the blusher on cheeks . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | After a female has dug a burrow , she closes the entrance , and flies off to catch a caterpillar . |
| 21 | She tried not to even consider the soft swell of his expressive mouth , and gabbled on to break the tense atmosphere . |
| 22 | I said I felt ill , and got up to open the door . |
| 23 | He moved again , and gladly she leaned over and pressed the bell on the wall beside the cot and got up to get the breast tray . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He pulled up at the farm and got out to open the door for her before she could move . |
| 26 | But we overpowered our captors and got out to find the battle in full cry and the north-west quarter of the Rorim in flames . |
| 27 | The hill was a switchback and at the top of the first rise I stopped and got out to have a look around . |
| 28 | Fig 74 F releases and crosses over to grasp the end of the boom . |
| 29 | On reading such statements , would Ptolemy have seen the error of his ways , instantly recanted and toddled off to join the Copernican revolution ? |
| 30 | They might even be stiffened with starch and painted over to leave a pattern . |