Example sentences of "and [vb -s] [adv] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The social fund is a scheme which makes loans and grants mainly to people getting income support . |
| 2 | In sentences such as 22 , however , dog has a more specific meaning , and refers only to males : |
| 3 | First one child sidles up to the teacher with some trinket to show in order to allow the warm , cheerful voice of teacher questioning and encouraging to wash over the beginning of their school day ; then another , more venturesome , rushes into the teacher 's arms , with breathless news to convey ; and finally a third arrives preoccupied with the task in hand and refers inadvertently to teacher as ‘ mum ’ . |
| 4 | Available in one size only , it measures 30in from nape of neck to hem and fits up to 42in bust . |
| 5 | Beachcombing soaks up the hours , punctuated with crisp swims during which my scarf unknots itself from my breasts and drifts out to sea like a directionless jelly fish . |
| 6 | He feels tired and goes straight to bed . |
| 7 | A major work in the field remains A Dictionary of British Surnames by P.H. Reaney , in which the relevant entry reads , ‘ Fursey , Fussey , Fuzzey , Forsey ’ , and goes on to instance John Forshay 1431 ( Dorset ) and Roger Fursey 1583 ( Surrey ) . |
| 8 | Crossing the road it follows a path across country to a small road leading to Ballagh Cross and goes on to Armagh Manor . |
| 9 | PLAYER-KING : Full thirty times hath Phoebus ' cart — ( CLAUDIUS enters with POLONIUS and goes over to OPHELIA and lifts her to her feet . |
| 10 | One advantage of Chinese celebrations is that they do not linger on , as everyone knocks off and goes home to bed at about 9 p.m . |
| 11 | Slightly irritated he thinks that there is something wrong with the lock and goes down to reception for assistance . |
| 12 | This wealth is independent of production relations and owes more to household structure and position in the life-cycle . |
| 13 | MERSEYSIDE 'S most famous window cleaner puts his ladders away on Friday evenings … and looks forward to Saturday Afternoon Fever . |
| 14 | Now when Mike gets up each morning for breakfast Natasha jumps into their bed and nestles up to Diana . |
| 15 | Day Six : With a salute from the dawn chorus , your cruiser leaves at 6.30am and heads back to Cologne . |
| 16 | Take the right hand path which cuts over the shoulder of Sail Liath and drops down to Shenavall , near the head of Loch na Sealga . |
| 17 | The Minchmoor Road turns right and drops down to Yarrowford . |
| 18 | is under pressure again now and loses out to Kevin . |
| 19 | A side road leaves here and climbs steeply to Dent Station , four long miles from the town it was intended to serve , and continues at a high level before descending to Garsdale Head . |
| 20 | The first line begins with the man who has justly been termed ‘ the father of modern theology ’ , Friedrich D. E. Schleiermacher ( 1768–1834 ) , who was Professor of Theology in Berlin from 1809 ; and leads on to Albrecht Ritschl ( 1822–89 ) , Professor in Göttingen from 1864 , and those who under his influence formed the school of what is now generally known as Liberal Theology . |
| 21 | When the Greeks begin to use it , it is also part of their interest in mastering the appearance of nature , and leads on to perspective and chiaroscuro , to European painting . |
| 22 | I felt I could whizz it round the country lanes on school runs and trips up to town . |
| 23 | Toshiba Corp has come out with a low-price , high performance version of the Dynabook laptop , the Dynabook 486E J-3100VS , which uses an 80486SX and has a 9.6″ 16 grey-scale monochrome display on the $2,390 version , with a colour thin-film transistor screen available for an additional $2,133 ; the unit weighs 5 lbs and takes up to 16Mb memory ; a desktop version , the J-3100S/VX , based on the Intel 80486DX2 , at $3,440 was launched at the same time . |
| 24 | Each hair vibrates mainly in one direction and responds most to air moving in that direction . |
| 25 | Then he went back to the cutlery drawer and , with a skill born of long practice , lobbed knives and forks over to Maisie , who set them down in her customary eccentric manner . |
| 26 | This is Atlantic water , which originates in the north Atlantic Ocean at a temperature of 2°C and salinity of 35 ppt , and cools almost to 0°C as it circulates slowly about the ocean basin ; its salinity remains high at 34.9ppt . |
| 27 | The best preserved of all , beautiful and often illustrated , shows Herakles supporting the sky while Atlas brings him the golden apples and Athena prepares to help them exchange roles.93 This comes from the east end and conforms strictly to pattern : figures ranged against the flat ground , in simple postures , frontal or profile . |
| 28 | In the south west of Alaska , the volcanic chain picks up again strongly , and swings out to sea to form the long arcs of the Aleutian and Kurile Islands . |
| 29 | He nods and hurries upstage to CLAUDIUS . |
| 30 | Even if part of the tail is lost , the victim survives and swims away to safety . |