Example sentences of "and [vb past] [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Willie blushed and clung on to the top of the blankets . |
| 2 | Owen drew breath and plunged back to the little group , still hemmed into a few yards of the pathway . |
| 3 | The exposure of the scandal blighted the careers of several leading politicians and led ultimately to the resignation of Prime Minister Noboru Takeshita in May 1989 . |
| 4 | Its door could be opened from the inside and led directly to the corridor . |
| 5 | It crossed the River Carrow and led directly to the estates of the rich . |
| 6 | Flat roofs are laid with a slight slope so that rainwater can be collected by conventional gutters and led down to the drains . |
| 7 | But the US ( with the UK in tow ) shaped up for war with Iraq and steamed off to the Gulf to protect their own interests , saying that they were doing so on behalf of the whole world . |
| 8 | Mrs. Mounce jumped out of the armchair and twinkled away to the door . |
| 9 | and read up to the summer |
| 10 | Though not lettered , Lehzen read ( and read aloud to the princess ) and imparted to the child a love of history . |
| 11 | I bundled him into the care and zoomed off to the nearby University Herbarium with a whole leaf of the plant . |
| 12 | Jan Indian-striped my cheek with lipstick and hopped on to the platform , turning to shout : ‘ They 'll think I 'm one too , Monica ! |
| 13 | At Bragança there was no response from the tower as we transmitted our intentions , landed and taxied in to the little apron . |
| 14 | So I turned on my heel and stalked away to the control area … |
| 15 | I turned and stalked away to the servants ' quarters . |
| 16 | A strangely-deserted sidewalk , Rex noted as he leapt out of the cab and stalked over to the fallen driver . |
| 17 | Cornelius slammed down the receiver and stalked back to the car . |
| 18 | She slapped a handful of cold cream on her face and tissued off the exaggerated make-up she 'd worn for the showing , pulled her hair back into a ponytail , laced on her canvas sneakers , and stalked back to the showroom where Raimondo was hovering over a glowering Nicolo . |
| 19 | Sweden is the latest country to suffer from criminals fiddling with mobile phones to re-direct bills — thousands of phones were stolen , altered and sold back to the market as ‘ no charge phones ’ : 10 people have been arrested so far for the crime , which came to light when some subscribers reported bills of $70,000 more than they were expecting ; police said that some of the men arrested were associated with the the Swedish state phone company Televerket and L M Ericsson Telefon AB , Reuter reports from Stockholm . |
| 20 | On seeking to patent his process , Castner discovered that a similar patent had been lodged in Germany by Karl Kellner and made over to the powerful Solvay Company in Belgium . |
| 21 | Sara mounted her bicycle and rode back to the cottage . |
| 22 | The leaders turned and rode back to the inferno of a village . |
| 23 | Over at the manse the Reverend William McIvor , in a drab overcoat , let himself out by the back door and rode off to the north-east by a back path through the woods near Taymouth Castle , keeping his grey garron on a tight rein and stepping slowly so that the hoof-beats were nearly soundless . |
| 24 | It is possible for teachers to keep a personal notebook which does not form part of the record and is not open to subject access , but if information is intended to be used officially and passed on to the next teacher it should be treated in the same way as the formal record . |
| 25 | Some species of these single-celled creatures even select and collect tiny grains of sand which , rather than being used in the ‘ parent 's ’ outer shell are collected together internally and passed on to the ‘ offspring ’ when the single-celled organism divides . |
| 26 | Some of the cost can be borne by the management company and passed on to the owners through the maintenance charge , but the proportion relating to the construction and pre-sales periods will have to be borne by ourselves as developers . |
| 27 | Er in the morning he would be in before any of them , sort of thing , getting a fire lit getting the rivets heat up before they come on the job and ah the the quicker he could the the rivets heat up and passed on to the the squad , then okay the more they could put in so , if he were a good rivet boy you could maybe get a good wage , but again that was up to the squad up to the riveter . |
| 28 | All the cans of food and money , which came to more than £50 , has been collected and passed on to the County Durham Kostroma Appeal . |
| 29 | Using Paradox SQL Link , native SQL statements can be embedded within programs written in the Application Language , and passed through to the database server . |
| 30 | Another bullet fired from the same revolver had entered the outside of the driver 's ( that is , the left-hand ) door of the jeep and passed through to the edge of the driver 's seat without striking Paulette . |