Example sentences of "and [vb past] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He stepped back from the console and whispered to the Cell . |
| 2 | The edict of Guntram issued at Péronne , and appended to the canons of the Council of Mâcon of 585 , continues royal involvement in ecclesiastical legislation , with an attack on Sunday work , and by backing the force of the canons with secular sanctions . |
| 3 | She curled up in the darkest corner , pillowing her head on her arm , and clung to the memory of four hours before , when the time had stilled and she had been not , sweet tearing bliss … . |
| 4 | He crouched down and clung to the rail with his right hand and reached out with his left as if to punch a hole through the wall . |
| 5 | We watched the emergence of one moth ; it crept out from its pale yellow papery cocoon , and clung to the stem of grass to which the cocoon had been fixed with silken threads . |
| 6 | And yet the various integrationist movements , brash or hesitant , in the 1940s looked to Britain for leadership , and clung to the hope that Britain would be absorbed , not least because of concerns over security . |
| 7 | There was the taste of death in the kiss , but she accepted the price with the prize , and clung to the bitterness and the bliss alike , knowing them for ever inseparable now . |
| 8 | A cold damp hung about the beechwood furniture and clung to the velour drapes . |
| 9 | The ground dipped and swayed beneath her ; she felt dizzy and clung to the rails , forcing herself to go down , to keep looking up , away from the void below . |
| 10 | A string of mucus hung from her left nostril and clung to the curve of her lipsticked mouth ; the waitresses kept looking across at the table . |
| 11 | Madge had offered to carry her bag but she drew away and clung to the bannister rail . |
| 12 | Charlotte stood on the spot where Maurice 's car had stood that morning and gazed to the north , her coat buttoned to the collar , scarf wound around her neck . |
| 13 | EIGHTY years ago tomorrow , on the night of 14/15 April 1912 , the ‘ unsinkable ’ passenger liner Titanic , steaming at high speed on her maiden transatlantic voyage , ran headlong into an iceberg off Newfoundland and plunged to the bottom of the ocean , taking more than 1,500 souls with her . |
| 14 | Twice stone broke off in his hand ; once a chunk of battlement fell and plunged to the ground . |
| 15 | That time lag is a feature that bedevils the software industry and led to the absurdity that the first generation 32-bit chip , the 80386 , had been superseded and obsoleted by the 80486 before there was a 32-bit desktop operating system available for the processor . |
| 16 | The first phase of the project was undertaken by two BGS staff and led to the publication in 1990 of a systematic inventory of the industrial minerals of the country . |
| 17 | In East Anglia , the efforts of the Bishop of Norwich , Matthew Wren , to enforce the new orders caused great resentment and led to the publication of the highly critical , anonymous tract , Newes from Ipswich . |
| 18 | But a bungled , unlawful business deal has so far cost them £5.3m and led to the sacking of all the BRDC 's 12 directors . |
| 19 | It made an immense difference to military operations in Africa , stimulated research for other virus vaccines , and led to the award , in 1951 , of a Nobel prize to the medical scientist Max Theiler ( 1899–1972 ) . |
| 20 | The demonstration , made in Canada , that diabetes resulted from malfunction of the pancreas was made as a result of experiments on dogs and led to the award of the Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1923 . |
| 21 | But these bright spots were dimmed by the assassination of the Western-orientated Hashemite royal family in Baghdad on 14th July 1958 during the Nasser-inspired coup , which ended Britain 's treaty relations with Iraq and led to the RAF 's withdrawal from the Habbaniyah and Shu'aiba air bases that lay on the air-reinforcement route to the Far East . |
| 22 | On Jan. 6 the government signed a peace agreement with Tuareg rebels , whose uprising had begun with an attack on a police station in June 1990 and led to the imposition of a state of emergency in the north of the country [ see pp. 37703 ; 37800 ] . |
| 23 | By contrast , inhibition of mannosidase I with DMJ reduced the molecular weight of several α chains and led to the expression of the smaller 105 kD pre-Β 1 chain on the cell surface . |
| 24 | Beginning in 1855 , and then especially in the early 1860s , he developed his theory of electromagnetism , which began with a model of tubes of force with complex mechanical analogies , and led to the idea that light was indeed an electromagnetic disturbance . |
| 25 | It was this fundamentally sound structure which made the game readily accessible to everyone in those unions and led to the South African game being so strong , so great , and so famous . |
| 26 | The discovery of mirror-image patterns of magnetic field reversal in rocks on the seabed off Iceland by Vine & Matthews reported in Nature in 1963 , combined with the earlier theoretical ideas and led to the concept of sea-floor spreading . |
| 27 | They have not won there since 1980 , when David Hodgson scored twice in a 2–0 win , and supporters recall the 1981 FA Cup quarter-final replay defeat that crushed Wembley hopes and led to the breakup of a brilliant side . |
| 28 | The Edwards Committee report in 1969 supported the concept of a ‘ second force airline ’ and ‘ dual designation ’ of routes ( ie having two British airlines on any given route ) and led to the formation of British Caledonian , as a result of a merger of two small independent airlines . |
| 29 | These strikes were successful in achieving their immediate aims and led to the formation of permanent unions of previously poorer workers , although as yet only a small proportion of them . |
| 30 | The Syrian stance during the weeks following the invasion effectively confirmed the country 's return to mainstream regional politics and led to the formation of a new close alignment between Syria and Egypt [ for recent improvement in Egyptian-Syrian relations see pp. 37471 ; 37626 ] . |