Example sentences of "and [vb pp] [adv prt] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If streets are to be seized from the dominance of ‘ canned ’ humans and given back to the ‘ fresh ’ ones , a commitment to a positive policy of encouraging walking throughout the city is inescapable . |
| 2 | You want er you want a letter carried by hand and given in to the hand of Douglas MacArthur ? |
| 3 | Then he crouched over it and squared up to an imaginary ball . |
| 4 | This is available as a white powder which is mixed with water and painted on to the concrete . |
| 5 | So too his message of the coming kingdom can not be lifted out and carried over to the present : that message was refuted when Jesus himself attempted to provoke the intervention of God and bring about the end of history by challenging the powers and authorities of his own day . |
| 6 | Had it not been for the activities of Lady Laetitia 's lover , bold Sir Rupert Cartland ( played by an odious young actor who 'd risen to prominence by playing a tough naval lieutenant in a television series ) making with the garlic and the wooden stakes ( a bit of vampire lore crept into the script ) , Lady Laetitia and her father would have been turned into zombies and carried back to the subterranean cave , where they would never be heard of again . |
| 7 | She was lifted bodily aboard by two sailors and carried down to a panelled cabin where she and Maria Candida were to live during the voyage ; and when she had been helped out of her clothes and into simpler garments that were more suited to life on board ship , she insisted upon going on deck to watch from the aftercastle as the mariners sang at the capstan and the anchors were weighed . |
| 8 | Rachaela walked into the area and squeezed up to the chest . |
| 9 | Young and fit and keyed in to the processes of organisational power . |
| 10 | Originally Salcey was part of the chain of Royal Hunting Forests that stretched from Stanford to Oxford and dated back to the days of William the Conqueror ( 1066 ) . |
| 11 | ‘ The Salmon 's Return ’ lay a quarter of a mile up-river , and dated back to the early seventeenth century , a long , low , white-painted house on a terrace cunningly clear of the flood level of the Comer , and with ideal fishing water for some hundreds of yards on either side of it . |
| 12 | The base tray is as deep as the corpse is high , the head section having been fashioned from a separate sheet of lead and soldered on to the main body of the shell . |
| 13 | Each table was fitted with transfusion stands and connected up to the piped oxygen laid on throughout Casualty . |
| 14 | you see we have to be a bit careful because what happens if we closed down right and transferred out to the field |
| 15 | Last night started out with spilt acid and built up to a pellmell slide down stairs , across motorways , into a baby shop , on out-of-control roller-skates . |
| 16 | Stephane Chapuisat is proud to be Swiss — and fed up to the teeth with being a loser . |
| 17 | The " furniture " was then to be arranged into a design for the room and drawn on to the grid . |
| 18 | I was escorted to the fifth floor and shown in to a riverside suite which was named after Sir Charles Chaplin , because he always used to stay there when he visited London . |
| 19 | ‘ They 're here , ’ Trent told Mariana and called back to the bedroom : ‘ Mister President … ’ |
| 20 | He raised his left hand briefly in a kind of silent salutation , then strode to the comer of the colonnade , leaving me with my formed words unspoken , and called back to the cottage . |
| 21 | Spooning the garlic and ginger paste into the snapper and over their skin , he dropped the first three fish on to the grill and called down to the other Latinos to bring plates and cutlery from the galley . |
| 22 | He went out on to the landing , opened a window , and called out to the crowd : ‘ What do you want ? who are you ? ’ |
| 23 | Jessamy eventually hauled herself out of bed and padded over to the window . |
| 24 | I slid out of bed , put on my dressing-gown and padded out to the tiny landing . |
| 25 | I shook my head , and she smiled and nodded and patted me on the shoulder and padded off to the kitchen . |
| 26 | Then , assuming the visitor was given a guided tour of the manor , he would then leave the kitchen and find the WC directly opposite the front door ; just a WC , no bath , no wash-hand basin , no toilet-paper , no mod-cons ; if he did wish to ‘ spend a penny ’ , well , yesterday 's newspaper was cut neatly into 6 inch squares and nailed on to a convenient wall . |
| 27 | ‘ As soon as we see the scripts , we start planning , look in our nasty books or ask Peter Salt our nursing advisor , ’ says Jan. skin for stitching scenes is made from a gelatine based substance which is coloured and moulded on to the actor . |
| 28 | This time he 's kept the somewhat wiggy feel and the one-liners but streamlined the satire and woken up to the necessities of plotting and dialogue . |
| 29 | They had woken in the morning , stiff and damp , rushed into the house to warm themselves in the huge old-fashioned bathtub , cooked an enormous breakfast and driven back to the city so Cameron could interview some visiting fireman from Washington . |
| 30 | He had left and walked back to the hotel , and by the time he reached it the police were waiting for him in the lobby . |