Example sentences of "and [vb pp] to [pron] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By a strange twist of fate , the first Chilean to welcome Valenzuela to his new home in France was Castro , a ‘ Mirista ’ who was captured in broad daylight and stripped to his underwear back in December 1974 , while Valenzuela stood guard at the corner . |
| 2 | Fully discussed with and explained to your customer in advance to ensure they are clearly and fully understood , |
| 3 | It is here that your values and ideas about preparing children ( i.e. guiding and training them ) for life need to be worked out clearly and communicated to your youngster in the form of reasons . |
| 4 | I could almost see her come out of the water with her short hair glistening wet and pressed to her forehead . |
| 5 | ‘ Know yer will , me old soldier , ’ said Mrs Cousins , and departed to her kitchen . |
| 6 | In this chapter I will look at some of the literature that addresses itself to Mannheim 's sociology of knowledge — these writers are the inheritors of his work in the sense that they have read and responded to his ideas . |
| 7 | Allegations that residents with learning difficulties were physically abused and confined to their rooms were ‘ swept under the carpet ’ by health authority managers sitting on the board of Colchester-based Ling Trust , it was claimed . |
| 8 | The tribunal has heard from another former staff member that residents were sometimes punished with meals of bread and water and confined to their rooms , if they did n't conform to a strict regime . |
| 9 | Instead of thousands of offenders , inhumanely contained in Victorian slums , we would have thousands of offenders being punished in the community and confined to their homes . |
| 10 | Once married and committed to their partner , they may find excitement has flown out of the window . |
| 11 | But the eternal and temporal worlds met in the maintenance of rights given to the saints and committed to his guardianship . |
| 12 | Even before the revolution , however , and particularly under Tudor rule , the Privy Council had been largely ignored as too large and public a body , and the practice had grown up of the monarch preferring , instead , to seek advice from a smaller number of individuals whom he regarded as trustworthy and committed to his cause . |
| 13 | When he looked up and saw the charging buffalo , Joseph raised his Winchester in an instinctive reflex action and dropped to his knees . |
| 14 | Without waiting for Chuck he strode off in the direction taken by the herd , and halfway across the grassland he let out a roar and dropped to his knees . |
| 15 | However , Dame Margaret Verney of Claydon gave quite specific instructions in her will , drafted on 2 May 1639 and addressed to her son , Ralph . |
| 16 | Vision is a response to changing values in the intensity and wavelengths of light reflected on to the retina of our eye and transmitted to our brain by our optic nerves for decoding and interpretation . |
| 17 | Until we demonstrate that , the case for increasing expenditure on elderly people has to be very modest , and related to what evidence we have about whether it will improve their welfare . ’ |
| 18 | The allegations were all based on the opinion of another expert surveyor and related to what matters should or should not be taken into consideration . |
| 19 | The logical crisis went back to the time when he first started to read philosophy as an undergraduate and related to his reading of the English Idealist philosophers , as well as to his return ( for the purposes of passing his exams , and later as a tutor ) to the English empiricists of the eighteenth century . |
| 20 | The occasion will be marked by a series of exhibitions and other events taking place in Spain and abroad during the next nine months and related to his career , achievement and influence . |
| 21 | Cameron recognized several of his workment from Aberfeldy and warmed to their comradeship — he had talked little politics with them ( in the aftermath of the big treason trials , caution had seemed advisable ) but he had passed on his newspapers and one of the men came from Lochaber like himself . |
| 22 | As is traditional , the trophies which were won throughout the year had been saved for this occasion and presented to their recipients after dinner . |
| 23 | The wire was forced between his teeth , hauled back hard and secured to his ankles . |
| 24 | Alexander had smiled and risen to his feet to kiss her lightly on the cheek . |
| 25 | Will Douglas rose from his seat , and bowed to his uncle — and perforce all others must do likewise . |
| 26 | For waste collection in my workshop I use a Hoover Wet/Dry Powervac Super , fitted with a pleated paper drum filter and connected to my tools and machines with flexible hoses . |
| 27 | First night 's accommodation is prebooked for you and arrangements will be made for you to be met at the airport on arrival and transferred to your hotel . |
| 28 | As the light faded she left the office and returned to her room , where she changed into a more attractive dress and attended to her make-up . |
| 29 | Catering entrepreneurs will have three choices : first , to take over an existing catering establishment as a going concern and adapt the premises as they see fit ; secondly , to convert already existing premises to be used as a catering establishment , such premises being derelict or presently used for some other purpose ; and thirdly , to have purpose-built premises designed by an architect and built to their specifications . |
| 30 | She described the extraordinary tameness of the animals in the wild game parks and conveyed to her audience the beauty of the scenery . |