Example sentences of "and [vb past] to the " 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 … . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | A cold damp hung about the beechwood furniture and clung to the velour drapes . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 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 | Millicent Fawcett vehemently objected to family allowances becoming a feminist plank and clung to the typically nineteenth-century belief that allowances ‘ would destroy the fabric of family life by wiping out the responsibility of parents for the maintenance of their children ’ . |
| 11 | Madge had offered to carry her bag but she drew away and clung to the bannister rail . |
| 12 | Alone , she reached out and clung to the wooden balustrade . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | This was the theme tune at last month 's revolutionary rallies , where the crowds sang it with great gusto and clapped to the jaunty rhythm of its concluding lines . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Twice stone broke off in his hand ; once a chunk of battlement fell and plunged to the ground . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | The opportunities they offered to die engravers were limited by their small format and two-dimensionality , which caused difficulties and led to the adoption of some of the conventions that , as we have seen , can sometimes make their interpretation difficult . |
| 20 | After 1600 , there was a pause before the same issues emerged even more violently in the Civil War and led to the beheading of the king . |
| 21 | The Taunton Commission ( 1864–8 ) was critical of the impoverished inefficiency of Thame and led to the reform of Emanuel . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | It was first launched in 1944 by youth members of the ANC , who were impatient with the conservative approach of the leadership , and led to the adoption of a militant plan of action . |
| 24 | From AD 312 ‘ indiction cycles ’ of fifteen years ' duration were introduced by the Emperor Constantine for taxation purposes and led to the Byzantine year being reckoned from 1 September , the date on which each year of an indiction cycle began . |
| 25 | It was the two shots fired from this hand on that summer morning in the Balkans that ignited the smouldering embers of war in Europe and led to the fire that caused the conflagration that created the holocaust . |
| 26 | But Hardin was writing long before the avalanche of discoveries that have revealed the fine structure of the human genetic material , spawned sensitive techniques of screening and most recently pre-implantation diagnosis , and led to the first attempts at gene therapy . |
| 27 | Eleven such cases were reported in 1984 , in an influential article that has coloured the outlook of many doctors , and led to the belief that Meadow 's syndrome is quite common in relation to food sensitivity . |
| 28 | The collapse of this organisation created a multitude of problems and led to the rapid disintegration of the Soviet Union as a unitary superpower . |
| 29 | He accepts the widely held view that the development of mass-production industry produced a sharp deterioration in the conditions of manual work and led to the emergence of a type of worker who combined a generalised hostility to the prevailing society with a primary preoccupation with militant economic action ; but he suggests that , as technology continues to develop , the increased use of full automation will eliminate many of the deepest sources of resentment about work , and , in so doing , encourage normative integration within the existing social structure of the enterprise . |
| 30 | It is , however , a very special kind of autobiography , and may be compared to the accounts of their own lives which the early Methodists were expected to write at the time of their reception into the church : in such spiritual autobiographies divine visitations were singled out for special mention as evidences of God 's grace and power ; they were contrasted with laments over sinful behaviour and backsliding , and led to the culminating moment of conversion . |