Example sentences of "and [verb] to [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I leant over Mum and whispered to Dad . |
| 2 | Chimbote was a dreadful place , litter everywhere and smelling to hell of oil . |
| 3 | This meant that changes in crime rates , or variations between different settings ( such as urban and rural ) , which had played an important part in theories relating social or economic conditions and change to crime , could equally well be explained by variations in crime-recording practices . |
| 4 | On Feb. 18 , 1990 , however , President Mobutu introduced emergency measures to revise the budget , stating that public spending would have to be cut and limited to priority areas . |
| 5 | In H. gallinarum all three parasitic moults appear to occur in the caecal lumen , but in H. isolonche infection the hatched larvae enter the caecal mucosa , and develop to maturity in nodules . |
| 6 | If infection is by ingestion the larvae may either penetrate the buccal mucosa an undergo the pulmonary migration described above or pass direct to the intestine and develop to patency . |
| 7 | Fraser dealt with this problem without difficulty and explained to Law in 1913 that " the importance of getting important speeches in advance is shown in concrete manner by your Wallsend speech on October 29th . |
| 8 | Steve Harris , a director who joined Medeva soon after Taylor , had experience of OTC and explained to Chemistry in Britain the rationale for this decision . |
| 9 | After centrifugation , chloroform phases were mixed and evaporated to dryness under nitrogen atmosphere . |
| 10 | The announcement immediately heightened the political tension in the country and led to speculation that Cristiani 's stance now reflected the views of extreme right-wing elements in the army and in his own Nationalist Republican Alliance ( Arena ) party . |
| 11 | It will come as no surprise to discover , then , that Spencer was highly critical of statutory intervention , arguing that it stifled liberty and led to rigidity and uniformity : ‘ Society , a living growing organism , placed within apparatuses of dead , rigid , mechanical formulas , can not fail to be hampered and pinched . ’ |
| 12 | The principal cause of the problem , however , was fertilizer run-XXXX off , which contaminated groundwater and led to eutrophication of surface water . |
| 13 | The idea attracted immense enthusiasm among all classes in Scotland , and led to disaster . |
| 14 | The 11 sufferers identified in the study said the smell blighted their relationships with the opposite sex , wrecked promotion prospects at work and led to addiction to cigarettes , alcohol and drugs . |
| 15 | The bends lie at the centres of the met boxes , and correspond to compression of the major groove to a width of 9.4 around the bound repressor β -ribbons , and opening of the opposite minor groove to 8.3 . |
| 16 | The victim was drowned and boiled to death at the same time . |
| 17 | A stepping-stone for many people is through the arts seen not just as providing means of expression but also as giving meaning and helping to structure experience . |
| 18 | As the brand leader for herbs and spices in the UK , Schwartz maintains its standards with rigorous quality screening at every stage of production , from detailed checking of crops and supplies to packaging in resealable jars . |
| 19 | Starting on dry land , there are 12 hard tennis courts , floodlit at night , two open-air squash courts and a daily programme of games and activities ranging from aerobics and trampolining to volleyball , basketball and table tennis . |
| 20 | In that play the lovers are wholly sensitive and communicate to perfection . |
| 21 | Many years ago , supermarket bread acquired a reputation which has proved almost impossible to shake off ; any colour you like as long as it is white , and probably thin sliced and steamed to boot . |
| 22 | One solution was to cut their losses and sell to television . |
| 23 | He says he will learn to be independent , how to drive a car and to go to work , everything a paralysed patient can do these days . |
| 24 | I had been remembering another rose garden lit by shafts of lightning and somebody telling me not to be afraid and to go to sleep . |
| 25 | She wants me to forget about the civil service and to go to university , ’ she said as soon as she got home . |
| 26 | We will ensure that a number of carefully selected children from poor homes , including perhaps even some children or grandchildren of immigrants , are allowed to succeed at school , and to go to university . |
| 27 | After some discussion , Paisley , Wylie , and Foster decided to refuse to pay their fines and to go to gaol . |
| 28 | In the heart of the press one or two died of suffocation , and many were ridden down and crushed to death under the horses ' feet . |
| 29 | Her brothers ' shirts and collars were always starched and ironed to perfection . |
| 30 | The blood is human and belongs to group A and to group M on the Landsteiner-Levine system . |